Cormac McCarthy’s The Road is post-apocalyptic, but, as has been exhaustively noted, it’s largely unconcerned with the cause of the world’s end. In this sense it breaks from the tradition of dystopia as political and cautionary. Though it earned McCarthy a spot on The Guardian’s 2008 “50 people who could save the planet” list, with…
Nathan Goldman is a student at St. John’s College in Annapolis, MD, where he is Co-Editor-in-Chief of
The Gadfly, the student newsmagazine. He is pursuing a degree in Liberal Arts. His fiction has appeared online in the
Journal of Microliterature.