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MFS publishes scholarly essays that analyze the important aesthetic, cultural, political, and environmental developments currently shaping today’s academic and public conversations. A leading international literature and humanities journal, MFS focuses on the various modalities and uses of fiction in the broadest sense of the term—publishing material designed to speak to a wide audience of scholars, public intellectuals, and cultural practitioners working across diverse fields, regions, and venues. Now in its sixty-eighth year, MFS is published by Johns Hopkins University Press and is available online at Project MUSE.
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Volume 71, Number 4, Winter 2025Table of Contents
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View Free Association and Empathy in Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant: A Case for Postcritical Psychoanalysis
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View Theorizing Gender, Crime Fiction, and the State: The Case of Dorothy B. Hughes’s The Blackbirder
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View Difficult Reading: Frustration and Form in Anglophone Caribbean Fiction by Jason R. Marley (review)
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View Book Anatomy: Body Politics and the Materiality of Indigenous Book History by Amy Gore (review)
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View Writing Backwards: Historical Fiction and the Reshaping of the American Canon by Alexander Manshel (review)
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View Before Fanfiction: Recovering the Literary History of American Media Fandom by Alexandra Edwards (review)
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View Asian American Players: Masculinity, Literature, and the Anxieties of War by Audrey Wu Clark (review)
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View Civic Storytelling: The Rise of Short Forms and the Agency of Literature by Florian Fuchs (review)
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| ISSN | 1080-658X |
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| Print ISSN | 0026-7724 |
| Launched on MUSE | 2025-12-12 |
| Open Access | Yes |




