<p><em>Head in Flames</em> is an astonishing collage novel composed of chips of sensation, observation, memory, and quotation shaped into a series of narraticules told by three alternating voices, each inhabiting a different font and aesthetic / political / existential space.</p><p>The first belongs to Vincent van Gogh on the day he shot himself in Auverssur-Oise in July 1890. The second to Theo van Gogh (Vincent&rsquo;s brother&rsquo;s great grandson) on the day he was assassinated in Amsterdam in November 2004. The third to Mohammed Bouyeri, Theo&rsquo;s murderer, outraged by the filmmaker&rsquo;s collaboration with controversial politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali on a 10-minute experimental short critiquing Muslim subjugation and abuse of women.</p><p>The aggregate: a restless, haunting exploration of art&rsquo;s purpose, religion&rsquo;s increasingly dominant role as engine of politics and passion, the complexities of foreignness and assimilation, and the limits of tolerance.</p>