Station Eleven: Post-Apocalyptic Comedy and the Improbable Happy Ending
The novel’s plot centers on the end of the world, but here’s the thing: it’s hopeful.
Station Eleven: The Virtue of Being an Artist and Answering Death with Beauty
At the heart of Station Eleven is a conflict between affirmation of Life and negation of Life. Affirmation wins.
Station Eleven: The Virtue of Risky Hospitality and Making Monsters into Friends
Rebuilding civilization requires hospitality to strangers, whether they show up cold and dirty on your doorstep, or warm and tiny in your womb.
Station Eleven: The Virtue of Helping Even When You Don’t Know What You’re Doing
Healing doesn’t require a degree. But it does require a willingness to share someone’s suffering.
Station Eleven: Why We Long for the Clarity of Disaster and the Safety of Home
Station Eleven focuses on the clarity that the pandemic’s disaster affords, and the way people re-make their sense of “home” after the damage.
Alien and Station Eleven Reveal the Limits of Survival and Human Nature
Two acclaimed works of fiction challenge the notion that mere survival ought to be humanity’s highest goal.
