The Northern Line: Stories by Mike Lee, Atmosphere Press, 2021 Reviewed by MK Sturdevant “I could see the hole. I knew it was a plane.”— from “The Details of Time” I made a decade-long career out of understanding and teaching seventeenth-century early modern philosophy. I know exactly what to say about the year 1641, but until reading Mike Lee’s collection of stories, I had no idea what to say about 2002, or 1997, or 1988, years in which I actually existed (a category of exi