Jay Caspian Kang and the Old, Weird Future

The first installment of "The Backlist" and "T-Shirt of the Week"

Here’s a little thing I’ve been thinking about doing for some time now. Every month or so I’m going to read a book from the last 21 years. Why 21? Because the 21 Club closed, of course.

No. I’m kidding. It’s more because I’d like to use fiction as a way to explore how we’ve tried to make sense of the last two decades of war, American decline, mass surve…