Modern Fiction Studies

Volume 72.3 is here. You can read more to find more information about what is included in this volume.
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Robert P. Marzec, Editor

Maren Linett, Associate Editor

Frida Beckman, Managing Editor

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New Issue

72.3 (Fall 2026)

General Issue

  • Essays
    • 2025 Margaret Church MFS Memorial Prize
    • Eyal Amiran, "Isabelle Eberhardt's Uncanny Travel"
    • Leo Kadakura, "Distant Chimeras: John Galsworthy, the Edwardian Novel, and the Contradictions of Internationalism"
    • Heather Ray Milligan, "Contemporary Oil Fiction: From Exuberance to Exhaustion"
    • Safaa Mohamed, "Ecocritical Anthropocenes in Elif Shafak's The Island of Missing Trees: Literary Gardens as Counter-Archival Spaces"
    • Christopher Morris, "Repressing the Absence of the Truth: Walter Mosley's Devil in a Blue Dress"
    • Lamia Tayeb, "J. M. Coetzee's Ecopoetics and Environmental Ethics: A New Materialist Reading of Life & Times of Michael K and The Lives of Animals"
    • Olivia Lingyi Xu, "Nobody's English; or the Atypicality of East Asian Anglophone Literature"
  • Book Reviews
    • Joanna Falk, "Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert by Sunaura Taylor"
    • Randi Gill-Sadler, "The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture by Courtney Thorsson"
    • Elana Gomel, "Novels by Aliens: Weird Tales and the Twenty-First Century by Kate Marshall"
    • Lucy Valerie Graham, "J. M. Coetzee and the Limits of the Novel by John Bolin"
    • Caroline Hsu, "Surface Relations: Queer Forms of Asian American Inscrutability by Vivian L. Huang"
    • Sean Latham, "Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study by John Guillory"
    • Garry Leonard, "The Child Sex Scandal and Modern Irish Literature: Writing the Unspeakable by Joseph Valente and Margot Gayle Backus"
    • Akemi Nishida, "Radical Health: Unwellness, Care, and Latinx Expressive Culture by Julie Avril Minich"
    • Lisa Outar, "Matria Redux: Caribbean Women Novelize the Past by Tegan Zimmerman"
    • Fernanda Zullo-Ruiz, "Deformative Fictions: Cruelty and Narrative Ethics in Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature by Ashley Hope Pérez"

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