As the British journalist Dorian Lynskey relates in his erudite, delightfully witty, and strangely cheering new book, ...

What happens when the world ends and only a handful of survivors remain? Post-apocalyptic books attempt to answer that question, examining how life can go on under the most extreme conditions and ...

Knopf, 2006); the book does not explain the calamity that ... One way to read the post-apocalyptic aspect of the novel is as an expression of how difficult indigenous resurgence is in present ...

This completism stunts the book’s impact and leaves less room than I’d like for today’s most pressing, and primal, fears of an apocalypse ushered in by our phones, their apps, and our ...