Why Do Horror Stories Resonate So Deeply Right Now?

Why Do Horror Stories Resonate So Deeply Right Now?

From Get Out to The Changeling, These Are Creepy (Fictional) Times

By Tobias Carroll | May 10, 2018

Van Morrison, Unlikeliest of Literary Muses

Van Morrison, Unlikeliest of Literary Muses

On the Outsize Influence of Astral Weeks

By Tobias Carroll | April 26, 2018

On the Dangers of Romanticizing Gentrification in Your Novel

On the Dangers of Romanticizing Gentrification in Your Novel

Tobias Carroll Examines a Perennial Concern of New York City Lit

By Tobias Carroll | October 18, 2017

How Far Can Fascist Satire Go?

How Far Can Fascist Satire Go?

On the Troubling, Compelling Work of Curzio Malaparte

By Tobias Carroll | August 21, 2017

The Literary Legacy of Occupy Wall Street

The Literary Legacy of Occupy Wall Street

On the Work of Barbara Browning, Eugene Lim, Sarah Gerard, and More

By Tobias Carroll | June 9, 2017

We Are All Detectives Now: When Literary Plots Get Mysterious

We Are All Detectives Now: When Literary Plots Get Mysterious

On Recent Novels by Katie Kitamura, Patty Yumi Cottrell, and More

By Tobias Carroll | March 30, 2017

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How Fiction Tackles Global Economic Uncertainty

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The Dark Side of Office Life

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On Literary Plagues

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From the Historical to the Fantastic, How Disease Scars Us All

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When Grief Becomes Surreal

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On the Reality-Bending Effects of Trauma in Literature

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Reading the Literary City

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How Urban Spaces Shape the Books We Read

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On the Future of the American Essay

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How Film and Poetry are Changing the Form—And Vice Versa

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Infiltrating Literature's Secret Societies

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Tobias Carroll on Our Fascination with All-Powerful, Unseen Institutions

By Tobias Carroll | April 29, 2016

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