Seeing Further, Esther Kinsky’s follow-up to her polyphonic ecological novel Rombo, presents readers with only a single voice, that of a keenly perceptive narrator who stumbles upon a dilapidated movie theater while traveling through Hungary’s Great Alföld. She soon embarks on the colossal (and somewhat quixotic) task of renovating the theater in an attempt to preserve a shared way of seeing. For isn’t that what we’re losing with the collapse of moviegoing? “The cinema used to have presence,” the narrator writes, “it had weight in almost everyone’s life, not as an exceptional experience, but as a commonplace in a less privatized world that first the television invaded bit by bit, and later the permanent accessibility of private screens caused to fully unravel.” An ode to the cinema as a space of collective imagining, and containing nearly four dozen black-and-white photos, Seeing Further is out today!