By Katie Garrett, Ball State University Good Omens is a book about the possibility of an apocalypse as foretold by Revelations (as well as Agnes Nutter, an ancient prophetic witch). Instead of being all gloomy about The End, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett come together to write a quintessential comedy featuring angels, demons, witches, an […]

by Olivia Hershman, Ball State University Margaret Atwood has long been an esteemed author, literary critic, and activist, popular for her books of poetry, award-winning essays, and her post-apocalyptic and dystopian novels. Perhaps her most popular novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, only continues to grow in popularity since its recent adaptation into a Hulu original series. […]

by Savana Newton, Ball State University Seattle’s been hit by a zombie invasion, and not even singer Rob Thomas was able to make it out alive; that is, if you’re a character on the CW show iZombie. With a female-zombie protagonist, we see this world through the eye of the ‘other’: we watch as Liv […]

by Hannah Partridge, Ball State University In the DLR class, we have discussed our society’s fascination with images of post-apocalyptic destruction and desolation. Movies, TV shows, and books depict abandoned cities reclaimed by nature, and we find them to be hauntingly beautiful. Jackie Johnson is an educator and photographer living in St. Louis, Missouri. Jackie […]

by Megan Schillereff, Ball State University In the film 28 Days Later, director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland give us a post-zombie apocalypse London struggling for survival, complete with a small group of survivors eking out a living from the zombie-scorched earth. Not surprisingly, these survivors have to fight to evolve and adapt to […]

by Leah Heim, Ball State University It’s fall semester, and that means Ball State University’s Digital Literature Review is officially geared up for another year of literary criticism and analysis. As one of the lead editors, I humbly invite all readers, scholars, and writers to join our staff in exploring this year’s journal topic— representations of the post-apocalypse. […]

by Kathryn Hampshire Dr. Adam Beach, Chairperson for the Department of English at Ball State University, was one of the key players in starting the Digital Literature Review (DLR) in 2013, and he served as its faculty mentor again the following year; he will be rejoining the staff next year, this time with the theme […]