Foolishly, I started December (Dezember. 39 Geschichten. 39 Bilder, 2010; tr. from the German by Martin Chalmers, 2012) after midnight, thinking I'd just give it a glance before starting it in earnest in the next day or so. What I found was so interesting, the structure so reader-friendly, the photographs by Gerhard Richter so captivating, I kept thinking, [...]