Love in the zombie apocalypse

On HBO's *The Last of Us*, theology of death, and eschatology

Gentle reader,

The technicalities of contemporary life make for a storytelling challenge. Cell phones are ruinous for story arcs, robbing of us mystery, convincing us of mastery. I suppose this is part of the reason we’re now living in such a great age of genre fiction.

If you want to tell a story about what it means to be human, write about mutants. If y…