Tiny humans travel these stairs and bridges nonetheless, trapped for eternity. Dark brain, indeed. Piranesi heightens the fear with an ant's-eye perspective. We're at the bottom of this dungeon ...

Even its sharp design, by Mathias Clottu, subtly advances Tschudi’s ideas. The deep gray fabric of its cover recalls the dark, textured hatching of Piranesi prints; into this is inscribed a title ...

I’ve always thought of Piranesi as having a kind of haunted relationship to the grandeur of the past. Not so much the obsessively labyrinthine “dark brain” of Marguerite Yourcenar but rather ...

Ari Shapiro's is Piranesi by Susanna Clarke ... It's All Geek to Me and The Dark Side. The Concierge is at npr.org.

Piranesi, the novel and man both, are luxuriously enigmatic and the labyrinthine House they inhabit is intoxicating. This novel is an enchanting, dark, multilayered offering that more than lives ...