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Contents: Rachel Ablow/Introduction: Belief and Disbelief after Secularization Daniel Hack/Why Always That Dorothea? Realism and the Rise of Meaning Colin Jager/ The Suspension of Disbelief, Again Timothy Bewes/ "Things Can Always Be otherwise": Believing (in) Twenty-First-Century Fiction Deidre Lynch/Believing in Novels: Hoax, Hocus, and the Fictionality of the Gothic Ian Duncan/ Excessive Belief: Transport and Immersion in Nineteenth-Century Historical Ficton Ayelet Ben-Yishai/ "A Look She Cannot Read": Novelistic Epistemology between Genre and Narrative Mode in Paul Lynch's Prophet Song Amy Hollywood: Henry James, Minny Temple, and the 'Demon of the Why, Whence, and Whither"

In time for April Fool's Day, which may be apt, my article on Gothic fiction and #18thc hoaxing has appeared in Novel, in a banger of an issue on Belief in Fiction, co-ed by @danielhack.bsky.social & Rachel Ablow.
Take a look at this exciting t.o.c. I'm grateful to be in such great company.

I'm thrilled that this is now in the world: a special issue of NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, guest-edited by Rachel Ablow and me, on "Belief in Fiction." Wherein we are joined by a dream team of contributors: Colin Jager, Tim Bewes, Deidre Lynch, Ian Duncan, Ayelet Ben-Yishai, and Amy Hollywood.

I am very glad to have been the occasion of this new series for C21 Literature. Huge thanks to Alex Houen, Leonid Bilmes, Laura A. Zander, and Adam Kelly for their engagements with Free Indirect, and to Denise Wong and Oli Haslam for the invitation to respond.

Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory Volume 25, Issue 3 of Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory

New issue of Distinktion is out! With a fantastic special section on Lukács and the Critique of Capitalism, including papers by Alberto Toscano @alfatau.bsky.social, Timothy Bewes and Arthur Bueno, www.tandfonline.com/toc/rdis20/c...

My Plea to Kamala Dear Vice President Harris:

good morning to Michael Moore, who wrote an open letter actually worth reading

"Now, please, let’s make sure you win by winning the state of Michigan! Let our Arab+Muslim neighbors hear that you are with them in standing for peace + for creating a new way."

www.michaelmoore.com/p/my-plea-to...

Thanks for the response and the tip, Deidre. Must read Wright!

Totality and incoherence: for a shared project of novel theory and black studies This article considers two questions asked by two very different thinkers through a concept that only one of them uses, and only in a nontechnical sense: ‘totality’: What is the basis of the novel’...

Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory has published a selection of pieces on Georg Lukács, including mine on Lukács and James Baldwin (@100). Thanks to @arthurbueno.bsky.social, Simon Gurisch, and Cillian Ó Fathaigh. Read here for free: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ZGM3W...

When one publishes a book, one longs to be reviewed by scholars of the stature of @michaellucey.bsky.social. Thank you, Genre @dukepress.bsky.social, for the opportunity to respond. “Secondary Utterances: A Response to Michael Lucey” is available now. doi.org/10.1215/0016...

1/5 After three years of editing, annotating, headnote writing, and permissions getting, it is completely thrilling to hold a physical copy of Vol. F of The Norton Anthology of English Literature in my hands! A thread on its new features:

I'm looking forward to talking with Grant Farred, Jack Dudley, Jeanne-Marie Jackson, Pratistha Bhattarai and Matthew Mutter about Coetzee's The Pole at MLA -- in 40 minutes! A Just in Time session. mla.confex.com/mla/2024/mee...

For the launch of its online forum, differences has published a short essay that began life as a contribution to Muriel Spark @ 101, at Harvard's Novel Theory seminar, hosted by @drbibliomane.bsky.social. Thank you to two extraordinary academic communities.