A Möbius strip is a looped, one-sided surface without boundaries, which a 2021 Scientific American article describes as “an artist’s reverie and a mathematician’s feat.” It’s a non-orientable surface; within it, clockwise and counterclockwise are indistinguishable, and any object taking a journey on the surface of the strip will, if it goes far enough, end up back where it started.
The Möbius Book (FSG), Catherine Lacey’s visceral, slippery new work, has identical, flipped covers…

