Making the Case for the
Surreal Memoir
Pushing the Limits of Form, from Leonora Carrington to Wendy C. Ortiz
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Why Do Horror Stories Resonate So Deeply Right Now?
From Get Out to The Changeling, These Are Creepy (Fictional) Times
May 10, 2018
By Tobias Carroll
Van Morrison, Unlikeliest of
Literary Muses
On the Outsize Influence of Astral Weeks
April 26, 2018
By Tobias Carroll
On the Dangers of Romanticizing Gentrification in Your Novel
Tobias Carroll Examines a Perennial Concern of New York City Lit
October 18, 2017
By Tobias Carroll
How Far Can Fascist Satire Go?
On the Troubling, Compelling Work of Curzio Malaparte
August 21, 2017
By Tobias Carroll
The Literary Legacy of
Occupy Wall Street
On the Work of Barbara Browning, Eugene Lim, Sarah Gerard, and More
June 9, 2017
By Tobias Carroll
We Are All Detectives Now: When Literary Plots Get Mysterious
On Recent Novels by Katie Kitamura, Patty Yumi Cottrell, and More
March 30, 2017
By Tobias Carroll
How Fiction Tackles Global
Economic Uncertainty
Tobias Carroll on Boom-Bust Capitalism, and Stories of Austerity
February 7, 2017
By Tobias Carroll
Did America Just Elect Baron Munchausen?
On the Appeal of Fantasists, Storytellers, and Liars
December 14, 2016
By Tobias Carroll
How Fiction Treats the Elderly, Aging,
and Ancient
Tobias Carroll on a Wide Rage of Novels Dealing with Old Age
October 18, 2016
By Tobias Carroll
The Literature of Creepy Clowns
If They're Coming, You Might As Well Be Prepared...
October 7, 2016
By Tobias Carroll
The Dark Side of Office Life
Workplace Novels that Explore the Dystopic and Surreal
August 12, 2016
By Tobias Carroll
On Literary Plagues
From the Historical to the Fantastic, How Disease Scars Us All
July 22, 2016
By Tobias Carroll
When Grief Becomes Surreal
On the Reality-Bending Effects of Trauma in Literature
July 15, 2016
By Tobias Carroll
Reading the Literary City
How Urban Spaces Shape the Books We Read
May 20, 2016
By Tobias Carroll
On the Future of the American Essay
How Film and Poetry are Changing the Form—And Vice Versa
May 11, 2016
By Tobias Carroll
Infiltrating Literature’s Secret Societies
Tobias Carroll on Our Fascination with All-Powerful, Unseen Institutions
April 29, 2016
By Tobias Carroll
Why We Love Weird Fairy Tales
From the Tale of Tales to Michael Cunningham to Helen Oyeyemi...
March 17, 2016
By Tobias Carroll
How We Fictionalize Our Politics
On writing history and ideology into fictional lives
February 18, 2016
By Tobias Carroll
When Setting Trumps Character
Great Writing About Place
November 23, 2015
By Tobias Carroll
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