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Alex Foster

Alex Foster
Alex Foster received his MFA from New York University, where he served as fiction editor of Washington Square Review. He now edits books at Henry Holt and Company and Metropolitan. His short stories have appeared in Agni, The Common, The Evergreen Review, and elsewhere. Previously, he studied economics at the University of Chicago and conducted research for the U.S. government and for the World Bank’s Gender Innovation Lab in West Africa. Circular Motion is his first novel.


And If This Is(n’t) the End of the World? Why We Dread—and Desire—Apocalypse

Alex Foster on What Draws Us to Doomsday Fantasies, and Why We Should Resist the Urge to Indulge Them
May 14, 2025  By Alex Foster
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