Focus: Endings — Spring 2026

Focus: Endings

Volume 47, Number 1
Spring 2026

Excerpts available through Project Muse; full articles available to Project Muse subscribers.

From the Editor

The Thirty-Five-Million-Dollar Book by Jeffrey R. Di Leo

Focus: Endings

How the End Always Is by Bryan Counter

Flann O’Brien and the End by Joseph LaBine

Nabokov, Terminable and Indeterminable by Sigi Jöttkandt

Closing Questions and UPA’s: The Tell-Tale Heart by Pamela L. Weidman

Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy: The NonSense of an Ending—With Apologies to Frank Kermode by Jim Owen

Gaelic Superheroes: Lessons in Loss by Natasha Sumner

Airship of Theseus: On the Final Seconds of Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth by Nathan Wainstein

Ending World, Ending Philosophy by Jeffrey R. Di Leo

Dying to End: Narrative Endings in Beckett and Heidegger by Jonathan Boulter

Closed: Ending Either Way by James Dutton

Interventions

From Nepantla Realism to Chatbot Dreams of Electric Sheep: Frederick Luis Aldama interviews Daniel Chacón

Michael Joyce reviews Polaroids of Turbulence by Henry Sussman

Andrew Cyril Macdonald reviews Voyage in Port by Vernon Frazer

Dolapo Demuren reviews Fugitive/Refuge by Philip Metres

Onur Ayaz reviews Here, There, and Nowhere by Valery Oisteanu

Miho Kinnas reviews Love as Invasive Species by Ellen Kombiyil

Laura Salvatore reviews Trellises and Thorns by Pam Laskin, and: Like Now by J-T Kelly, and: Comment Card by Jim Daniels

The Laureates

Challenging “the litany of less than”: A Conversation with Caridad Moro-Gronlier, Poet Laureate of Miami-Dade County by Renee H. Shea

Memoir

Hannah Thurman reviews Trying by Chloé Caldwell