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Issue 8.2 (July 2020) – Special Issue “Locating the Centre in Contemporary Literature”
- Alluvium Editorial 8.2: Locating the Centre in Contemporary Literature
- Class, Authenticity and Centrism
- Decentring the “Scumbag” Veteran
- The Centrality of the Trivial
- Now “The Fact That” Then
Issue 8.1 (May 2020)
- Alluvium Editorial 8.1
- Post-National Authors, Post-National Literature? An Interview with David Szalay
- Returning to the Scene: Seriality and the Serial Killer in Mindhunter (2017-)
- Highlighting Invisible Media: Television Subtitles in the Split-Attention Economy
- Conference Review: New Research on American Literature and Neoliberalism
Issue 7.5 (December 2019) – Special Issue “Contemporary Storytelling and Seriality”
- Alluvium Editorial 7.5: Contemporary Storytelling and Seriality
- Transmissions: From Manga to Fandom
- Dynamic Storytelling in Episodic Videogames
- “The great connective”: Contemporaneous Storytelling and Emergent Seriality in Ali Smith’s Seasonal.
- Distancing Affect in Fleabag
Issue 7.4 (August 2019)
- Alluvium Editorial 7.4
- Queer Kinship in Jackie Kay’s The Adoption Papers (1991)
- Afrofuturism in Danez Smith’s Black Movie
- European Literature—made in the UK?
- Neoliberal Breakdowns: the Biopolitics of the Monstrous
Issue 7.3 (July 2019) – Special Issue “The Global Contemporary and the Ecological”
- Alluvium Editorial 7.3
- Motherhood as Ecological Metaphor
- Ecolarchy as Missional Leadership “From the Margins”
- The Traumatised Shaman: The Woman Writer in the Age of Globalised Trauma
- Reproducing the Patriarchal Anthropocene
- Exorcizing the Ghosts of Dead Futures: Fisher in the Anthropocene
- Infrastructural Futures in Chinese Science Fiction
- Sham(an) Songbird
Issue 7.2 (April 2019)
- Alluvium Editorial 7.2
- On “Creative Industries and Cultural Democracy”
- The Author Returns
- “The Beautiful Game” in Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric
- Digitisation and the Death of the Real
Issue 7.1 (March 2019) – Alluvium Relaunch
- Alluvium Editorial 7.1: Relaunch
- Digital Media and the Global Contemporary
- Mapping the Contemporary
- Identifying with Our Contemporaries
- Contemporary Canonicity (or, what not to read)
Issue 6.2 (May 2017)
- Book Apps and Digital Textuality
- Deep State and the Future of Theatre
- With Love from Iceland
- Will 2017 be 1984?
Issue 6.1 (March 2017) – Special Issue “Contemporary Speculative Fiction”
- Contemporary Speculative Fiction
- The Altermundos of Latin@futurism
- Jordan Krall’s Speculative Fiction
- Martin MacInnes and Celtic SF
- Speculative Resistance in Lost Girls
Issue 5.5 (October 2016)
- Pod People: Brave New Worlds of Digital Audio Drama
- Infrastructure and the Anthropocene in Tom McCarthy’s Satin Island
- Bollywood Adaptations of Agatha Christie
- Literary Annotation, from Poe to Twitter
Issue 5.4 (July 2016) – Special Issue “Nuclear Narratives”
- Alluvium Editorial 5.4: Nuclear Narratives
- The Futures of Nuclear Criticism
- Documentary Film and Our Restless Nuclear Present
- Haunting Clouds
- Representations of National Identity in Cold War UK and US Civil Defence Films
Issue 5.3 (May 2016)
- What Game Worlds Can Teach Us About Literary Worlds
- The Contemporary Historical Novel & the Novel of Contemporary History
- The Semblances of Roberto Bolaño
- Consuming Television’s Golden Age with Hannibal Lecter
Issue 5.2 (March 2016)
- Responding to the Chance of Space in Marshland
- Medieval Jesus Fan Fiction
- Crossing the Line: Characters’ Re/actions as a Driving Force of Narrative
- On the Political Aesthetics of Metadata
Issue 5.1 (January 2016)
- Caring about things in Siri Hustvedt’s The Blindfold
- Duration Without Breaks: Marclay and McQueen Against the Clock
- Re-imagining Bluebeard’s Wives: Helen Oyeyemi’s Mr Fox
- Siri Hustvedt’s The Blazing World: Does Art Have a Gender Identity?
Issue 4.5 (October 2015)
- Queerversity: Desire and Sexuality in China Miéville’s Fiction
- Everybody Wants Some: Sexual Energy and the American Avant-garde
- Photographing the Flag
- Fake Flesh: Black Mirror and Ex Machina
Issue 4.4 (September 2015)
- Kendrick Lamar and the Dialectics of Performing Hip Hop
- 9/11 Fiction and the Death of Irony
- Loud Fictions: Noise in the Contemporary American Novel
- Peak Oil in the Popular Imagination
Issue 4.3 (Juni 2015)
- A Unified Scene? Global Fictions in the C21
- Celebrity and Surveillance in ‘There But For The’
- Towards a Taxonomy of Edgelands Literature
- Original Modern or a New Kind of Ordinary?
Issue 4.2 (May 2015)
- Editorial – Global Conflict
- Displaced Perspective
- Drones and Dissociation
- Pixels/Tissue – Drone Wars and Suicide Attacks
Issue 4.1 (February 2015)
- Litter, Landscape and The Road
- Reconsidering Quarantine in Invasion Narratives
- A Terrible Precariousness
- The Legitimacy of Literary Opinion
Issue 3.2 (October 2014)
Issue 3.1 (September 2014) – Special Issue “Critical Environments”
- Editorial: Critical Environments
- Re-Approaching Urban Nature
- Changing the Climate of Writing
- Performing Carbon (in the) Capital
- The Thoughts in our Head: A World
Issue 2.6 (December 2013)
- Digital Metaphors: Editor’s Introduction
- An Ontology of Everything on the Face of the Earth
- The Electronic Heart
- The Metaphorics of Virtual Depth
Issue 2.5 (October 2013)
- Incipience and the Historical Subject
- Comics and Page Bleeds
- Shakespeare on Television, this Millennium
- Hypodermics at the fin-de-siècle
Issue 2.4 (July 2013) – Special Issue “Thatcher’s Legacies”
- Thatcher’s Legacies: Editor’s Introduction
- Margaret Thatcher in the 21st Century
- The Allure of the 1980s
- Utopia Loops, Ghost Legacies
- Gordon Burn and Mrs T
Issue 2.3 (May 2013)
- Are Video Game Narratives Postmodern?
- Recovering Nostalgia in Nature Writing
- Identity and Consciousness in Dial H
- DeLillo, Aesthetics, The Cold Iraq War
Issue 2.2 (March 2013)
- Explorations in the Ergodic
- Somaesthetics and Literary Criticism
- Re-Writing Belfast
- Remix Culture and the Literary Mashup
Issue 2.1 (January 2013)
- Railways and Fiction
- Diverse Suburbias
- Shakespeare in the English National Curriculum
- Panel Transitions in Trauma Comics
Issue 1.7 (December 2012)
- The Short Story: A Print Culture Reading
- A New Century of Trauma?
- ‘Planetarity’ and Pakistani Post-9/11 Fiction
- Insurgent Subliteratures: Fictions of Resistance
Issue 1.6 (November 2012)
- Extraordinary Renditions: Voicing Opposition to War
- Fifty Shades of the Future
- Superhumanity: Refiguring the Superhero
- Social Media Memory
Issue 1.5 (October 2012)
- The Third Reich in Contemporary Fiction
- Androids in the Academy
- Ulysses as an RPG
- America and America
Issue 1.4 (September 2012)
- Human Nature: Pastoral in the Anthropocene
- Departures: The Novel, the Non-Place and the Airport
- Transgression and Contemporary Fiction
- Intermediality: Middling and Meddle English
Issue 1.3 (August 2012)
- Sherlock Hound and the Transnational
- Still Here: Post-Millennial Metafiction and Crypto-Didacticism
- Making Art in Dystopia
- Authentic Violence: The Case for Autofiction
Issue 1.2 (July 2012)
- On Nuclear Criticism
- Backwards and Forwards with the Atomic Priesthood
- Transfixed: The Radical Feminist Body
- Gaming and the Novel
Issue 1.1 (June 2012)