In Worlds at the End: Los Angeles, Infrastructure, and the Apocalyptic Imagination (Temple University Press, 2024), Professor Pacharee Sudhinaraset studies women of color literary and intellectual output in the post-1990s period to rethink the twentieth century not as the apex of modern progress but as a relentless proliferation of competing apocalyptic visions and specters. Worlds at the End argues that women of color writers (such as Esther Belin and Karen Tei Yashamita) illuminate how twentieth century anxieties about the end times—fueled by ecological destruction, catastrophic warfare, threats of nuclear annihilation and mass extinction—are in fact products of the racial, sexual, and gendered hierarchies of capitalist modernity. In this project, Los Angeles, a place at once central to capitalist geopolitics and constantly threatened by forest fire, earthquake, and racial injustice, arises as a powerful matrix for apocalyptic revelations that unveil modernity’s subjugated histories.