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Anti-Fascist Writers, Fascist Family Legacies: Reading Nicholas Mosley in 2026
Tobias Carroll on the Shockingly Mixed Legacy of England’s Mosley Family
By
Tobias Carroll
| February 27, 2026
Elon Musk Just Doesn’t Understand the Sci-Fi Visions of Iain M. Banks
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Tobias Carroll
| April 30, 2025
China Miéville’s 2009
The City & The City
Predicted the State of US Politics in 2024
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Tobias Carroll
| December 10, 2024
The Best Novel About 21st-Century Male Loneliness Was Written in 1989
Tobias Carroll on M. John Harrison’s Rock Climbing Novel, “Climbers”
By
Tobias Carroll
| August 28, 2024
Time Out of Mind: On the Ahistorical Cinematic Adaptation
A 1973 Bruno Schulz Adaptation Goes (Temporally) Beyond Its Source Material—and It’s Not Alone
By
Tobias Carroll
| July 21, 2023
Do Writers Fetishize Their Tools Too Much... Or Not Enough?
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By
Tobias Carroll
| April 21, 2023
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Meet
Granta
’s Next Generation of Important Spanish Novelists
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On the Best Subversive, Genre-Busting Writer You’ve Never Heard Of
By
Tobias Carroll
| May 14, 2021
On Iain Sinclair and the Radical Act of Walking Through a City
By
Tobias Carroll
| April 28, 2021
What Does It Mean to Write a Political Novel?
Tobias Carroll: When Fury Meets Fiction
By
Tobias Carroll
| February 4, 2021
Adaptations Within Adaptations: How the Writer Anna Kavan Ends Up in Charlie Kaufman's Latest Film
Tobias Carroll on the Postmodernist Fancies of
I’m Thinking of Ending Things
By
Tobias Carroll
| October 30, 2020
How John Steinbeck's Final Novel Grappled With Immigration and Morality
When White Privilege Interrogates Itself in Literature
By
Tobias Carroll
| July 22, 2020
When an Iconic Artist is Claimed By Both the Left and the Right
Tobias Carroll on Springsteen, Orwell, Jarry and the Intersection
of Art and Politics
By
Tobias Carroll
| July 17, 2020
At the Literary Intersection of Climate Disaster, Apocalypse, and Folk Horror
Tobias Carroll on Books by Lucie McKnight Hardy, Claire Colman,
Stephen Graham Jones, and Jennifer Givhan
By
Tobias Carroll
| January 6, 2020
How to Write with Optimism About Nature
(in a Time of Disaster)
Tobias Carroll on Books by Isabella Tree, Marc Hamer,
and Tim Robinson
By
Tobias Carroll
| December 11, 2019
A Century Before Springsteen, Stephen Crane Chronicled Asbury Park
Crane Wrote in a Perfect Blend of Idealism, Cynicism, and Wariness
By
Tobias Carroll
| November 1, 2019
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