The fourth issue of I.S. Med. Interdisciplinary Studies on the Mediterranean is specifically focused on literature and diligently guest edited by Martino Lovato and C. Ceyhun Arslan. This current issue opens with their introduction and a delightful interview with Angela Fabris and Steffen Schneider, editors, together with Albert Göschl, of the volume Sea of Literatures: Towards a Theory of Mediterranean Literature (De Gruyter, 2023). While we pursue ongoing explorations of the Mediterranean through the attentive written analyses of our authors, we continue to organize annual symposia, held in different pertinent sites. After a successful symposium in Palermo, Italy, we will be hosted by the University of Seville for our annual event in 2026. In the meantime, feel free to contact the authors directly: their emails are provided in the contributors' section of each issue.