Review: John Banville on Darkness

Watchman, what of the night? the prophet Isaiah anxiously inquired, and got a dusty answer from the lookout post atop the walls of Seir. Johan Eklöf, a Swedish scientist specializing in the ways and wiles of the bat, has made his own study of the night and has more definite things to tell us than the lookout’s equivocal “the morning cometh, and also the…