Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell about the End of the World
This is a book that would have lost none of its erudition or energy had it been 25 percent shorter. But Lynskey also happens to be a terrifically entertaining writer, with a requisite sense of gallows humor.
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Weirdly, the book isn’t depressing, partly, I suppose, because these disasters haven’t completely wiped us out (yet). The clever and insightful writing of Lynskey, a British cultural historian and podcaster, also helps it to avoid being a downer ... His book shows that exciting intellectual history isn’t an oxymoron. These works combine sharp writing with capacious research, rigorous thinking, interesting mini-narratives within the larger story and well-drawn character portraits.
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A heady critical history of the depictions of Armageddon, our current-day mania for disaster has plenty of precedent ... Fascinating ... Lynskey writes engagingly, moves briskly between subjects and collates a great deal of information with minimal filler. One is impressed, and even reassured, throughout Everything Must Go, by the orderly bookkeeping imposed on this catalog of nightmares.
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