Apocalypse TM

The stories we have about apocalypse don’t seem to take in how they are actually happening in real time. So what are they even for?

Victor Vasnetsov’s Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, through Wikipedia Commons

I have a new essay at the New Republic, a review of the new novels by Don DeLillo and Jonathan Lethem. I wrote about how their novels seem to describe different parts of the same apocalypse — the DeLillo describing the day…