Our fascination with end times might be partly down to one of our many cognitive biases
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Everything Must Go
Dorian Lynskey (Picador, UK; Pantheon, US, November 2024)
To the surprise of almost no one, the big winner at the Academy Awards last month was Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan’s biopic of the father of the atomic bomb. The film’s success speaks to our age-old obsession with end times. Be it fire, flood or pestilence, humanity has always fantasised about its doom.
In Everything Must Go: The stories we tell about the end of…
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