You Dreamed of Empires by Alvaro Enrigue is part historical novel (the reimagined meeting of Cortes and Montezuma) and part satire, presented in a hallucinatory maze of magic mushrooms. The book got rave reviews from literary critics, but at times I had trouble sorting out the Aztec names and politics. The book is meta and self-consciously clever. Here’s a collection of reviews in Book Marks: