Part I. The Americas. "Right here in nowheres": American psycho and violence's critique / Naomi Mandel
Telling doubles and literal-minded reading in Bret Easton Ellis's Glamorama / Henrik Skov Nielsen
Posthumous voice and residual presence in Don DeLillo's The body artist / Mikko Keskinen
A post-apocalyptic world: the excremental, abject female warriors of Josée Yvon / Paula Ruth Gilbert with Colleen Lester
On the impossibility of being contemporary in Nelly Arcan's Folle / Martine Delvaux
Media-portrayed violence in Alberto Fuguet's Tinta roja / Jason Summers
Part II. Europe and the Middle East. Sadomasochism, castration and rape: Richard Morgiève's nightmare theater of primal scenes / Ralph Schoolcraft
Dantec's Inferno / Lawrence R. Schehr
Michel Houellebecq: a fin de siècle for the twentieth century / Sabine van Wesemael
Beyond the extreme: Frédéric Beigbeder's Windows on the world / Alain-Philippe Durand
Amélie Nothomb's dialectic of the sublime and the grotesque / Martine Guyot-Bender
Violence biting its own tail: Martin Amis's Yellow dog / Jean-Michel Ganteau
Beauty and death as simulacra in Ray Loriga's Caídos del cielo and El hombre que inventó Manhattan / Kathryn Everly
Sex, drugs and violence in Lucía Etxebarria's Amor, curiosidad, Prozac y dudas / Catherine Bourland Ross
On human parts: Orly Castel-Bloom and the Israeli extreme / Adia Mendelson-Maoz.