Secret Societies gives voice to that which normally takes special care to stay as hidden as possible. A mood, a person, an obsession, a perception, are seen to be events or presences that carry within them the urgency of a tirelessly ramifying possibility, a labyrinth which the writing seeks to negotiate. The book is divided into five sections: the secret histories of public events, the allure and terror of memory, the silence of the dead, the effort of making, and the longing for atonement.