RaveLos Angeles Review of Books... brilliant ... his field notes on the doomsday industry always circle back to personal revelations about what it means to live with apocalyptic anxieties ... The foregrounding of ignorance and insecurity can be risky for nonfiction prose, but here it works especially well because no one can truly have expert knowledge of the end of the world. O’Connell’s consistent attention to his own limited perspective encourages a very modern form of \'negative capability,\' what John Keats defined as the power to persist \'in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.\'
