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New Issue
71.4 (Winter 2025)
General Issue
- Articles
- Andy Carolin, “Conceptualizing Peripheral Sexualities in Historical Fiction from Northern Ireland”
- A. C. Facundo, “Free Association and Empathy in Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant: A Case for Postcritical Psychoanalysis”
- Anthony Gomez III, “Olfactory Ecologies: Investigating Oil’s Smelly Residues in Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep”
- Naomi Kim-Yu, “Antoinette Cosway’s Martyrdom: Catholicism and the ‘Triumphant’ Ending of Wide Sargasso Sea”
- Michael Lackey, “Metaphorized (Not Real) Lives in Hong Ying’s K: The Art of Love”
- Allen MacDuffie, “Diminishing Returns: Henry James, Alice Munro, and the Foreshortened Future”
- Jack Quirk, “Gerald Murnane’s Terra Nullius”
- Erin A. Smith, “Theorizing Gender, Crime Fiction, and the State: The Case of Dorothy B. Hughes’s The Blackbirder”
- Reviews
- Michela Borzaga, “Difficult Reading: Frustration and Form in Anglophone Caribbean Fiction by Jason R. Marley”
- Angela Calcaterra, “Book Anatomy: Body Politics and the Materiality of Indigenous Book History by Amy Gore”
- Samuel Cohen, “Writing Backwards: Historical Fiction and the Reshaping of the American Canon by Alexander Manshel”
- Francesca Coppa, “Before Fanfiction: Recovering the Literary History of American Media Fandom by Alexandra Edwards”
- Paula Derdiger, “Spectrality in Modernist Fiction by Stephen Ross”
- Ningning Huang, “Asian American Players: Masculinity, Literature, and the Anxieties of War by Audrey Wu Clark”
- Mark Noonan, “Writing Against Reform: Aesthetic Realism in the Progressive Era by Arielle Zibrak”
- David P. Rando, “British Modernism and the Anthropocene: Experiments with Time by David Shackleton”
- Bryan M. Santin, “Toni Morrison: Imagining Freedom by Lawrie Balfour”
- Stefan Schöberlein, “Civic Storytelling: The Rise of Short Forms and the Agency of Literature by Florian Fuchs”
- Rasheed Tazudeen, “From Empire to Anthropocene: The Novel in Posthistorical Times by Betty Joseph”
- Dong Xia, “Post-Postmodernist Fiction and the Rise of Digital Epitexts by Virginia Pignagnoli”
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