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The Saturday Rumpus Review: Mad Max: Fury Road
But of course, our world isn’t actually dead yet. This is fiction, and we’re watching a movie.
This Is The End, Beautiful Friend
The rapture may have been a bust, but our obsession with the apocalypse shows no signs of letting up. NPR’s Jason Heller explains why post-apocalyptic fiction will stand the test…
The 1906 Novel That Predicted the Future
…what makes “The Doomsman” fascinating is its vision of an abandoned New York City as “a wilderness of brick and mortar”—a land where the Financial District is ruled by owls,…
The Post-Apocalyptic Present
For a smart writer, a ravaged future world also offers something like a perfect literary playground, a cleared field where everything from language to human psychology to social convention can…
Ryan Boudinot’s New Book
Rumpus columnist/ writer, Ryan Boudinot is interviewed by Steve Barker on episode 1 of his podcast “Ordinary Madness,” in which he talks about his new book Blueprints of the Afterlife,…