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dystopia
November 7, 2022
Tori Otten
Foreign Tourists Are Paying Money to Watch the Collapse of Our Democracy This Election
The tourists were reportedly spotted at a GOTV event in Philadelphia.
January 28, 2022
Magazine
Siddhartha Deb
The Smallness of Hanya Yanagihara’s Maximalist Novel
“To Paradise” shows little interest in the big questions it asks.
December 29, 2020
Magazine
Alexander Chee
Life in the Post-Internet Dystopia
Don DeLillo’s and Jonathan Lethem’s new novels imagine the end of electronic communication.
June 10, 2020
Jennifer Wilson
The Down Days
Is an Eerily Prescient Pandemic Novel
When Ilze Hugo started writing about an outbreak, she thought she was imagining a far-fetched dystopia.
October 12, 2018
Jane Hu
The Office at the End of the World
Ling Ma’s novel ‘Severance’ likens life under capitalism to a zombie apocalypse.
March 14, 2018
Becca Rothfeld
J.G. Ballard’s Eerily Accurate Dystopias
His novels “Crash” and “Super-Cannes” depict a world of tech-enhanced luxury and crushing malaise.
January 12, 2018
Jo Livingstone
Welcome to Hell
Season four of "Black Mirror" examines life as a kind of imprisonment.
June 23, 2017
Sarah Marshall
Blood Drive
Misses Out on Everything Good About Gore
SyFy's new series shows how much potential dystopian TV can have—by fulfilling none of it.
November 10, 2015
Jeet Heer
The New Utopians
Kim Stanley Robinson and the novelists who want to build a better future through science fiction.
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