19 June 2019
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The word “apocalypse” comes from the Greek “apokalupsis,” which means “to reveal.” While the results of an apocalyptic revelation often mean destruction, destitution and death, the means by which a doom finds its day is subject to all kinds of social variables and interpersonal quagmires; Brian Evenson’s latest collection Song for the Unraveling of the World addresses these latter features of the end times incisively, harnessing the terror of the peripherally ever-present and out-of-reach.
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