I will leave you with my favorite factoid that I learned from this book, which is that Berthold Brecht and Walter Benjamin were at one point planning to co-write Marxist detective novels together and got as far as a first chapter and an outline. I want to live in the universe where I get to read that book.

Well, now I really really want someone to write a historical detective novel wherein Berthold Brecht and Walter Benjamin are trying to co-write their Marxist detective novel when a corpse is discovered and together they have to try to solve the murder mystery, etc. etc..