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Cultural Criticism and AnalysisJune 25, 2021
Analysis Interminable: On Janet Malcolm
The insight and rigor of her writing changed the way we understood the work of psychoanalysis.
Hannah Gold
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FeminismMarch 11, 2021
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FictionSeptember 17, 2019
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.
Hannah Gold
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FictionFebruary 14, 2017
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.
Hannah Gold
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Books and IdeasOctober 20, 2016
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.
Hannah Gold
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Books and IdeasAugust 8, 2016
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.
Hannah Gold
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Books and IdeasAugust 13, 2015
House of the Dispossessed
Angela Flournoy's The Turner House is a story of the living and the lost.
Hannah Gold
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CultureApril 14, 2015
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Language ArtsJanuary 14, 2015
Inoculation as Metaphor
Eula Biss’s On Immunity is a slipshod book full of brilliant moments.
Hannah Gold
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ActivismJuly 18, 2014
The Garden Where Rough Edges Grow
Organized by the New Economy Coalition, CommonBound brought together more than 650 activists, academics, and students to discuss what the “new economy” is and share projects that had been working to further its realization.
Hannah Gold and StudentNation