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Introduction to the special issue: The Century at 25
Introduction to the special issue: The Century at 25

Alice Bennett, Arin Keeble, Melissa Schuh and Denise Wong

Volume 12 • Issue 3 • 2026 • The Century at 25

Stuck on Stuckness: On the Intractability of the Present
Stuck on Stuckness: On the Intractability of the Present

Alice Bennett, Arin Keeble, Dr Melissa Schuh and Denise Wong

Volume 12 • Issue 3 • 2026 • The Century at 25

Technology and 21st Century Fiction: Resisting/Embracing an Impending Irrelevance
Technology and 21st Century Fiction: Resisting/Embracing an Impending Irrelevance

Mairi Power

Volume 12 • Issue 3 • 2026 • The Century at 25

The Stubborn Path of the Novel: Residual Modernism in Joseph O'Neill's Godwin
The Stubborn Path of the Novel: Residual Modernism in Joseph O'Neill's Godwin

Daniel Dufournaud

Volume 12 • Issue 3 • 2026 • The Century at 25

"Unstable, in Chaos": Reading Ali Smith’s How to Be Both and Percival Everett’s Telephone in the Age of Cruel Optimism
"Unstable, in Chaos": Reading Ali Smith’s How to Be Both and Percival Everett’s Telephone in the Age of Cruel Optimism

Gerald David Naughton and Yulia Pushkarevskaya Naughton

Volume 12 • Issue 3 • 2026 • The Century at 25

Fictions of the Wikipedian Fact: Facticity, Authority, and 21st-century Fiction
Fictions of the Wikipedian Fact: Facticity, Authority, and 21st-century Fiction

Kiron Ward

Volume 12 • Issue 3 • 2026 • The Century at 25

C21’s Roundtable Review of Timothy Bewes’s Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age (2022)
C21’s Roundtable Review of Timothy Bewes’s Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age (2022)

Timothy Bewes, Leonid Bilmes, Oliver Haslam, Alex Houen, Adam Kelly, Denise Wong and Laura A. Zander

Volume 12 • Issue 3 • 2026 • The Century at 25

Charged Readings and Momentous Expectations: The Curious Case of Climate Change Fiction
Charged Readings and Momentous Expectations: The Curious Case of Climate Change Fiction

Hanne Bolze

Volume 12 • Issue 3 • 2026 • The Century at 25

Editorial: Novel Media / Media Novel
Editorial: Novel Media / Media Novel

Sandro Eich and Dong Xia

Volume 12 • Issue 2 • 2025 • Novel Media / Media Novel (Autumn 2025)

Rethinking the Story so Far: Transmedial Considerations on Literariness and Narrativity
Rethinking the Story so Far: Transmedial Considerations on Literariness and Narrativity

Timea Meszaros

Volume 12 • Issue 2 • 2025 • Novel Media / Media Novel (Autumn 2025)

‘Yours in Speech (and Speakos)’: Automatic Speech Recognition as Writing Technology in Richard Powers’s Literary Practice
‘Yours in Speech (and Speakos)’: Automatic Speech Recognition as Writing Technology in Richard Powers’s Literary Practice

Lisa van Straten

Volume 12 • Issue 2 • 2025 • Novel Media / Media Novel (Autumn 2025)

Transmedial Communication Across the Creative-Critical Divide—Creative-Critical Book Review
Transmedial Communication Across the Creative-Critical Divide—Creative-Critical Book Review

Devin Robert Tupper

Volume 12 • Issue 2 • 2025 • Novel Media / Media Novel (Autumn 2025)

The Digital Underclass Glitch: Theorising a Digital Labour Public through Fiction  
The Digital Underclass Glitch: Theorising a Digital Labour Public through Fiction  

Katy Dadacz

Volume 12 • Issue 2 • 2025 • Novel Media / Media Novel (Autumn 2025)

Counterfactuals and the Tumblr Aesthetic: Allegories of Reading in Frankenstein and The Locked Tomb
Counterfactuals and the Tumblr Aesthetic: Allegories of Reading in Frankenstein and The Locked Tomb

Madeleine McQuilling

Volume 12 • Issue 2 • 2025 • Novel Media / Media Novel (Autumn 2025)

‘I listen to plenty’: Digital Playlisting and Sonic Experience in Marlon James’s A Brief History of Seven Killings
‘I listen to plenty’: Digital Playlisting and Sonic Experience in Marlon James’s A Brief History of Seven Killings

Ed Garland

Volume 12 • Issue 2 • 2025 • Novel Media / Media Novel (Autumn 2025)

Cute Surveillance: Embodiment, Subjectivity, and Intimacy in Samanta Schweblin’s Little Eyes
Cute Surveillance: Embodiment, Subjectivity, and Intimacy in Samanta Schweblin’s Little Eyes

Tyne Daile Sumner

Volume 12 • Issue 2 • 2025 • Novel Media / Media Novel (Autumn 2025)

Review: Marco Caracciolo, Contemporary Fiction and Climate Uncertainty: Narrating Unstable Futures, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022; Henry Ivry, Transcalar Critique: Climate, Blackness, Crisis, Edinburgh University Press, 2022; Min Hyeong Song, Climate Lyricism, Duke University Press, 2021.
Review: Marco Caracciolo, Contemporary Fiction and Climate Uncertainty: Narrating Unstable Futures, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022; Henry Ivry, Transcalar Critique: Climate, Blackness, Crisis, Edinburgh University Press, 2022; Min Hyeong Song, Climate Lyricism, Duke University Press, 2021.

Sarah Louise Hopkinson

Volume 12 • Issue 2 • 2025 • Novel Media / Media Novel (Autumn 2025)

The Novel, Recycled: On Tom Comitta's The Nature Book (2023)
The Novel, Recycled: On Tom Comitta's The Nature Book (2023)

Michael Kalisch

Volume 12 • Issue 1 • 2025 • Spring-Summer 2025

Magic and Power: Ben Aaronovitch’s Multi-Level Approach
Magic and Power: Ben Aaronovitch’s Multi-Level Approach

Kathryn Hume

Volume 12 • Issue 1 • 2025 • Spring-Summer 2025

Soundscapes and Wordscapes: Music and Literature in Dialogue
Soundscapes and Wordscapes: Music and Literature in Dialogue

Can Çakır

Volume 12 • Issue 1 • 2025 • Spring-Summer 2025

Hope and dread in the here and now: A review essay
Hope and dread in the here and now: A review essay

Adrienne Mortimer

Volume 12 • Issue 1 • 2025 • Spring-Summer 2025

Carolin Gebauer, Making Time: World Construction in the Present-Tense Novel. DeGruyter, 2021.
Carolin Gebauer, Making Time: World Construction in the Present-Tense Novel. DeGruyter, 2021.

Busra Copuroglu

Volume 12 • Issue 1 • 2025 • Spring-Summer 2025

Christopher Lloyd and Hilary Emmett (eds.), The Affects of Pedagogy in Literary Studies. Routledge, 2023
Christopher Lloyd and Hilary Emmett (eds.), The Affects of Pedagogy in Literary Studies. Routledge, 2023

Gulsin Ciftci

Volume 12 • Issue 1 • 2025 • Spring-Summer 2025

The Spectre of Austerity in Up Lit: Mike Gayle’s All The Lonely People (2020) and Gail Honeyman’s Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine (2017)
The Spectre of Austerity in Up Lit: Mike Gayle’s All The Lonely People (2020) and Gail Honeyman’s Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine (2017)

Daisy Alice Powell

Volume 12 • Issue 1 • 2025 • Spring-Summer 2025

The Scottish Network Novel
The Scottish Network Novel

Timothy Baker

Volume 12 • Issue 1 • 2025 • Spring-Summer 2025