I'm thrilled to have my essay, "World-Gothic and the Sublime" included in this outstanding collection out in February 2026, edited by Rebecca Duncan and Rebekah Cumpsty. CUP description: "Monsters have always swarmed around the frontiers of colonialism and capitalism, from Europe's invasion and occupation of the Americas to the planetary emergency of the present day. In this volume, we discover how the early British Gothic – far from a progenitor – is in fact a belated cultural response to capitalist modernity, one anticipated by myriad spectres haunting the plantations of the 'New World'.

As primarily a literary fiction reader, with a few forays into spy novels (Le Carre) or detective novels (Christie), and whole lot of TV spy/police procedurals under my belt, the overriding impression for me is that this is a Kafkaesque tale of Wallander losing his relatively innocent and privileged Western outlook on life rather than a traditional cop story. Ironically--and this is what I found least believable--as a policeman W is rather naive, cloistered, even, about post-Soviet Baltic politics but even more so about the Latvian police corruption he is confronting.

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