A famous quote about insanity, usually attributed to Albert Einstein — that it can be defined as “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results” — actually dates to 1980, appearing in different forms in materials published by Narcotics Anonymous .

Your Name Here , the long-gestating meta-autofictional epic from cult literary hero Helen DeWitt and journalist and first-time author Ilya Gridneff, evokes that feeling in both its lofty and prosaic origins. Pinwheeling through lengthy direct-address second-person passages, multiple novels within the novel, a series of emails between the two authors, a series of emails between fictionalized versions of the two authors, infographics, Arabic text, and the occasional enigmatic photograph of Marcello Mastroianni, Tom

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