A conversation with best-selling author, journalist, and political activist Rebecca Solnit on the subject of apocalyptic fantasies, visions, and predictions and the politics of the End Time. Author of thirteen books about art, landscape, public and collective life, ecology, politics, hope, meandering, reverie, and memory, her most recent publications include A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster and Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics. Moderated by Mark C. Taylor, co-director of the IRCPL and Chair of the Department of Religion at Columbia University. He has written over twenty books, the most recent of which are titled Rewiring the Real and Refiguring the Spiritual.

Apocalypse Now: End Time and the Contemporary Imaginary is a yearlong series of conversations with writers that explores our current fascination with apocalyptic visions.

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