Getting Lost in Books

In The Cloud of Unknowing, Tom Lutz—a writer, literary critic, and founder of the Los Angeles Review of Books—invites us to consider “what it means to be lost, to be aimless,” and to recognize the “import and subtleties” of uncertainty. 

In this series, Tom explores the nature of unknowing through travel stories, childhood anecdotes, and reflections on various authors, poets, and philosophers. His essays, he says, can be thought of as an “attitude toward experience, a way of walking through the world that maintains a useful humility about what we know and a corresponding openness to what we do not.”