In the essays comprising the book *The Stone of Madness*, Chilean writer Benjamín Labatut continues the theme he began in his bestseller *When We Cease to Understand the World*: despite humanity’s drive for rationality, scientific advancement, and progress, the contours of reality are blurring before our eyes, and the world is unfolding as an unfathomable chaos whose logic is accessible only to the madman. Responding to the events of recent years—the pandemic, the rise of artificial intelligence, and protests in Chile and elsewhere—Labatut reflects on the causes of the current crisis of narratives, which have collapsed under the onslaught of the relentless arrival of the new. As the world grows ever stranger, the scientific approach—cold facts and figures—can no longer serve as the sole key to understanding; perhaps, to avoid waking up one day inside a nightmare, we need to pay closer heed to our wildest dreams.