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"Late Modernity" as a book category describes work—both fiction and nonfiction—that grapples with the social, political, and cultural conditions of the late 20th century to the present: globalization, rapid technological change, intensified individualization, neoliberal economics, climate crisis, mass migration, and pervasive uncertainty. These books probe how modern institutions and narratives have been transformed or destabilized, often emphasizing reflexivity, fragmentation, hybridity of genres (autofiction, speculative near‑future, reportage), and a focus on networks, surveillance, risk, and identity. Stylistically they tend toward ambivalence, irony, and layered or non‑linear structures that mirror social complexity, and thematically they examine memory, displacement, labor, ecological precarity, and the contradictions of progress. As a category, Late Modernity collects works that are critical of modernist teleologies while still confronting modern life’s technologies, markets, and infrastructures head‑on—seeking to interpret and narrate a world that feels both hyperconnected and disjointed.

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