🎭 Culture Jul 3, 2026 · Meg Charlton

7 Books That Blur the Boundary Between Fact and Fiction

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7 Books That Blur the Boundary Between Fact and Fiction
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Once, very stoned around a campfire, I asked my friends what fire was. One scientifically minded member of the group offered a dutiful-if-also-stoned explanation about chemical bonds and oxidation; it left me totally unsatisfied. “No,” I said. “But what is it?”







Everyone laughed. The whole thing became a long-running joke, and rightly so. But I stand by my original question. It brings to mind a line from John Berger’s Ways of Seeing: “The relation between what we see and what we know is ne

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