Editor

Eira Vasenholm

Genre essays and trope deep-dives

Eira writes the long-form pieces on the Great Novels blog — the ones that take apart why mafia romance keeps coming back, what makes enemies-to-lovers actually land, and how a second-chance arc rewires a reader's brain. She is drawn to the parts of a story most people skim past, and writes the kind of essay that changes how you read the next book.