Any stories we tell about the end of the world will have to be fictional, since once the real thing occurs, no one will be ...

And, of course, escapism is a supply-and-demand business. As the world requires more of the people in it, it also offers more ...

The end of the world, it’s no surprise, has been a longstanding obsession. Mr. Lynskey’s book “The Ministry of Truth” (2019) ...

Author Dorian Lynskey explores why writers have long imagined and written about the end of the world (and why readers come ...

Mr. Trump is trying to remake the world in his image – suspicious of friends, disdainful of allies, hostile to rules and ...

We can take a little comfort, perhaps, in the fact that envisioning the end of the world and/or humanity is nothing new. In ...

We’ll have to wait and see if any other Hollywood-esque research predicting the end of the world from AI systems occurs.

A new book by the British cultural journalist Dorian Lynskey chronicles our centuries-old obsession with doomsday scenarios.