It looks back, from a distance of two decades, on "The Downward Spiral," Mr. Reznor's 1994 masterpiece that contemplated self-destruction and suicide during a period of personal and career turmoil; it became Nine Inch Nails' musical and commercial breakthrough.
Like Zadie Smith, who shares his perceptive irony, Kunzru is of a generation that looks back from the 21st century not so much in anger as in cool mockery.
BACK FROM THE FUTURE The Atlantic has made access to its Web site free, and in introducing the enhanced site, highlighted a 2005 article by James Fallows in which he looks back from 2016 at a long-building economic collapse.
A new book of essays about London's future concludes with one from Gavin Kelly, chief executive of the Resolution Foundation, that looks back from an imagined capital in 2050.
And in "Birdsong," the BBC adaptation of the Sebastian Faulks novel, in which an army officer (Eddie Redmayne, the fashionable young actor) at war (World War I, the fashionable war at the moment) looks back from the trenches to an idyllic prewar love affair.
And "Birdsong," the BBC adaptation of the Sebastian Faulks novel, in which an army officer (Eddie Redmayne, the fashionable young actor at the moment) at war (World War I, the fashionable war at the moment) looks back from the trenches to an idyllic prewar love affair.
