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EnvironmentMay 17, 2022
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.
Hannah Gold
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BiographyDecember 13, 2021
The Making of Tom Stoppard
How mistaken identity and acts of reinvention define the life and work of the British playwright.
Hannah Gold
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Cultural Criticism and AnalysisOctober 28, 2021
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.
Hannah Gold
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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