@inbook{10.2307/j.ctt13x1mvn.9, ISBN = {9780812246933}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt13x1mvn.9}, abstract = {In Usk, then, you don’t need prophecy, because history tells you all the future’s secrets you need to know. But then (this is the next turn) it does the job so easily that you don’t need history either: the future, like the present, is so brutal and obvious that it can have no secrets. What is coming is more of the same, plus more hopeful and pointless efforts to avoid it.The world in Usk’s chronicle does not have a narrative so much as an invariant drive toward ruin. The image of a world tottering, physically unbalanced, is commonplace: Bishop}, bookauthor = {Steven Justice}, booktitle = {Adam Usk's Secret}, pages = {82--95}, publisher = {University of Pennsylvania Press}, title = {Grief}, year = {2015} }