In 2022, the Collins Dictionary announced that its word of the year was “permacrisis,” which it defined as “an extended period of instability and insecurity, especially one resulting from a series of catastrophic events.” In his new book, In Crisis, On Crisis, James Cairns draws on social research, pop culture, and literature to consider not only what makes something a crisis, but how to navigate one. He’s joined by Vinh Nguyen, who co-edited “Dispatches: Writing In/During Crisis” for The New Quarterly, which explores what it means to be a writer in times of political and moral crisis. Nguyen’s book, The Migrant Rain Falls in Reverse, brings readers to the end of the U.S. war in Vietnam when the refugee crisis was only beginning. 

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