In his new book “Everything Must Go,” Dorian Lynskey recounts two millennia of apocalyptic predictions. Amazingly, it’s not ...

At Dark, I Become Loathsome” tells the story of a man whose grief over the loss of his family, and struggle with accepting ...

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

It’s the tail end of January, the month of resolutions made and broken, gym memberships purchased and fitness classes left ...

Author Dorian Lynskey explores why writers have long imagined and written about the end of the world (and why readers come ...

Some fear we’ll be buried in brimstone; others expect to be extinguished by A.I. But is there comfort to be found in our ...

The 1994 Met Gala theme brought together themes of East Asian cultural fashion together with Western style. It was the last ...

Mr. Lynskey’s book “The Ministry of Truth” (2019 ... or the “cataclysm novels” of J.G. Ballard, where destruction is an agent of rebirth. Excitement, however morbid, is a large part of the End Times ...

J G Ballard’s new novel is as the title implies a psychopathic ... by the police – one is back with the solitary figure characteristic of all Ballard’s books, whose vision supports a universe. Ballard ...

A game played by all of us who work at the literary end of the book trade, and I expect by mere consumers too ... from the second, J. G. Ballard. The latter of course doesn’t really fit my second ...

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