Adam Begley

In the grip of apocalypse angst

Dorian Lynskey lays out the many ways in which we have imagined the world ending – through pandemic, nuclear holocaust, climate change, asteroid impact or, most unnervingly, AI

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issue 06 April 2024

  • Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell About the End of the World

    Dorian Lynskey

    Picador, pp. 496, £25

You have to love a book about the end of the world in which the first two references are to Saul Bellow’s Herzog and the HBO series The White Lotus, a high/low combo that preps us for authorial omniscience. In the next few paragraphs we get Marc Maron, Sally Rooney and Frank Kermode.

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