Desert Notebooks: A Road Map For The End Of Time

"Ben Ehrenreich’s Desert Notebooks is a uniquely unsettled book. It takes on a lot at once – history, climate change, myth, politics – but at its heart is a fascinating look at the question of time. Time here is charged with a sense of apocalypse, or time’s own end. And throughout, Ehrenreich channels his thoughts in a way that feels alternately visionary and polemical. Desert Notebooks is a work of fervent humility. It’s great because it contemplates the wages of injustice, the mysteriousness of the world and how the present feels when a sense of an ending relentlessly permeates it."