Dorian Lynskey’s witty Everything Must Go explores the last human tale.
Any stories we tell about the end of the world will have to be fictional, since once the real thing occurs, no one will be around to describe it. As the British journalist Dorian Lynskey relates in his erudite, delightfully witty, and strangely cheering new book,
the fact that we can only ever speculate on the subject makes us speculate all the more frantically. “There is simply no end of ends,” Lynskey writes of the books, movies, TV shows, pop songs, and video games we’ve created to depict the apocalypse—or its near misses and the aftermaths thereof.is often described as “postapocalyptic,” but as Lynskey points out, the more accurate term would be “postcatastrophic.
This is the paradoxical effect of all of our talk about the end of the world: Every day that the worldin which the character Harper explains that she’s having trouble sleeping on her luxury resort vacation because of her anxiety about “Just, like, the end of the world.” As Lynskey notes, “More than ever, the surest way to be praised for speaking to the times is to say that the times are awful. It can seem almost unserious to believe that things are not getting irreversibly worse.
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