The stacks

The stacks are The Book Hold’s ongoing, longer-term reading projects. Each stack consists of a set of posts arranged around a historical, thematic, or other organizing idea. The links below lead to overview posts that introduce each stack, lay out the core works, and gather related writing as it accumulates over time.

• Fictions of authority: The dictator novel and its legacy in Latin America and beyond
• Bloc experiments: Experimental literature out of Eastern Europe, from before, during, and after the Soviet experiment
• Salidas: Realism and its discontents in novels out of Spain, from 1945 to the present
• Contre-voyages: Interwar adventures in French travel literature
• The gray zone: Novels written before, during, and after the rise and fall of fascism in Italy