This volume in the Critical Insights series is edited by Taylor Hagood, author of Faulkner’s Imperialism: Space, Place, and the Materiality of Myth and the forthcoming volume Faulkner, Writer of Disability. The collection features an array of readings that range from philosophical approaches to the perspectives offered by the emerging and contested field of fat studies. The essays investigate such topics as the environment, war, and industrialism in The Sound and the Fury while offering fascinating explorations of time, the instability of meaning, and secrets of miscegenation. Among the contributors are such established and celebrated scholars as Cheryl Lester, Theresa Towner, and Joseph R. Urgo as well as an international cast of important emerging critics such as John B. Padgett, Christopher Rieger, Caroline S. Miles, Sarah Robertson, and Frédérique Spill.