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 — ...

Post-apocalyptic fiction is nothing new: The genre has a history stretching back at least 200 years. Research has linked spikes in perceived threats to humanity to surges in the popularity of ...

Classic books like The Stand, I Am Legend, and Lucifer's Hammer are all up there among the very best works of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Masked people standing six feet apart. Empty shelves in the supermarket. No children in sight outside the school during recess. So what, exactly, does pandemic fiction offer readers? My doctoral ...

From “A Conversation About Trees,” which appeared in the Summer 2021 issue of The Sewanee Review. I set out here to construct an argument about “nature poetry,” in order eventually… Apocalypses are ...