This issue of Mosaic explores new perspectives on the English and American novel, focusing specifically on the novel’s experimentalist goal to understand the nature of the world. Considered authors include Anthony Powell, D.H. Lawrence, Joseph Conrad, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Joseph Heller, Frederick Rolf, William Faulkner, C.P. Snow, Thomas Hardy, and Anthony Trollope. Genres and time periods this issue examined include American fiction, the nineteenth century, and contemporary fiction.