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Big, Ambitious Novels by Twenty-First-Century Women, Part I Kathe Callahan we are deeply implicated inIn a 2000 review of Zadie Smith's White Teeth, critic James Wood dismissed the genre of "big, ambitious novels" which he claimed were too dense with information to express any authentic feeling as "hysterical realism." The contributors to these special issues take Wood's derisive claims as a rallying cry to examine encyclopedic or maximalist novels by women published in the past two decades, including works by Emil Ferris, Valeria Luiselli, Ruth