Thursday, May 31, 2012

From NewStatesman: Why American writers are obsessed with apocalypse

http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/culture/2012/04/living-end-times


Living in the end times

Why American writers are obsessed with apocalypse.

BY BEN MARCUS

"Nothing of the 9/11 attacks even remotely suggested an apocalypse but they certainly helped expose the troubling fiction of our immortality. Which might mean that fictions of our end times are now, through bad luck or comeuppance, however you wish to view it, among the truest and most realistic stories that we can tell."

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