In recent years, we have seen an epic scale of destruction caused by war, terrorism, global warming, famine and the obliteration of human cultural artifacts. These events could be considered ...

What do John of Patmos, Mary Shelley, and George A. Romero have in common? Each is responsible for an apocalypse. Stories about the world ending have been around almost as long as written literature — ...

As part of the University of Iowa course Art at the End of the World, students will lead an open book club that seeks to provide stimulating conversation about apocalyptic literature. Every Wednesday ...

What happens when the world ends and only a handful of survivors remain? Post-apocalyptic books attempt to answer that question, examining how life can go on under the most extreme conditions and ...

This is the second of four excerpts being presented by BrandeisNOW from James Carroll's new book "Jerusalem, Jerusalem: How the Ancient City Ignited Our Modern World." The book is a centerpiece of the ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to László Krasznahorkai, a Hungarian novelist who said his dark and difficult novels aim to examine reality “to the point of madness.”Announcing the ...

pt. 1. New worlds for old: The apocalyptic imagination, science fiction, and American literature: Science fiction ; A prophecy of America, the moon, and Mars -- pt. 2. Other worlds: Other worlds out ...

THE apocalypse has proved fertile ground for writers of popular fiction. In “The Day of the Triffids” (1951), John Wyndham saw mankind’s end hastened by perambulating carnivorous plants; Stephen King ...

Modernity is a wounded animal. It can scrape its knees crawling away, but there is a trail of blood and bones and doom behind each motion. There is an inexplicable dread, disorientation and anxiety ...