Hannah Gold

is a writer living in Brooklyn.

Stormy Sea Breaking on a Shore, by J.M.W. Turner

The Sea According to Rachel Carson The Sea According to Rachel Carson

Her first three books were odes to the world’s bodies of water and their creative power over all life forms.

May 17, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Hannah Gold

The Making of Tom Stoppard

The Making of Tom Stoppard The Making of Tom Stoppard

How mistaken identity and acts of reinvention define the life and work of the British playwright.

Dec 13, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Hannah Gold

The Strange State of the Novel in the “Age of Amazon”

The Strange State of the Novel in the “Age of Amazon” The Strange State of the Novel in the “Age of Amazon”

A conversation with Mark McGurl about how the company changed the way books are written and the consequences of a service oriented reading culture.

Oct 28, 2021 / Q&A / Hannah Gold

COUCH IN PARLOR

Analysis Interminable: On Janet Malcolm Analysis Interminable: On Janet Malcolm

The insight and rigor of her writing changed the way we understood the work of psychoanalysis.

Jun 25, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Hannah Gold

Vivian Gornick in Reverse

Vivian Gornick in Reverse Vivian Gornick in Reverse

A conversation with the writer about her life and work.

Mar 11, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Hannah Gold

Sally Rooney and the Millennial Novel of Manners

Sally Rooney and the Millennial Novel of Manners Sally Rooney and the Millennial Novel of Manners

Her second book, Normal People, mines the travails of Irish youth to tell a decidedly contemporary love story. 

Sep 17, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Hannah Gold

Sick for Home, Nauseated by Home

Sick for Home, Nauseated by Home Sick for Home, Nauseated by Home

The lens of Ottessa Moshfegh’s Homesick for Another World is, almost without exception, fitted close-up on conversations, petty rumination, and squalid interiors.

Feb 14, 2017 / Hannah Gold

Man Walking

How (Not) to Fake Your Own Death How (Not) to Fake Your Own Death

Elizabeth Greenwood’s Playing Dead is a brilliant series of entertaining character reports, but her telling of what all the deceit and deletions add up to is unconvincing.

Oct 20, 2016 / Hannah Gold

Oneida John Humphrey Noyes

Oneida’s Original, Utopian Vision Oneida’s Original, Utopian Vision

Championing the free market is compatible with the company’s original free-love doctrine: The fierce desire of men to feel competent bankrolls both.

Aug 8, 2016 / Hannah Gold

Angela Flournoy.

House of the Dispossessed House of the Dispossessed

Angela Flournoy's The Turner House is a story of the living and the lost.

Aug 13, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Hannah Gold

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