Congratulations to our eminent Editor of Poetry and Poetics, Evie Shockley (Evie Shockley), on this much deserved recognition!

Contemporary Literature issue 65.1 is now available, featuring exciting new work from Chijioke K. Onah, Paul Dawson, Ryan Hibbett, Sam Weselowski, Michael Gavin, and Daniel Ryan Morse. Read it here: cl.uwpress.org/content/current

Issue 65.1 highlight 📍Chijioke K. Onah interviews Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, "arguably the most critical intellectual voice from the continent writing about Boko Haram terrorism in Nigeria." cl.uwpress.org/content/current

Issue 65.1 highlight 🤖 Michael Gavin collaborates with ChatGPT to write "Literary Theory in the Age of Artificial Intelligence," a review of Dennis Yi Tenen's *Literary Theory for Robots: How Computers Learned to Write* (2024). Click here for more: cl.uwpress.org/content/current

CFP: Contemporary Literature seeks scholarly essays on post–World War II literature written in English which offer scope, supply a new dimension to conventional approaches, or transform customary ways of reading writers. Recent articles: …-uwpress-org.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/content/call-p…

CL 65.2 is shaping up to be an exciting issue. Remember to follow us at cl-journal.bsky.social for future updates on releases, issue highlights, and more!

Contemporary Literature issue 65.2 is out now, featuring exciting new work on autofiction, workplace novels, food writing, and more! Contributors include Marek Makowski, Huw Marsh, Kristi Maxwell, Siobhan Phillips, and Daniel Weston. 🗞️ Read it here: cl.uwpress.org/content/current

Issue 65.2 highlight: Siobhan Phillips takes on culinary labor and the cookbook in Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor's "Vibration Cooking." 🍳Read it here: cl.uwpress.org/content/current

How do modern managerialism, short-termism, and the information economy shape narrative resistance to work and capital? Huw Marsh offers a salient analysis in our read of the week: "'Bullshit' Jobs and Ticklish Comedy: Humor and Sadness in the Contemporary Novel."

How does autofiction contend with technologically mediated ways of seeing and projecting the self? In our read of the week, Marek Makowski produces “A New Exercise in Looking”: Experiments in Autofiction and the Novels of Olga Tokarczuk. Read it here: cl.uwpress.org/content/current

CL 65.3 is shaping up to be an exciting issue. Stay tuned this week for its release and remember to follow us at cl-journal.bsky.social for future updates on releases, issue highlights, and more!

Contemporary Literature issue 65.3 is out now, featuring new work by Charlie Ericson, Sam Ladkin, Corinna Norrick-Rühl, Alexander Starre, Matt Prout, and Martha Swift! Read it here: cl.uwpress.org/content/current

A new wave of Chinese science fiction "depict[s] waste, not ordered progress, as the substance of China’s contemporary reality and the genre’s primary concern." In issue 65.3, Martha Swift examines the underside of science fiction's high-tech futures. cl.uwpress.org/content/current

Corinna Norrick-Rühl and Alexander Starre go "book-clubbing" in their new #openaccess article: "Genre, Diversity, and Metanarrative in Reese's Book Club" cl.uwpress.org/content/current