Contemplating curtail call …

… Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell About the End of the World by Dorian Lynskey - review by Mark Blacklock. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Evidently, the time is ripe for a survey of the branch of cultural production concerned with the end of the world. And yet, as Lynskey points out, tales have been told about it for as long as we’ve been doing story.