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 vander Lugt.
Princeton, 255 pp., £20, March 2025,978 0 691 26560 5 Show More
by Mara vander Lugt.
Princeton, 255 pp., £20, March 2025,
“... we must not ‘give in’ to despair or doubt, indeed that it would be a moral failure to do so.Mara vander Lugt’s Hopeful Pessimism is an extended dismantling of this common sense. It is a book of political philosophy addressed, maybe more narrowly than she intends, to self-identified climate ... ”
