The history of representation, the cultural-historical study of the representation, shaping and changing of reality, has proven to be a surprising and fruitful field. The authors in Fact & Fiction move along, on and especially across the dividing lines between history, literature, visual art, political philosophy and architecture. The journal is the crossroads of a lively exchange of insights from these separate disciplines. By incorporating theoretical views into concrete cultural-historical essays, the journal offers a view of recent developments in the humanities.