Françoise Lavocat, former member of the ICLA theory committee, has co-edited, with Alison James and Akihiro Kubo, The Routledge Handbook of Fiction and Belief. The book offers a reevaluation of the relationship between fiction and belief, surveying key debates in narratology, cultural studies, religious studies, and political science. The handbook draws on global research to investigate the historically variable understandings of fictionality, and allows readers to grasp the role of fictions in our understanding of the world.