Tobias Carroll

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

 
By Tobias Carroll  December 10, 2024
Sports

The Best Novel About 21st-Century Male Loneliness Was Written in 1989

By Tobias Carroll  August 28, 2024
The Writing Life

Do Writers Fetishize Their Tools Too Much… Or Not Enough?

By Tobias Carroll  April 21, 2023
The Annotated Nightstand

The Annotated Nightstand: What Simon Jacobs is Reading Now and Next

By Diana Arterian  December 15, 2022
Novelists

Meet Granta’s Next Generation of Important Spanish Novelists

By Tobias Carroll  August 23, 2021
Science fiction

On the Best Subversive, Genre-Busting Writer You’ve Never Heard Of

By Tobias Carroll  May 14, 2021
Walking

On Iain Sinclair and the Radical Act of Walking Through a City

By Tobias Carroll  April 28, 2021
Political Art

What Does It Mean to Write a Political Novel?

By Tobias Carroll  February 4, 2021
Film Criticism

Adaptations Within Adaptations: How the Writer Anna Kavan Ends Up in Charlie Kaufman’s Latest Film

By Tobias Carroll  October 30, 2020
Lit Hub Questionnaire

Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

By Teddy Wayne  September 8, 2020
Immigration

How John Steinbeck’s Final Novel Grappled With Immigration and Morality

By Tobias Carroll  July 22, 2020
Art and Politics

When an Iconic Artist is Claimed By Both the Left and the Right

By Tobias Carroll  July 17, 2020
Horror

At the Literary Intersection of Climate Disaster, Apocalypse, and Folk Horror

By Tobias Carroll  January 6, 2020
Nature Writing

How to Write with Optimism About Nature
(in a Time of Disaster)

By Tobias Carroll  December 11, 2019
Graphic Novels

What Gets Lost (and Found) in Translating Prose to Comics

By Tobias Carroll  May 29, 2019
Literary Criticism

On the Modern American Obsession with French Revolution Narratives

By Tobias Carroll  May 3, 2019
Deep Dive

Empathy Exams: On Fictionalizing Extremists

By Tobias Carroll  February 1, 2019
Essay

Where, Exactly, is the Overlap Between Storytelling and Technology?

By Tobias Carroll  September 24, 2018
Essay

Making the Case for the Surreal Memoir

By Tobias Carroll  August 20, 2018
Criticism

Why Do Horror Stories Resonate So Deeply Right Now?

By Tobias Carroll  May 10, 2018
Essay

Van Morrison, Unlikeliest of Literary Muses

By Tobias Carroll  April 26, 2018
Features

On the Dangers of Romanticizing Gentrification in Your Novel

By Tobias Carroll  October 18, 2017
Criticism

How Far Can Fascist Satire Go?

By Tobias Carroll  August 21, 2017
History

The Literary Legacy of Occupy Wall Street

By Tobias Carroll  June 9, 2017
Deep Dive

We Are All Detectives Now: When Literary Plots Get Mysterious

By Tobias Carroll  March 30, 2017
Politics

How Fiction Tackles Global Economic Uncertainty

By Tobias Carroll  February 7, 2017
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