The Water in the Wood
the apocalypse is always easier to imagine than the strange circuitous routes to what actually comes next.
Rebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
there’s always something. I think, as a species, we have a desire to believe that we’re living at the climax of the story. It’s a kind of narcissism. We want to believe that we’re uniquely important, that we’re living at the end of history, that now, after all these millennia of false alarms, now is finally the worst that it’s ever been, that final
... See moreEmily St. John Mandel • Sea of Tranquility: A novel
“the sense that a detour can easily become a life”
— Raven Leilani
It may help, too, to be honest about what is already here. “Sower” is about a future on fire, but the author’s present was on fire, too. We can’t always be looking toward the future. The climate disaster isn’t coming. It has been upon us for years—at this point, most of the years that I’ve been alive. The crises are here, and they are speeding alon... See more
Hanif Abdurraqib • Lessons for the End of the World
Sometimes people drift in and out of your life, and the real agony is fighting it. You can gulp down an awful lot of seawater, trying to change the tides.
Sarah Hepola • Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget
the sense that everything ends and all is impermanent