Billed by its publisher as a “a radical reinterpretation of the Loki myth,” Kurt Baumeister’s second novel Twilight of the Gods is a comic noir about a 21st century Ragnarok in a world where fascism is politically ascendant. The point of view belongs to the Norse god of mischief, rendered cleverly and affectionately by Baumeister as a devastatingly handsome pansexual Black man who sees his current incarnation as carrying implications for his adversarial relationship with top Norse god Odin, who turns out here to be friendly with Nazis, both historical and contemporary.