The Ruin to Come, Essays From a Protracted WarThis protracted now, these essays argue, remains untranquil in the many unfinished strains of a troubled history that resist falling back into a settled and distant past. What unites the diverse essays of this book is an investment in the concept of labor, understood as both interminable and historical: the labor of min, the labor of the corpse, the labor of nearblindness and the labor of missing