Tobias Carroll

Finalist for the Big Other Book Award for Nonfiction 2020 Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. In an election year, political signs can be impossible to avoid. They’re in front yards, on bumper stickers, and in some places you might never have expected. Tobias Carroll chronicles the permutations and...

A minute-by-minute analysis of Ben Wheatley's film, Kill List (2011). 2011’s Kill List, directed by Ben Wheatley and written by Wheatley and Amy Jump, provides an almost alchemical space by which audiences can watch as one genre transforms into another—from crime drama to paranoid thriller to terrifying folk horror—before our eyes. Narrative misdirection abounds in this film, but Wheatley and...

A minute-by-minute analysis of Ben Wheatley's film, Kill List (2011). 2011’s Kill List, directed by Ben Wheatley and written by Wheatley and Amy Jump, provides an almost alchemical space by which audiences can watch as one genre transforms into another—from crime drama to paranoid thriller to terrifying folk horror—before our eyes. Narrative misdirection abounds in this film, but Wheatley and...