Mar 4, 2019

Broadly speaking, the early twenty-first century is both increasingly global, and increasingly shaped by digital technology.

Mar 4, 2019

An Interview with Daniel O’Gorman and Robert Eaglestone on publishing The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Literary Fiction.

Mar 4, 2019

If the hype is to be believed, “millennials” have finally found their literary standard-bearer in Irish author Sally Rooney [ ...]

Mar 4, 2019

Scholarship on the contemporary has a unique relationship to questions of canonicity and value. [...]

Mar 4, 2019

We are delighted to be presenting you with the first new issue of Alluvium, which is relaunching as a graduate-run journal affiliated to the British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies (BACLS).

Jan 9, 2019

After a short hiatus, we are delighted to share a call for submissions for the relaunch of Alluvium as a partner journal of the British Association of Contemporary Literary Studies.

Nov 16, 2017

The question of how to write about a murderer whose final days were tracked by 24 hour rolling news channels and the internet is considered by Andrew Hankinson in his non-fiction novel...

May 31, 2017

With its vast storage capacity for digitising the majority of canonised literary works, the Internet offers a wide variety of resources for contemporary readers. Unsurprisingly, the digital medium...