Review: “Annihilation”
Michel Houellebecq’s “Annihilation” turns its way through dull romance, empty politics and day-to-day domesticity. Weaving through economic collapse, moral decline, and existential angst in a near-future France. It is surprisingly unironic. Tinged with gentle, unexpected tenderness. Like many of Houellebecq’s novels it begins with the end of a