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Tobias Carroll

Tobias Carroll
Tobias Carroll is a writer and essayist, and the managing editor of Vol. 1 Brooklyn. He is the author of three books: Political Sign (Bloomsbury), part of the Object Lessons series; the story collection Transitory (Civil Coping Mechanisms) and the novel Reel (Rare Bird).


Elon Musk Just Doesn’t Understand the Sci-Fi Visions of Iain M. Banks

Tobias Carroll on When Bad Fans Happen to Good Books
April 30, 2025  By Tobias Carroll
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China Miéville’s 2009 The City & The City Predicted the State of US Politics in 2024

Tobias Carroll on When Speculative Fiction Starts to Feel Like Fact
December 10, 2024  By Tobias Carroll
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The Best Novel About 21st-Century Male Loneliness Was Written in 1989

Tobias Carroll on M. John Harrison’s Rock Climbing Novel, “Climbers”
August 28, 2024  By Tobias Carroll
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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
July 21, 2023  By Tobias Carroll
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Do Writers Fetishize Their Tools Too Much… Or Not Enough?

Tobias Carroll on Why We Love Our Notebooks (and Our Pens)
April 21, 2023  By Tobias Carroll
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Meet Granta’s Next Generation of Important Spanish Novelists

Tobias Carroll Talks to Guest Editor Valerie Miles
August 23, 2021  By Tobias Carroll
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On the Best Subversive, Genre-Busting Writer You’ve Never Heard Of

Tobias Carroll Rereads M. John Harrison, an Under-Recognized Master
May 14, 2021  By Tobias Carroll
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On Iain Sinclair and the Radical Act of Walking Through a City

Tobial Carroll on the Vast Scale of Modest Acts
April 28, 2021  By Tobias Carroll
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What Does It Mean to Write a Political Novel?

Tobias Carroll: When Fury Meets Fiction
February 4, 2021  By Tobias Carroll
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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
October 30, 2020  By Tobias Carroll
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How John Steinbeck’s Final Novel Grappled With Immigration and Morality

When White Privilege Interrogates Itself in Literature
July 22, 2020  By Tobias Carroll
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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
July 17, 2020  By Tobias Carroll
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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
January 6, 2020  By Tobias Carroll
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How to Write with Optimism About Nature
(in a Time of Disaster)

Tobias Carroll on Books by Isabella Tree, Marc Hamer,
and Tim Robinson
December 11, 2019  By Tobias Carroll
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A Century Before Springsteen, Stephen Crane Chronicled Asbury Park

Crane Wrote in a Perfect Blend of Idealism, Cynicism, and Wariness
November 1, 2019  By Tobias Carroll
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What Gets Lost (and Found) in Translating Prose to Comics

Tobias Carroll on the Generative Power of Literary Adaptation
May 29, 2019  By Tobias Carroll
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On the Modern American Obsession with French Revolution Narratives

Because Guillotines and Eating the Rich Never Really Go Out of Style
May 3, 2019  By Tobias Carroll
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Empathy Exams: On Fictionalizing Extremists

One Writer’s Activism is Another Writer’s Terrorism
February 1, 2019  By Tobias Carroll
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Where, Exactly, is the Overlap Between Storytelling and Technology?

On Writing in a New Dark Age
September 24, 2018  By Tobias Carroll
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Making the Case for the Surreal Memoir

Pushing the Limits of Form, from Leonora Carrington to Wendy C. Ortiz
August 20, 2018  By Tobias Carroll
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