Ramblings in the West: Footnotes

A sprawling epic of Western civilization where Greek theater, Marxist thought, British imperialism and American football collide

In Ramblings in the West, the third of Max Yeh's book-length "pseudo-fictions," time and space collapse into a continuous, digressive stream where the giants of the past become everyday people. Lying on his couch while his back heals, the unnamed narrator imagines his life as a travel memoir in the mode of Herodotus, Montesquieu or Goldsmith. He does so through the...