The Anagonist Matthew J Friedman The Phoenix Project wowed over

The Phoenix Project wowed over a half-million readers

and Don Policarpo

As nations race to hone contact-tracing efforts

The World Is Round is a lively novel

and consistently theorized

The Anagonist Matthew J Friedman The Phoenix Project wowed overThis issue of Novel proposes a new type of novelistic hero: the "anagonist." Unlike the protagonist, the anagonist does not act; or if she does, her action is inconsequential to the work. The concept itself, however, is problematic, for the figure of the anagonist is averse to typology, such that its decisive identification in any particular work is almost impossible. More than a contribution to narrative categories therefore, the appearance of the