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 ...

The essayist playfully contrasts the apocalyptic, fundamentalist worldviews of her childhood with the teeming abundance of ...

CIA declassified a book titled The Adam and Eve Story, revealing Chan Thomas's controversial theories on ancient cataclysms.

A book once classified by the CIA, The Adam and Eve Story by Chan Thomas, has resurfaced after more than f ive decades, igniting renewed interest in its dire predictions. Thomas’ work, a mix of ...

Clay McLeod Chapman kept hearing friends say, of their Fox News-watching parents, “It’s like they were possessed.” That’s ...

A new book by the British cultural journalist Dorian Lynskey chronicles our centuries-old obsession with doomsday scenarios.

From A Handmaid's Tale (McClelland and Stewart, 1985) to The Hunger Games (Scholastic, 2008), most dystopian novels tend to set their apocalypse in an undisclosed future from the time they were ...