'The word ‘bleak’ has often dogged J.M. Coetzee’s fiction. Placing his most recent book of short stories within his complete oeuvre, Ellena Savage uncovers the comic sensibility that suffuses Coetzee’s treatment of sex, morals, and civilisation.' (Introduction)
'With characteristic allegorical obliquity, Yumna Kassab shows how the thematics of haunting and possession in ghost stories offer a way to address the historical nightmares that continue to grip us in the present.' (Introduction)
'Do ‘viral’ essays still hold up in print? Catriona Menzies-Pike considers the recent books of two critics – Lauren Oyler and Becca Rothfeld – who forged their reputations in a digital literary culture whose channels of circulation are now closing.' (Introduction)
