Examples of works whose titles draw from "The Second Coming" include: Chinua Achebe's novel "Things Fall Apart" (1958); Joan Didion's essay collection "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" (1968); Robert B. Parker's novel "The Widening Gyre" (1983); the 1996 non-fiction book "Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline" by Robert Bork; the song "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" (which quotes or paraphrases almost all of the poem) by Joni Mitchell from her 1991 album "Night Ride Home"; the episode "Revelations" (9 November 1994) of the science fiction television series "Babylon 5"; The Roots LP "Things Fall Apart", released in 1999; Harry Turtledove's novel ""; the 2003 game "Slouching Towards Bedlam"; the "Star Trek" eBook collection "Mere Anarchy" (2006–07;, Elyn Saks' autobiography "The Center Cannot Hold" (2007); "The Sopranos" episode "The Second Coming" (2007); the Altan album "" (2015); the Ben Frost LP "The Centre Cannot Hold" (2017); "When the Center Held", a 2018 memoir by Donald Rumsfeld of the Gerald Ford presidency; and the Sleater-Kinney LP "The Center Won't Hold", released in 2019, 100 years after Yeats wrote the poem.