BOOK NEWS Analyzing contemporary Nahuatl-Spanish poetry *The Serpent's Plumes: Contemporary Nahua Flowered Words in Movement* from @sunypress.bsky.social journalofmodernliterature.blogspot.com/2025/09/book...

BOOK NEWS Engaging critically with Sandra Cisneros's oeuvre Recent release from @utexaspress.bsky.social journalofmodernliterature.blogspot.com/2025/09/book...

BOOK NEWS Disrupting racist security regimes *Refiguring Race and Risk: Counternarratives of Care in the US Security State* Recent release from @ohiostatepress.bsky.social journalofmodernliterature.blogspot.com/2025/09/book...

BOOK NEWS Examining domestic servants in contemporary South Asian fiction Recent release from ‪@oxfordacademic.bsky.social‬ journalofmodernliterature.blogspot.com/2025/09/book... #BookSky #postcolonial #SouthAsia #litcrit

BOOK NEWS A critique of "true feeling" in late-twentieth-century fiction *The Artifice of Affect* by Nicholas Manning Recent release from @edinburghup.bsky.social journalofmodernliterature.blogspot.com/2025/08/book...

NEW! On Beckett, On!, Journal of Modern Literature's first book, demonstrates how exciting and productive Samuel Beckett scholarship has become, encompassing philosophy, psychoanalysis, ethics, contemporary history, and literary theory. #BookSky #AcademicSky #Beckett iupress.org/978025307483...

BOOK NEWS How portrait photos serve as literary motifs in Proust, Kafka, and Woolf Recent release from @edinburghup.bsky.social‬ journalofmodernliterature.blogspot.com/2025/08/book...

BOOK NEWS Modern literature and the science of sleep *Sleep Works: Experiments in Science and Literature, 1899-1929* Recent release from @hopkinspress.bsky.social journalofmodernliterature.blogspot.com/2025/08/book...

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Derek Ryan reviews *Abstraction in Modernism and Modernity: Human and Inhuman* by Jeff Wallace Read it on Project MUSE (@projectmuse.bsky.social) at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Xiaoshan Hou and Fuying Shen discuss Joyce’s use of paralipsis in "Clay" and the protagonist Maria's performativity that make her resemble a puppet. Read it on Project MUSE (@projectmuse.bsky.social) at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Umar Shehzad demonstrates how Beckett’s work turns the face unrecognizable, evoking prosopagnosia or face-blindness Read it on Project MUSE @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Tiasa Bal and Gurumurthy Neelakantan explore ghosts and spectrality in Joseph Skibell's *A Blessing on the Moon* and how the Shoah's traumas mar even lunar imagery Read it on Project MUSE (@projectmuse.bsky.social) at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Mara Reisman shows that in *The Grotesque* Patrick McGrath employs gothic decay and transgression of boundaries between animal, human, and biological to critique class hierarchies Read it on Project MUSE (@projectmuse.bsky.social) at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Stanka Radović explores Ballard's postmodern mystery *Super-Cannes* in which trafficking north African refugees is merely part of the landscape, and the investigator is also a perpetrator. Read it on Project MUSE (@projectmuse.bsky.social) at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Trevor Westmoreland shows how in *Exit West*, Hamid's use of fantastical portals sifts the narrative from a dystopian trajectory to a utopian one. Read it on Project MUSE (@projectmuse.bsky.social) at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Isabelle Wentworth explores the fluid dynamics of queer desire in Ellen van Neerven's "Water" and Lía Chara’s *Agua* Read it on Project MUSE (@projectmuse.bsky.social) at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Emad Mirmotahari considers how Juan José Saer’s *El entenado/The Witness* subverts "scientific" discourses in its narrative of a European captive of a cannibalistic society in South America Read it on Project Muse ‪@projectmuse.bsky.social‬ at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

SPECIAL FEATURE Mosquito Narrators and the Subaltern Voice: A Closer Look at JML 48.3 by Romy Rajan His Journal of Modern Literature essay on Serpell's *The Old Drift* is available FREE, linked in the post iupress.org/connect/blog...

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Xiaofan Amy Li finds in Hon’s *Empty Faces* and Tse’s *Owlish* the emergence of a Hong Kong neo-Surrealism that critiques neo-liberalism, security, and surveillance Read it on Project Muse @projectmuse.bsky.social‬ at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Tracy A. Stephens (@cyclopsdoc.bsky.social) discusses how Stephen Graham Jones’s adaptation of the deer woman trope challenges the settler gaze and notions about indigenous authenticity Read it on Project Muse ‪@projectmuse.bsky.social‬ at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

NEW ISSUE! Journal of Modern Literature 48.3 (Spring 2025) on the theme "Human-Nonhuman Transgressions and the Global Uncanny" is now LIVE on ‪@projectmuse.bsky.social‬ at muse.jhu.edu/issue/55227 #Literature

Wanted: literary ecocriticism essays More information on our blog: journalofmodernliterature.blogspot.com/2025/07/seek... #AcademicSky #ecocriticism #literarystudies

BOOK NEWS Practical approaches to decolonial scholarship founded in humility *Quiet Methodologies: Humility in the Humanities* by Suzanne Bost Recent release from @uminnpress.bsky.social‬ journalofmodernliterature.blogspot.com/2025/07/book... #BookSky #literarystudies #humanities #AcademicSky

BOOK NEWS *Never on Time, Always in Time: Narrative Form and the Queer Sensorium* by Kate McCullough Recent release from ‪@ohiostatepress.bsky.social‬ journalofmodernliterature.blogspot.com/2025/06/book... #BookSky #PrideMonth

BOOK NEWS Celebrate Bloomsday with a new Cambridge edition of *Ulysses* with essays and notes journalofmodernliterature.blogspot.com/2025/06/book... #BookSky #Bloomsday #Joyce

BOOK NEWS Modernist depictions of "masculine pregnancy" *Masculine Pregnancies: Modernist Conceptions of Creativity and Legitimacy, 1918-1939* Now in paperback from @sunypress.bsky.social journalofmodernliterature.blogspot.com/2025/06/book... #BookSky #PrideMonth

BOOK NEWS: How Literary Suicides Expose Biopolitics *The Suicidal State: Race Suicide, Biopower, and the Sexuality of Population* by Madoka Kishi Recent release from ‪@oxfordacademic.bsky.social‬ journalofmodernliterature.blogspot.com/2025/05/book... #BookSky #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth

BOOK NEWS Exploring artistic resistance in writing from and about India *Modernism and the Idea of India: The Art of Passive Resistance* by Judith Brown Recent release from @cambridgeup.bsky.social journalofmodernliterature.blogspot.com/2025/05/book... #BookSky

BOOK NEWS: Tracing the love embedded in Black and Asian American literatures *Other Lovings: An AfroAsian American Theory of Life* Recent release from @ohiostatepress.bsky.social journalofmodernliterature.blogspot.com/2025/05/book... #BookSky #AAPIHeritageMonth

BOOK NEWS First major critical survey of Australian poetry *The Cambridge Companion to Australian Poetry* Edited by Ann Vickery Recent release from @cambridgeup.bsky.social journalofmodernliterature.blogspot.com/2025/05/book... #Booksky #poetry

READ FOR FREE! Jeffrey Careyva's essay, "'The Mind and the Poem Are All Apiece': William Carlos Williams and the Dysfluent Poetics of Aphasia," is available without a subscription at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl... #NationalPoetryMonth

ONLINE EXCLUSIVE Philip Tsang reviews *British Literature and the Life of Institutions: Speculative States* Read it for FREE at journalofmodernliterature.blogspot.com/2025/04/book...

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Ramón E. Soto-Crespo reviews Betty Joseph's *From Empire to Anthropocene* and John Thieme's *Anthropocene Realism: Fiction in the Age of Climate Change* Read it on Project MUSE (@projectmuse.bsky.social) at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Cole Adams (@cole-adams.bsky.social) reviews *The Academic Avant-Garde: Poetry and the American University* by Kimberly Quiogue Andrews Read it on Project MUSE (@projectmuse.bsky.social) at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Orchid Tierney (@orchidtierney.bsky.social) reviews *The Plastic Turn* by Ranjan Ghosh Read it on Project MUSE (@projectmuse.bsky.social) at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Chen Lin reviews *The Hyacinth Girl: T.S. Eliot's Hidden Muse* by Lyndall Gordon Read it on Project MUSE (@projectmuse.bsky.social) at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Emily James (@emilymjames.bsky.social) and Ellie Lange review *Modernism, Material Culture and the First World War* by Cedric Van Dijck Read it on Project MUSE (@projectmuse.bsky.social) at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

SPECIAL FEATURE "This Old Goose Still Honks: Dysfluency in William Carlos Williams's Late Poetry" The author's JML 48.2 essay on Williams is available FREE, linked in the post! iupress.org/connect/blog... #NationalPoetryMonth

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Ryan Kerr (@ryanrkerr.bsky.social) examines fictional responses to 1950s austerity Britain: ineffectual anarchism in Alan Sillitoe's novel, and conformist decorum in Samuel Selvon's. Read it on Project MUSE (@projectmuse.bsky.social) at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Bowen Wang explores E.E. Cummings's lively approach to still life in his paintings and poetry Read it on Project MUSE (@projectmuse.bsky.social) at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Enaiê Mairê Azambuja explores the influence of Zen and Taoism on Marianne Moore's poetry writing and later drastic revisions of her poems Read it on Project MUSE (@projectmuse.bsky.social) at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Frances Wear discusses how Eliot unifies realism and idealism in "Little Gidding" via the fire of desire and the fire of divine love Read it on Project Muse (@projectmuse.bsky.social) at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Sean Collins argues that Marianne Moore's collage technique in "An Octopus" prefigures contemporary ecocritical discourse by offering a "tentacular" approach to ecopoetics Read it on Project Muse (@projectmuse.bsky.social) at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Grzegorz Kosc explores how Robert Lowell's poetic style reflects his changing views about gold and other coinage metals, which for centuries have been metaphors for personal experience Read it on Project Muse (@projectmuse.bsky.social) at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Enrico Bruno (@enricobruno.bsky.social) examines how Ralph Ellison's 1940s short fiction engages the vision of professional sports labor as a means of racial equality Read it on Project Muse (@projectmuse.bsky.social) at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

NEW ISSUE! Journal of Modern Literature issue 48.2 (Winter 2025), on the theme "Matter, Meaning, Material" is now LIVE on Project MUSE @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/issue/54502

FREE Essay from Journal of Modern Literature Aakanksha J. Virkar explores Eliot's depiction of Beethoven in Coriolan I "Triumphal March" muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl... #NationalPoetryMonth #TSEliot

BOOK NEWS Reconsidering short works by the mother of the horror genre, Shirley Jackson recent release from @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social journalofmodernliterature.blogspot.com/2025/03/book... #Booksky #WomensHistoryMonth

BOOK NEWS Listening to Gertrude Stein's plays as radio theater *Radio Free Stein: Gertrude Stein's Parlor Plays* Recent release from @nupress.bsky.social journalofmodernliterature.blogspot.com/2025/03/book... #Booksky #WomensHistoryMonth

BOOK NEWS Exploring Sylvia Plath's daily life, 1955-63 Recent release from @upmississippi.bsky.social journalofmodernliterature.blogspot.com/2025/03/book... #Booksky #WomensHistoryMonth