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...Staff writer Lois E. Beckett can be reached at lbeckett@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Lois E. Beckett can be reached at lbeckett@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Lois E. Beckett can be reached at lbeckett@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Johannah S. Cornblatt can be reached at jcornbl@fas.harvard.edu...
...wasn't always all zombies and asteroids and Mel Gibson. It has a long and distinguished literary history. As early as 1826, Mary Shelley--who also wrote Frankenstein--published a novel called The Last Man, in which a plague whittles humanity down to a single final specimen. In Samuel Beckett's play Endgame, crippled wretches crouch in a miserable bunker after some ambiguous, eschatological catastrophe, swapping gallows one-liners as their supplies dwindle...
...Staff writer Lois E. Beckett can be reached at lbeckett@fas.harvard.edu...