Coincidence plays a significant role in Station Eleven. We’ve talked about coincidence before in regard to other novels—let’s plunge in...

Last time, I said that the Dr. Eleven graphic comic, created by Miranda, is so central to Station Eleven that it deserves its own post....

Narratives are a balance of mimetic, thematic, and synthetic threads. Mimetic threads are those that present convincing characters and...

How is time handled in Station Eleven? I can say straight off that time is discontinuous and episodic, two terms we’ve looked at before....

One of the central questions Station Eleven asks its readers is: what would you do in a world without technology? No electricity, no...

This week, a new novel, Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven. This acclaimed book was published in 2014 and has been adapted into a...