VOLUME 16, NUMBER 1
REPRESENTATIONS OF CRIME IN LITERATURE AND THE ARTS
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First published: 2026-10-15
Articles
Victimology in the Bondy Forest: the representation of the female victim in Justine, or Good Conduct Well Chastised
Raísa Nogueira Medeiros 
pages 5-23
Cite article: Nogueira Medeiros, R. Victimology in the Bondy Forest: the representation of the female victim in Justine, or Good Conduct Well Chastised. University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series 16(1), 2026: 5‒23. https://doi.org/10.31178/UBR.16.1.1
From roots to routes: violence, vulnerability, versatility and vitality in Elif Shafak’s recent fiction
Ileana Botescu-Sireteanu pages 24-40
Cite article: Botescu-Sireteanu, I. From roots to routes: violence, vulnerability, versatility and vitality in Elif Shafak’s recent fiction. University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series 16(1), 2026: 24‒40. https://doi.org/10.31178/UBR.16.1.2
Disposable children in Robert Walser, Kazuo Ishiguro and the TV miniseries Sharp Objects
Elizabeth Stewart pages 41-59
Cite article: Stewart, E. Disposable children in Robert Walser, Kazuo Ishiguro and the TV miniseries Sharp Objects. University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series 16(1), 2026: 41‒59. https://doi.org/10.31178/UBR.16.1.3
“Murder cannot be hid long”: blood, law, and justice in William Shakespeare’s Venice
Shaul Bassi pages
Cite article: Bassi, S. “Murder cannot be hid long”: blood, law, and justice in William Shakespeare’s Venice. University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series 16(1), 2026: . https://doi.org/10.31178/UBR.16.1.3
Guilt without crime: anomalies of fault in interwar Central European prose
Pavol Száz pages
Cite article: Száz, P. Guilt without crime: anomalies of fault in interwar Central European prose. University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series 16(1), 2026: https://doi.org/10.31178/UBR.16.1.3
Crime, ethnic identity, and the construction of criminality in Bernard Malamud’s The Fixer
Shpetim Madani pages
Cite article: Madani, S. Crime, ethnic identity, and the construction of criminality in Bernard Malamud’s The Fixer. University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series 16(1), 2026: . https://doi.org/10.31178/UBR.16.1.4
Whose archive is it? Confession, class, and the collapse of narrative control in Bella Mackie’s How to Kill Your Family
Jintu Alias 
and G.V. Deepthi Sree pages
Cite article: Alias, J. and Deepthi Sree, G.V. Whose archive is it? Confession, class, and the collapse of narrative control in Bella Mackie’s How to Kill Your Family. University of
Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series 16(1), 2026:
https://doi.org/10.31178/UBR.16.1.3
The topography of fear: geographical space as an element of tension in John Buchan’s detective novel The Thirty-Nine Steps
Hanna Tabakova , Viktoria Zarva , Ellina Tsykhovska pages
Cite article: Tabakova, H., Zarva, V. and Tsykhovska, E. The topography of fear: geographical space as an element of tension in John Buchan’s detective novel The Thirty-Nine Steps. University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series 16(1), 2026: https://doi.org/10.31178/UBR.16.1.3
The crime of protecting paradise: violent justice and moral panic in Toni Morrison’s Paradise
Assia Guidoum pages
Cite article: Guidoum, A. The crime of protecting paradise: violent justice and moral panic in Toni Morrison’s Paradise. University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series 16(1), 2026: . https://doi.org/10.31178/UBR.16.1.4
Back to the Greeks for a murder story: Colm Toíbín’s House of Names
Dana Badulescu pages
Cite article: Badulescu, D. Back to the Greeks for a murder story: Colm Toíbín’s House of Names. University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series 16(1), 2026: https://doi.org/10.31178/UBR.16.1.3
Reading the crime: riddles, incest, and dangerous interpretation in “Pericles” and the Historia Apollonii regis Tyri
Vichi-Eugenia Ciocani pages
Cite article: Ciocani, V.E. Reading the crime: riddles, incest, and dangerous interpretation in “Pericles” and the Historia Apollonii regis Tyri. University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series 16(1), 2026: https://doi.org/10.31178/UBR.16.1.3
A disturbed eyewitness: hazy reality and sceptic interlocutors
Aba-Carina Parlog pages
Cite article: Parlog, A.C. A disturbed eyewitness: hazy reality and sceptic interlocutors. University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series 16(1), 2026: https://doi.org/10.31178/UBR.16.1.3
Book Review
Book Review: The Final Six (2026) by Akinari Asakura
Zenith Roy pages
Cite article: Roy, Z. Book Review: The Final Six (2026) by Akinari Asakura. University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series 16(1), 2026: . https://doi.org/10.31178/UBR.16.1.9
Book Review: Symbiotic Posthumanist Ecologies in Western Literature, Philosophy and Art (2023) by Peggy Karpouzou and Nikoleta Zampaki (eds.)
Joseph Reylan Viray pages 101-104
Cite article: Viray, J.R. Book Review: Symbiotic Posthumanist Ecologies in Western Literature, Philosophy and Art (2023) by Peggy Karpouzou and Nikoleta Zampaki (eds.). University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series 16(1), 2026: 101-104. https://doi.org/10.31178/UBR.16.1.9