![]() ![]() Wilson Tucker, The Long Loud Silence (1952)Įverything east of the Mississippi has been destroyed by a nuclear attack the scant survivors have been dosed with a bioweapon that has infected them with the plague (just to be safe, I suppose). Of course, there are plenty more great apocalypse and post-apocalypse novels that didn’t fit on this list, and I haven’t read enough books in translation in this genre, so as ever, please add on your own favorites in the comments. We could argue all day about what actually constitutes an “apocalypse”-2020 is checking a lot of boxes, as you may have noticed-so for the most part, I’ve gone with my gut. I’ve done my best to limit this list to books in which there is-or has been-some kind of literal apocalypse, excluding dystopias (like The Handmaid’s Tale) or simply bleak visions of the future. Humans have been pondering the end of existence for as long as we’ve been aware of it (probably, I mean, I wasn’t there), and as a result we have a rich collection of apocalypse and post-apocalypse literature to read during our planet’s senescence. After all, someone must survive to tell the tale. ![]() The end of the world is never really the end of the world-at least not in fiction. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The story of A Tribe Called Quest is, from a certain vantage, heartbreaking. His love for the group is infectious, even when it breaks his heart. He has a seemingly limitless capacity to share what moves him, which means that to read Go Ahead in the Rain, you don't need to be a Tribe Called Quest fan: Abdurraqib will make you one. Here, he takes that skill up yet another notch. In his two previous books, The Crown Ain't Worth Much and They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us, Abdurraqib demonstrated his expertise at compressing massive emotions into minimal space. Go Ahead in the Rain is at once an extended critical essay, a hip-hop history, and a series of love letters to A Tribe Called Quest, and particularly to the group's two star MCs, Q-Tip and Phife Dawg. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the beginning before the beginning, there were drums, and hymns, and a people carried here." 'Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest' by Hanif AbdurraqibĪbdurraqib unspools history from here, carrying the reader through centuries of African-American music-making in a capacious few pages that end with the 1990 release of A Tribe Called Quest's first album, People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm. Like any good origin story, poet and critic Hanif Abdurraqib's Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest begins in the beginning: "In the beginning, somewhere south of anywhere I come from, lips pressed the edge of a horn. ![]() ![]() ![]() Using the only resource she has to pay the brilliant musician back, Holland gets Calvin an audition with her uncle, Broadway’s hottest musical director. Calvin Mcloughlin rescues her, but quickly disappears when the police start asking questions. Lacking the nerve to actually talk to the gorgeous stranger, fate steps in one night in the form of a drunken attacker. Marriages of convenience are so.inconvenient.įor months Holland Bakker has invented excuses to descend into the subway station near her apartment, drawn to the captivating music performed by her street musician crush. Modern love in all its thrill, hilarity, and uncertainty has never been so compulsively readable as in New York Times bestselling author Christina Lauren’s romantic novel. From subway to Broadway to happily ever after. ![]() ![]() ![]() For the rest of the series, it is crimson red and is wielded with the blade level to their head. In Guilty Gear, it had a silver blade and was held with the blade facing down, near their right leg. Testament now also wears a black top hat, with a skull on the band. Retaining the black boots and arm warmer, they now wear fingerless gloves on both hands: a white one on the right, and black on the left. The skirt now has buttons and a number of brown waistbelts with skull adornments. In Strive, their redesign retains the overall idea, but changes the top for a sleeveless white shirt and frilled cravat, below a black waistcoat with silver buttons on the front flaps, connected to the black mantle over their forearms. They have an arm warmer on one arm and a fingerless glove on the other, as well as a choker with silver studs and a pair of knee-high boots. Across most of their appearances, they exclusively dress in black (or complementary colours, such as dark violet, as seen in their Λ Core artwork) clothes: they wear a midriff-baring top with a mantle covering their arms, and a mid-calf wrap skirt connected by two belts, and secured by another at the waist. Testament has a pale complexion, red eyes, as well as straight, thigh-length black hair. ![]() ![]() ![]()
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