![]() ![]() I wasn’t sure if Severance would fit the bill, but it seemed scary for unconventional, close-to-home reasons, so I thought I would give it a shot. I go for something that will get me thinking or keep me up at night - preferably both - and existentialist horror is my favorite kind. millennials.Įvery summer, I like to break away from fantastical spec fic and read at least one disturbing book. Severance did not predict the pandemic, but it drafted a chilling and personal framework for the way that it would feel for U.S. Regardless, Ma never fails to capture the creeping dread and surprising stasis of modern life within a crisis. ![]() The details of Severance’s apocalypse sometimes align eerily with our own more often, they differ. ![]() A book about an apocalyptic pandemic, millennial malaise, and the soul-crushing ramifications of international capitalism mirrors much of the 21st century - but it captures the conditions of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic far more specifically. That may seem like a strange thing to say about a three-year-old novel, but in this case, the effect is acute. Like many great American works, Ling Ma’s Severance (2018) has taken on more meaning and cultural relevance with time. ![]()
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