Good Failures
Geoff Mann: With a Whimper, 22 January 2026
Everything Must Go: Why We Are Obsessed with the End of the World
by Dorian Lynskey.
Picador, 500 pp., £12.99, April 2025,978 1 5290 9595 1 Show More
by Dorian Lynskey.
Picador, 500 pp., £12.99, April 2025,
Hopeful Pessimism
by Mara van der Lugt.
Princeton, 255 pp., £20, March 2025,978 0 691 26560 5 Show More
by Mara van der Lugt.
Princeton, 255 pp., £20, March 2025,
“... Contemporary fictions are preoccupied with apocalypse, human extinction and cataclysm, but as Dorian Lynskey makes clear in Everything Must Go: Why We Are Obsessed with the End of the World, this is nothing new. Secular eschatology is young compared to its millennial Christian variations, but it still has a history two centuries ... ”
