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‘It’s Not My Life’: Social Mobility and the Melancholia of Class in Naomi Booth’s Exit Management and Natasha Brown’s Assembly
‘It’s Not My Life’: Social Mobility and the Melancholia of Class in Naomi Booth’s Exit Management and Natasha Brown’s Assembly

Mx Konstantin Helm and Prof. Dr. Mark Schmitt

Volume 13 • Issue 1 • 2026 • Summer 2026

Layers of Time: Ethics, Metaphor, and Climate Change in Ian McEwan’s What We Can Know
Layers of Time: Ethics, Metaphor, and Climate Change in Ian McEwan’s What We Can Know

Prof. Marco Caracciolo

Volume 13 • Issue 1 • 2026 • Summer 2026

The Poetics and Aesthetics of Migration: New Directions in Twenty-First-Century Mobility Literature
The Poetics and Aesthetics of Migration: New Directions in Twenty-First-Century Mobility Literature

Rahul Bishnoi

Volume 13 • Issue 1 • 2026 • Summer 2026

Helen Oyeyemi’s Exquisite Corpses: Race, Authorial Multiplicity, and Aleatory Play in Boy, Snow, Bird
Helen Oyeyemi’s Exquisite Corpses: Race, Authorial Multiplicity, and Aleatory Play in Boy, Snow, Bird

Cynthia Quarrie

Volume 13 • Issue 1 • 2026 • Summer 2026

Review Essay: Reading Monsters and Mutants in Kaisa Kortekallio’s Mutant Narratives in Ecological Science Fiction: Thinking with Embodied Estrangement (Bloomsbury 2023) and Emily Horton’s 21st-Century British Gothic: The Monstrous, Spectral, and Uncanny in Contemporary Fiction (Bloomsbury 2024)
Review Essay: Reading Monsters and Mutants in Kaisa Kortekallio’s Mutant Narratives in Ecological Science Fiction: Thinking with Embodied Estrangement (Bloomsbury 2023) and Emily Horton’s 21st-Century British Gothic: The Monstrous, Spectral, and Uncanny in Contemporary Fiction (Bloomsbury 2024)

Svetlana Stefanova

Volume 13 • Issue 1 • 2026 • Summer 2026

Threats Without and Within: The Limits of Riskless Risk in the Contemporary American Sports Novel
Threats Without and Within: The Limits of Riskless Risk in the Contemporary American Sports Novel

Tommaso Villa

Volume 13 • Issue 1 • 2026 • Summer 2026

Review Essay: Capitalism, Exceptionalist Nationalism, and Alternative Communities in Contemporary Fiction
Review Essay: Capitalism, Exceptionalist Nationalism, and Alternative Communities in Contemporary Fiction

Yian Zhu

Volume 13 • Issue 1 • 2026 • Summer 2026

‘A terrific waste’: White Teeth from recurrence to accretion
‘A terrific waste’: White Teeth from recurrence to accretion

Frankie Hines

Volume 13 • Issue 1 • 2026 • Summer 2026

Review Essay: Arab Women’s Writing as Acts of Resistance
Review Essay: Arab Women’s Writing as Acts of Resistance

Mx Mortada Haidar

Volume 13 • Issue 1 • 2026 • Summer 2026

Unfolding Ruptures: Brexlit and the Contemporary
Unfolding Ruptures: Brexlit and the Contemporary

Mandy Beck

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

The Shakespeare Test: Twenty-First Century Literature, Shakespeare, and AI in Machines Like Me
The Shakespeare Test: Twenty-First Century Literature, Shakespeare, and AI in Machines Like Me

Kirsten Sandrock

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

The Literary Sad Girl: Female Disaffect and Passive Dissent in 21st-Century Anglophone Fiction
The Literary Sad Girl: Female Disaffect and Passive Dissent in 21st-Century Anglophone Fiction

Dilâra Yilmaz

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

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)