Flying Saints

Yale historian Carlos Eire takes them seriously. Also: the trials ahead

Oct 06, 2023

∙ Paid

On the same day, three different people sent me a link to the new book They Flew: A History Of The Impossible by the Yale historian Carlos Eire, who once won the National Book Award. I bought a Kindle version and devoured it this week. Wow! Wow, wow, wow. It’s a serious book about levitation, bilocation, and related phenomena.

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