A new & exhilarating collection of writings from the author of The Infatuations & A Heart So White. Internationally renowned writer Javier Marias is a tireless examiner of the world around us, an enthusiastic debunker of pretensions of every kind, & a true polymath. This new collection of essays shows the full extent of his curiosity & wit, ranging from the literary to the philosophical to the autobiographical, from football to cinema, comic books to mortality to ` Why Almost No One Can Be Trusted`. Trenchant & wry, subversive & penetrating, Marias demonstrates a dazzling intellectual vigour, showing with exhilarating verve why he is so often said to be Spain`s greatest living writer.