Recent Experiments in American Fiction Available to Purchase

Just when the political stakes of truth and falsity in the United States seem to be higher than ever, many American writers are exploring a conceptual space located “on the very edge of fiction,” as one author puts it. Are such strategies still readable in ideological terms, or are they better understood as a loss of the critical standpoint from which ideological reading might take place? This article outlines the need for a critical practice capable of meeting the formal and ideological challenges of contemporary American fiction and takes the first steps toward imagining such a practice.