Phillip Maciak

Phillip Maciak is the author of The Disappearing Christ: Secularism in the Silent Era (Columbia University Press, 2019) and the TV editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books. He is a lecturer in English and American Culture Studies at Washington University in St. Louis.

Contributions

This Chaotic Earth: On Clarence Larkin’s Charts

The apocalypse stressed me out. This is an obviously true, maybe irresponsibly glib statement in material terms—the sixth extinction, global pandemic, nuclear annihilation, space rocks, methane farts, these all terrify me daily in ways that I have the luxury to be terrified.