The Shape of Things to Come

<p>In his deeply moving new collection<em> The Shape of Things to Come</em> John Blair offers us penetrating meditation on the Manhattan Project and its consequences in terms both historically recuperative and mindful of a cautionary anxiety deeply psychological. Here the author borrows from a communal legacy of ancient story to situate the bomb in spite and in light of its break with the past as both an illumination of human nature and a shift of mythical scope and weight. In light of the new Zeitgeist and a threat as extreme as ever and yet faded from conversation this book breathes new life into a much-needed public understanding.</p><p>-Bruce Bond</p>