Ryan Carroll is a PhD candidate in English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He researches information and narrative in 19th-century British, American, and Caribbean literature. His writing has appeared in Public Books, The New Inquiry, and NCR.
Ryan Carroll
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Writing on Public Books
“The Pitt”: How Corny Can Crisis Get?
The show is chained to the social discourse beyond it, to online conversations and headlines and talking-head commentary and all the voluminous language through which we engage with social crises.
A Translation the Size of the World
“Translators and writers must fight through the “labyrinth of [the] imagination,” find their way through their private language toward a text’s new picture of reality.”
