Trends and transitions in contemporary German-language writing by women / Valerie Heffernan & Gillian Pye
The re-construction and deconstruction of a family narrative: Eva Menasse's Vienna / Daphne Seemann
No place like home? Eleonora Hummel and the Russian German past / Linda Shortt
Perspectives on the borderline: Julia Franck's Lagerfeuer / Valerie Heffernan
Sewing an account of oneself: materiality, femininity, and Germaness in Larissa Boehning's Lichte Stoffe / Emily Jeremiah
Jenny Erpenbeck and the life of things / Gillian Pye
New-economy zombies: Kathrin Röggla's wir schlafen nicht / Elaine Martin
Illness, creativity and self-discovery in Lea Gottheil's Sommervogel / Siobhan Donovan
Writing on the threshold: memory, language and identity in Kathrin Schmidt's Du stirbst nicht / Deirdre Byrnes
Politicising desire in Juli Zeh's Spieltrieb / Carrie Smith-Prei & Lars Richter
Cartographies of self: Ilma Rakusa's autobiographical narrative Mehr Meer. Erinnerungspassagen / Carmel Finnan.