What if the afterlife is just as uneventful as this one? Three fictions—two films, one novel—imagine the hereafter as a monotonous slog through the same old nonsense.
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Every week Carl Wilson looks at the events of the past seven days in the mirror of art and culture. This week: Farewell to Springhill, Nova Scotia.
In Nancy Lee’s new novel The Age, young Gerry is driven to extremism by both standard teen angst and a generation-specific “nuclear anxiety.” We talk to Lee about the book, and growing up between the Vietnam War and the fall of the Berlin Wall.
The crisis in Ukraine has been framed as a clash of civilizations. But the very concept of “civilization” gets fuzzier the more you examine it, and may not help to illuminate real-world conflict.
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