Those literary savants over at BookWoman host both an in-person and Zoom discussion of English author Susanna Clarke’s latest. Now here’s a twist on the “haunted” house, where our protagonist Piranesi is the spirit winding through the halls of this infinite abode. He makes sure the old gods are served, that he avoids floods or crashing waves, and to maintain a good relationship with The Other, a man who presents himself as the holder of all knowledge. But Piranesi’s carefully structured beliefs – in the house, in the gods, in himself – all get shaken when a new visitor comes into his labyrinthine world. Good for those who enjoy bigger-inside-than-outside building stories but prefer standard, non-Danielewskian typesetting. – James Scott