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Not much unlike any other period, crises abound in the 21^st century and trigger literary output (Horton 2014). Two of them loom large, one in the political field, the other in the financial-economic one.

 9/11 fiction: The terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York on 11 September 2001 gave rise to several novels (Kovach 2016).Examples: The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid (2007), Falling Man by Don DeLillo (2007)

 Crunch Lit: This type of “recession writings” is based on the financial crisis of 2008, contains lots of unsympathetic characters, is set around banking institutions, and satirizes modern life, consumer culture and the credit boom.Examples: Capitalism by John Lanchester (2011), A Week in December by Sebastian Faulks (2009), The Fear Index by Robert Harris (2011)