Katharine Coldiron

Katharine Coldiron is the author of Ceremonials (2020), a novella inspired by Florence + the Machine, and Junk Film: Why Bad Movies Matter (2023), a collection of essays about bad movies. Her essays and criticism have appeared in Ms., Conjunctions, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Rumpus, and many other places. Find her at kcoldiron.com or on Twitter @ferrifrigida.

Articles

There’s No Such Thing as a Guilty Pleasure
Katharine Coldiron ponders why we love the bad art we love.
Katharine ColdironJun 24, 2023
- Literary Criticism
- Memoir & Essay
Cinema in a Little Mirror: The Hays Code and Cultural Dysphoria
Katharine Coldiron looks at the cultural dysphoria caused by the Hays Code in US cinema.
Katharine ColdironMay 3, 2023
- Film
White Writers’ Omission of Race: Jess Row’s “White Flights: Race Fiction, and The American Imagination”
"White Flights" is a faultlessly argued collection of essays about how whiteness dominates the American literary imagination.
Katharine ColdironSep 11, 2019
- Cultural Studies
- Literary Criticism
Fractured Origins in Esmé Weijun Wang’s “The Collected Schizophrenias”
Katharine Coldiron on Esmé Weijun Wang’s prize-winning essay collection, “The Collected Schizophrenias," which joins the schizophrenia memoir canon.
Katharine ColdironFeb 5, 2019
- Memoir & Essay
A Layover in Greenlandic Fiction Via Niviaq Korneliussen’s “Last Night in Nuuk”
Katharine Coldiron explores the Greenland of Niviaq Korneliussen’s “Last Night in Nuuk” and finds the writing immature but promising.
Katharine ColdironJan 15, 2019
- Around the World
- Fiction
The Whole Human Tapestry: Sjón’s Sprawling “CoDex 1962” Trilogy
Katharine Coldiron decodes Icelandic author Sjón’s “CoDex 1962,” a “risky, funny, sexy, entirely unique book.”
Katharine ColdironOct 4, 2018
- Around the World
- Fiction
Breaking Out of Narrative Prison in Debra Jo Immergut’s “The Captives”
Katharine Coldiron admires the structural audacity of Debra Jo Immergut’s prison-bound psychological thriller.
Katharine ColdironJun 20, 2018
- Fiction
Deft Hand, Cold Heart: Rita Bullwinkel’s Debut “Belly Up”
Katharine Coldiron finds Rita Bullwinkel’s debut story collection skillful but distant.
Katharine ColdironMay 8, 2018
- Fiction
Identity as Irreconcilable Collage in Carl Frode Tiller’s Epic “Encircling” Trilogy
Katharine Coldiron finds Carl Frode Tiller’s “Encircling 2” an incomparable intellectual escapade.
Katharine ColdironApr 1, 2018
- Around the World
- Fiction