Abstract: This paper surveys four salient and interlocking trends in contemporary literature—climate fiction (cli-fi), posthumanist and new materialist narratives, digital/digitally mediated literary forms and hybridity, and the rise of dystopian migration novels—and argues that together they mark a decisive shift in literary form and ethical imagination. Drawing on recent scholarship and representative cultural phenomena, I show how these trends respond to ecological crisis, technological entanglement, globalization, and the politics of mobility. Cli-fi reframes temporality and responsibility through speculative futures that model climate imaginaries and pedagogies. Posthumanist texts unsettle human exceptionalism by redistributing agency across nonhuman actors and technologies. Digital literature and formal hybridity reconfigure narrative voice, circulation, and genre boundaries. Finally, migration narratives—increasingly cast in dystopian and speculative modes—register contemporary anxieties about borders, belonging, and surveillance. The paper synthesizes recent critical work to argue that contemporary literature functions less as an autonomous aesthetic sphere than as a discursive and ethical practice that mediates our relation to planetary, technological, and social contingencies.