Thomas Claviez, Introduction: Neo-Realism and How to “Make It New”
Günter Leypoldt, Recent Realist Fiction and the Idea of Writing “After Postmodernism”
Christof Decker, Faces in the Mirror: Raymond Carver and the Intricacies of Looking
Phillip E. Wegner, October 3, 1951 to September 11, 2001: Periodizing the Cold War in Don DeLillo’s Underworld
Martin Weinreich, “Into the Void”: The Hyperrealism of Simulation in Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho
Maria Moss, The Search for Sanctuary: Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping and E. Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News
Susanne Rohr, “The Tyranny of the Probable”—Crackpot Realism and Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections