“The Vivisectors,” by Missouri Williams, critiques the hollowness of contemporary life. But it’s tricky to gauge the book’s level of self-awareness. www.newyorker.com/books/under-...
A Trollish New Campus Novel Hates Students and Professors Alike
“The Vivisectors,” by Missouri Williams, critiques the hollowness of contemporary life. But it’s tricky to gauge the book’s level of self-awareness.
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“Why merely ‘touch grass’ when you can—as the narrator of Lerner’s first novel, Leaving the Atocha Station (2011), might put it—resist the “triumph of the actual” and uphold the possibility of sudden creative illumination?” —Hannah Gold buff.ly/BRC7djq
The World’s Worst Journalist, by Hannah Gold
Ben Lerner warps the record
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I wrote about Ben Lerner's new novel and our phone addiction for the latest issue of @harpers.bsky.social harpers.org/archive/2026...
The World’s Worst Journalist, by Hannah Gold
Ben Lerner warps the record
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new piece up at @newyorker.com on a great debut novel! bsky.app/profile/newy...
The New Yorker@newyorker.com · 6mo agoThe most sophisticated critiques made in Madeline Cash’s début novel “aren’t of unbridled corporate greed or the über-wealthy, but of ordinary people who have lost the ability to reimagine their lives,” Hannah Gold writes. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/x9BmYd
Wrote about my admiration for Sarah Chihaya's BIBLIOPHOBIA for this year's Public Picks, a sort of "Best of" list, at Public Books. Amazing to see CLOSE READING FOR THE 21C on there from both Nick Dames and Leah Price, scholars whose writing I love very much ❤️ www.publicbooks.org/public-picks...
Public Picks 2025 - Public Books
What were the books of 2025 that dazzled, challenged, and inspired us? For this, the 13th-annual edition of Public Picks, section editors for Global Black
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I wrote a short fiction story about dating for A Fucking Magazine, you can read it online now! feeld.co/magazine/ple...
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A short story by Hannah Gold. From AFM Issue 2, online and on newsstands now.
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Despite its fascinating setting, Kate Riley’s “Ruth,” which follows a woman born into an insular Christian commune, has little to say about community or faith, Hannah Gold writes.
Pictures of Life on a Christian Commune
Kate Riley’s début novel, “Ruth,” is about the workings of an insular religious community—and the irresistible pleasure of making up rules.
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In an Ozick story, the pettier the character and the more obvious her scorn for them, the more likely it is that supernatural forces are being marshaled to intervene. www.thenation.com/article/cult...
The Cold and Forbidding Worlds of Cynthia Ozick
In a new career-spanning collection of shorter fiction and non-fiction, the past often looms larger for Ozick than the present.
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‘Twenty years of writing, reading, thinking and travelling went into Memoirs of Hadrian. But the most striking thing about it is the permission Yourcenar gave herself to inhabit the mind of someone she thought was a genius.’ Joanna Biggs on Marguerite Yourcenar: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Joanna Biggs · Beneath the White Scarf: On Marguerite Yourcenar
Twenty years of writing, reading, thinking and travelling went into Memoirs of Hadrian. Several drafts were burned. But...
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“Was this her destiny? The fantasies felt nauseatingly real. They were violating, unacceptable, and all the more so because they did not explain the terror that occasioned them.” New fiction by Hannah Gold (@hannahkgold.bsky.social).
Why Trees, by Hannah Gold
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You can now read my latest fiction in the new issue of @harpers.bsky.social ✨ it's about envy, anarchists, the common longing for exceptionalism, and trees harpers.org/archive/2025...
Why Trees, by Hannah Gold
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You can now read my latest fiction in the new issue of @harpers.bsky.social ✨ it's about envy, anarchists, the common longing for exceptionalism, and trees harpers.org/archive/2025...
Why Trees, by Hannah Gold
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My friend Sarah wrote a very brilliant and moving book of personal essays about the hidden horrors of being a bookish sort, BIBLIOPHOBIA is out in a few weeks and not to be missed! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/714768...
Bibliophobia by Sarah Chihaya: 9780593594728 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
“A wise, tremendously moving exploration of what it means to seek companionship and understanding, in books and in life.”—Hua Hsu, author of Stay True “A must for the obsessive...
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Need to forget about the existence of Mike and Ikes again, they’re way too delicious
I had the pleasure of writing about the great Kenneth Lonergan for @nybooks.com www.nybooks.com/online/2024/...
Mama Tried | Hannah Gold
Every Kenneth Lonergan production is, at its center, a story of nihilism resisted or indulged. Usually the characters engaged in these struggles haven’t
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Incredible piece of reporting and criticism by Giles Harvey, a must-read www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/m...
What Alice Munro Knew
The Nobel-winning author’s husband was a pedophile who targeted her daughter and other children. Why did she stay silent?
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I had the pleasure of writing about the great Kenneth Lonergan for @nybooks.com www.nybooks.com/online/2024/...
Mama Tried | Hannah Gold
Every Kenneth Lonergan production is, at its center, a story of nihilism resisted or indulged. Usually the characters engaged in these struggles haven’t
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Bohemian Rhapsody is the Dan Flashes of songs, so complicated and so many parts, that’s why people love it
“The sonic world Sophie made was often exhausting but evidently inexhaustible.”—Sam Huber
‘The Loudest, Brightest Thing’ | Sam Huber
Late one evening when I was twenty, a boy I liked shared a theory: queer people who come out in adulthood go through a second adolescence. Freed from the
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Bringing my good news to the bluesky community: I sold my book of short stories 🤓
Does everyone on here say “call me Deacon Bluesky”? Been wanting to say that for days
