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Devolution

Max Brooks is not only dealing with the end of humanity; he‘s also showing us our further course toward a new, ineluctable, absolute brutality.

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Review of ‘Devolution’

Civil society is always fragile. When it collapses under violent threat, its citizens inevitably reveal their truest selves. With his groundbreaking first novel, World War Z, Max Brooks adapted this timeless truth—the essence of The Iliad, King Lear, War and Peace, etc.—on a global scale (with zombies). In Devolution, the author gives it another go,…

Interview with Max Brooks

Max Brooks pierces the illusion that technology can save us in his bold new novel of anthropological horror.

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