I’m not talking about the elections. I’m talking about literal disasters like fires, floods, earthquakes, wars.
Or rather — other people are talking about those things, and I’ve written the reviews.
Rebecca Solnit has written a remarkable book about the creative and sometimes inspiring ways people have responded to disasters over the last hundred or so years. The book is called A Paradise Built in Hell, and I reviewed it for Socialism and Democracy back in July. (It’s not on the web, I’m afraid.)
Around the same time, I wrote a review of Garth Ennis’ Crossed, Volume One — a comic about a plague that eliminates inhibitions and amplifies cruelty. It appeared on The Comics Journal site in August.
At popculturebomb.com, you can also read a review of my review of Crossed. (Spoiler: They didn’t like it.)