Blue Nights by Joan Didion: “...trying to locate a line I believed to be from Claude Lévi-Strauss's Tristes Tropiques but was never able to find: 'The tropics are not exotic, they are merely out of date.'”
Against Interpretation and Other Essays by Susan Sontag: “I mean the incomparable Tristes Tropiques, a book that became a bestseller when published in France in 1955...”