Children of the Magenta

Children of the Magenta

Review: The Book of Memory

Review of The Book of Memory: Or, How to Live Forever by Mark Rowlands

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Sami Makelainen
Mar 30, 2026
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What if the most reliable thing about your memories is that they’re wrong?

I’ve spent a lot of time in my life thinking about how humans reconstruct events after the fact — in revisionist history of our personal lives, in incident investigations, in organisations trying to learn from failure.

Memory is always at the centre of it. We build narratives. We f…

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