“Everything Must Go” has a fascinating section on what Mr. Lynskey labels “impact fiction,” pioneered by Edgar Allan Poe in an 1839 short story, eventually given the title “The ...

But as Dorian Lynskey demonstrates in “Everything Must Go,” a heady critical history of the depictions of Armageddon, our current-day mania for disaster has plenty of precedent. The end of the ...

In “Everything Must Go,” Dorian Lynskey surveys the impressive number of people who have done this envisioning, often in strikingly similar language. He begins with the biblical Revelation of ...