Just 'Follow This Thread': You're Meant To Get Lost In This Book About Mazes
Henry Eliot's book takes twists and turns through history, philosophy, myth and pop culture. He says mazes are just like life — except that at the end you can turn around and do it all over again.
by Ari Shapiro
Mar 13, 2019
3 minutes
Henry Eliot's new book about mazes and labyrinths is a printer's worst nightmare. Follow This Thread is both a title and an instruction: To read the book, you must turn it upside down and backwards. Lines of text wrap 90 degrees on the page, and a thin red thread — illustrations by the French artist Quibe — travels playfully from page to page.
Believe it or not, this is the "reined in" version.
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