With more than half the world's population living in cities, urban fiction has become a truly global field. Recent comprehensive studies of urban fiction showcase the worldwide reach of the genre and include Writing Beirut: Mappings of the City in the Modern Arabic Novel (2015) by Samira Aghacy, Indigenous Cities: Urban Indian Fiction and the Histories of Relocation (2017) by Laura M. Furlan, Postcolonial Indian City-Literature: Policy, Politics and Evolution (2022) by Dibyakusum Ray, and Sensing the Sinophone: Urban Memoryscapes in Contemporary Fiction (2022) by Astrid Møller-Olsen.