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Front Cover: Deanne Bergsma as The Hostess in Les Biches. Photograph taken by RoyRound, public domain CC0.

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MFS publishes scholarly essays that analyze the important aesthetic, cultural, political, and environmental developments currently shaping today’s academic and public conversations. A leading international literature and humanities journal, MFS focuses on the various modalities and uses of fiction in the broadest sense of the term—publishing material designed to speak to a wide audience of scholars, public intellectuals, and cultural practitioners working across diverse fields, regions, and venues. Now in its sixty-eighth year, MFS is published by Johns Hopkins University Press and is available online at Project MUSE.

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“Secretly Proustian”: Les Biches, Mrs. Dalloway, and In Search of Lost Time

Patty Argyrides

pp. 421-449

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2025.a971364

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A “Usable Past”: Teju Cole’s Open City and the Fictions of Memory

Thomas Heise

pp. 450-473

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2025.a971365

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“Gazing at the View”: The Prospects of Nature Poetry in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando

Rachael Isom

pp. 474-499

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2025.a971366

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Scholars vs. Critics: Henry James, The Aspern Papers, and Professional Vocation

Philipp Loeffler

pp. 500-520

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2025.a971367

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The Habsburg Myth and the Production of Space in Joseph Roth’s Job: The Story of a Simple Man

Ariel Pridan

pp. 521-547

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2025.a971368

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The Hidden Ending of Julian Barnes’s The Sense of an Ending

Brian Richardson

pp. 548-564

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2025.a971389

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Unwinding Nella Larsen’s Quicksand and Ariadne’s Quest: Helga Crane’s Sacrifice to the Minotaur of Racial Uplift

Bonnie Roos

pp. 565-589

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2025.a971369

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“In Full Holocaust”: Gravity’s Rainbow and the Absent Atrocity

Eric Sandberg

pp. 590-613

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2025.a971370

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Rethinking Modernity: An Essay-Review

Stephen Ross, Kiera Bandy

pp. 614-620

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2025.a971371

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The Promise of Welfare in the Postwar British and Anglophone Novel: States of Repair by Kelly M. Rich (review)

Jackson Ayres

pp. 622-625

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2025.a971372

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Signs of Disability by Stephanie L. Kerschbaum (review)

Dev K. Bose

pp. 626-629

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2025.a971373

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Love, Friendship, and Narrative Form After Bloomsbury: The Progress of Intimacy in History by Jesse Wolfe (review)

Geneviève Brassard

pp. 629-632

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2025.a971374

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1948: A Critical and Creative Prequel to George Orwell’s 1984 by Brian May (review)

Martha C. Carpentier

pp. 632-635

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2025.a971375

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Fugitive Time: Global Aesthetics and the Black Beyond by Matthew Omelsky (review)

Anthony Gottlich

pp. 635-638

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2025.a971376

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The Story of Fictional Truth: Realism from the Death to the Rise of the Novel by Paul Dawson (review)

Rae Greiner

pp. 638-641

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2025.a971377

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The Chapter: A Segmented History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century by Nicholas Dames (review)

Andrew Koenig

pp. 641-645

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2025.a971378

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Ugly White People: Writing Whiteness in Contemporary America by Stephanie Li (review)

Kathy Lou Schultz

pp. 645-648

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2025.a971379

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Rethinking Racial Uplift: Rhetorics of Black Unity and Disunity in the Obama Era by Nigel I. Malcolm (review)

Shantella Sherman

pp. 648-652

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2025.a971380

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Afterlives of Letters: The Transnational Origins of Modern Literature in China, Japan, and Korea by Satoru Hashimoto (review)

Lu Sun

pp. 652-655

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2025.a971381

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Modernism, Material Culture and the First World War by Cedric Van Dijck (review)

Steven Trout

pp. 655-658

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2025.a971382

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Contributors

pp. 659-660

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2025.a971383

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