N.B. This review has been accepted for publication in Urban Studies, and will appear in 2018. Narrating the Global Financial Crisis: Urban Imaginaries and the Politics of Myth Miriam Meissner 2017 Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan Palgrave Studies in Globalization, Culture and Society. 264 pages, 29 colour illustrations £89.99 hardback ISBN: 978-3-319-45410-8 hardback Around 2008 (the chronology remains contentious), a series of credit defaults and stock market drops ramified through interconnected financial markets, with consequences that still shape the contemporary socio-political landscape a decade later. In this remarkable new book, cultural and media studies scholar Miriam Meissner underlines how public, political and professional understandings of—and responses to—this crisis have been mediated through pervasive cultural narratives and tropes. Narrating the Global Financial Crisis provides a searching, theoretically sophisticated critical account of different discursive constructions of the global financial crisis (which she abbreviates to the “GFC”) in media and popular culture. It undertakes close critical analyses of popular narrative films like Oliver Stone’s Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010) or David Cronenberg’s adaptation (2012) of Don DeLillio’s novel Cosmopolis (2003); television documentaries like Marije Meerman’s Money and Speed: Inside the Black Box (2011); novels like John Lancaster’s Capital (2012) and a wide range of photojournalism. In doing so, Meissner draws eclectically on theoretical work, ranging from Mikhail Bakhtin’s concept of the chronotrope, through Anthony Vidler’s architectural uncanny to Jacques Rancière on the politics of dissensus. 1