A broad range of texts approaching key questions such as privacy, secularism, identity, and political engagement when it comes to the mobilization of theory as a tool for practicing criticality. The editors also ask if literature has past the point of useful engagement with theory (exploring the call for a ‘return to literary texts’). See Gayatri Spivak From Haverstock Hill Flat to U.S. Classroom, What’s Left of Theory? and William E. Connolly, Refashioning the Secular.