Until this morning, I had never heard of Norman Cohn’s’s book, “The Pursuit of the Millenium.”  It’s a study of utopian end-times cults in Europe from the 11th through the 15th centuries. The novelist Ian McEwan refers to it in his discussion of Frank Kermode’s work as having influenced his worldview. Excerpt from McEwan’s Browser Five Books … Continue reading The Perverse Joy of Apocalypse