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 ...

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

It’s 40 years since Anita Brookner won the Booker Prize for her slender novel Hotel du Lac. The awards were televised back ...

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 ...

ESSAYS The Position of Spoons and other intimacies Deborah Levy Hamish Hamilton, $45. The diminished space criticism enjoys ...

Levy’s new book is a joyful anachronism ... Paying homage to British badass J.G. Ballard – with particular reference to Why I Want to F--- Ronald Reagan – Levy riffs on another post ...

A literary history of our fascination with apocalypse and armageddon suggests that predictions of doomsday have always been ...

Documentaries aside, architects and architecture have served varied, but particular roles in film: The art of architecture, when spotlighted, is frequently used to metaphorically reflect what's ...

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 ...