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Is This the Strangest Soccer Novel Ever Written?

Is This the Strangest Soccer Novel Ever Written?

Tobias Carroll on Carlos Labbé's The Murmuration

By Tobias Carroll | June 10, 2026

Anti-Fascist Writers, Fascist Family Legacies: Reading Nicholas Mosley in 2026

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

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

Tobias Carroll on When Bad Fans Happen to Good Books

By Tobias Carroll | April 30, 2025

China Miéville’s 2009 <em>The City & The City</em> Predicted the State of US Politics in 2024

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

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

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

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

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

Tobias Carroll on Why We Love Our Notebooks (and Our Pens)

By Tobias Carroll | April 21, 2023

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

By Diana Arterian | December 15, 2022

Meet Granta’s Next Generation of Important Spanish Novelists

By Tobias Carroll | August 23, 2021

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

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

Tobial Carroll on the Vast Scale of Modest Acts

By Tobias Carroll | April 28, 2021

What Does It Mean to Write a Political Novel?

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

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

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

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

Featuring Emma Cline, Ayad Akhtar, Emily Gray Tedrowe, and More

By Teddy Wayne | September 8, 2020

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

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

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

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

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