The Cambridge Companion to Postmodern American Fiction

This is another handy-sized volume in the Cambridge Companions series with a chronology of relevant events from 1960. However, this only reaches 2014, so misses out on the election of Donald Trump to the White House, which is living history at the moment but an omission for future scholars unless there is an updated volume soon.

It is important for a book with a title such as this to define terms, and Paula Geyh does this in the introduction, not only defining postmodernity but also stating the book’s perspective that “we are still somewhere in its midst” (p. 2), despite...