Robin Fleming

Apr 21, 2024 | fivebooks.com | Cormac McCarthy |Robin Fleming |Russell Hoban |Christopher Buehlman

Your work centres on themes of ruination, decline, collapse. And it seems you are not alone in this fascination: your podcast Fall of Civilizations has had 100 million listens; a related book, offering “stories of greatness and decline” is about to be released. For us, you’ve selected five books on the end of the world—presumably because for those experiencing dramatic cultural decline that’s how it must feel.

Feb 22, 2024 | greenleft.org.au | Matt Broomfield |Robin Fleming

When the young activist Dr Mahrang Baloch returned to her native Balochistan from Islamabad on January 27, a westward journey of more than 500 miles through the biting Pakistani winter, she was met with a hero’s welcome. In defiance of a government ban on public assemblies, the Baloch people had gathered by the tens of thousands in an unprecedented show of solidarity to greet her and several hundred of her fellow marchers, more than half of them women and children.