In Stranger Than We Can Imagine, John Higgs argues that before 1900, history seemed to make sense. We can understand innovations like electricity, agriculture, and democracy. The twentieth century, in contrast, gave us relativity, cubism, quantum mechanics, the id, existentialism, Stalin, psychedelics, chaos mathematics, climate change, and postmodernism.To understand such disoriented ideas, Higgs shows the need to shift the framework of interpretation of these concepts within the context of a new kind of historical narrative.Higgs writes in a way that is more playful than demanding while getting one's head around contemporary reality.This is a readable and charming set of vignettes about the 20th century when the weirdness started.