The Stories We Tell About The End of The World,” Dorian Lynskey cites a 2020 poll in which nearly 60 percent of young ...

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

Humans love to imagine their own demise.

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From raging fires to a politician promising to Make America Great Again - Octavia Butler's novels are eerily prophetic.

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 is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly ... dread of our own individual extinction by imagining a broader apocalypse. If the world collapses entirely, we won’t have ...