Sandra Singer (PhD, Cambridge) is Associate Professor in the School of English and Theatre Studies, University of Guelph, Canada. Her previous publications include the co-edited collections Doris Lessing: Interrogating the Times and Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook After Fifty, as well as the edited J. J. Steinfeld: Essays on His Works.

Acknowledgments - Introduction - Homosocial Character Dynamics in Bernhard Schlink's The Weekend - Revisiting the Image of the Falling Man in Novels, Television and Film - Self-subtraction from the System: The Sleeper Cell in Claire Messud's The Emperor's Children - Limitations of the Hyper-rationalist in Ian McEwan's Saturday - Gambling and Postcolonial Games of Risk in Joseph O'Neill's Netherland - From Modernism to Postmodernism: The Trauma Meme Transformed in Colum McCann's Let the Great World Spin - Media Defining Terrorism in Friedrich Dürrenmatt's The Assignment, Amy Waldman's The Submission and Thomas Pynchon's Bleeding Edge - Index.