... Against the Day Mathematics and politics Anarchism Foundational crisis Imaginary numbers Twenty-first-century fiction Thomas Pynchon’s novel Against the Day (2006) is set in the period between the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair and the aftermath of the First World War. Akin...

... Mitchell David 1969– Shamsie Kamila 1973– Burnt Shadows Hamid Mohsin 1971– Cleave Chris 1973– Incendiary McGregor Jon 1976– If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things Butler Judith Cusk Rachel 1967– twenty-first-century fiction contemporary British and Irish novel globalized world literature...

...-century fiction twenty-first century fiction W. B. Yeats W. H. Auden Virginia Woolf William Faulkner Michael Ondaatje Byron’s self-conscious style and agile poetic selfhood still feels contemporary to present-day readers. Anticipating our latter-day concerns, Byron as poet is sensitive...