Everything Must Go The Stories We Tell About The End Of The World Dorian Lynskey by Dorian Lynskey 9780593317099, 9780593317105, 0593317092, 0593317106 instant download after payment.

As Dorian Lynskey writes, “People have been contemplating the end of the world for millennia.” In this immersive and compelling cultural history, Lynskey reveals how religious prophecies of the apocalypse were secularized in the early 19th century by Lord Byron & Mary Shelley in a time of dramatic social upheaval & temporary climate change, inciting a long tradition of visions of the end without gods.

With a discerning eye and acerbic wit, Lynskey examines how various doomsday tropes & predictions in literature, art, music, & film have arisen from contemporary anxieties, whether they be comets, pandemics, world wars, the Cuban Missile Crisis, Y2K, or the climate emergency. Far from being grim, Lynskey guides readers through a rich array of fascinating stories & surprising facts, allowing us to keep company with celebrated works of art & the people who made them, from H.G. Wells, Jack London, W.B. Yeats, & J.G. Ballard to The Twilight Zone, Dr. Strangelove, Mad Max, & The Terminator.

Prescient and original, Everything Must Go is a brilliant, sweeping work of history that provides many astute insights for our times & speaks to our urgent concerns for the future.

°°°

Dorian Lynsky is the author of 33 Revolutions Per Minute: A History of Protest Songs (2011) and The Ministry of Truth: A Biography of George Orwell’s 1984 (2019). His writing on music, film, books, & politics has appeared in various publications including The Guardian, The New Statesman, The Spectator, BBC Culture, The Los Angeles Times, & Slate.