Crepuscule

The half-light before dark

Notes from the reading hour, whatever the book.

What I read in the half-light, and where it leads. One book always pulls on another.


20 Jun 2026 · ★★★½

Lázár

Nelio Biedermann (tr. Jamie Bulloch)

A wunderkind's debut: the slow decline of a Hungarian aristocratic family, told in lush, dreamlike strokes — gorgeous, if you forgive the pace.

Literary fictionHistoricalFamily saga

19 Jun 2026

What this is

Ruben

A note on what this place is for — reading without a plan, and following the threads wherever they lead.

Notes