"Mad scribblings" (WaPo title) is terrifically offensive – and misleading. If they were incoherent and inconsequential, why review the new book that collects his late notebook writings? The review is favorable. I'm guessing someone other than the reviewer wrote the headline.
Coming from WAPO (owned by Bezos), this article can only be seen as an attempt to frame the narrative as Baudelaire and his contemporaries become hot in the "Theorygram" universe.