Rumaan Alam

Rumaan Alam’s Leave the World Behind is an apocalypse novel that refuses the spectacle of apocalypse. A Brooklyn family - Amanda, Clay, and their two kids - rent a Long Island house for a week of curated tranquility. Then, late at [...]

When a book is so hailed on social media, one must dig in and read. At the very worst, a book so trumpeted by critics must have seams to unpick. A book coming from a former critic for The New York [...]