BOOK NEWS: Totality in contemporary global realist fiction journalofmodernliterature.blogspot.com/2025/11/book... #books #AcademicSky #literarycriticism

FREE ARTICLE "The Rings of Sarajevo: W.G. Sebald and the Bosnian War" by Denis Topalović Read it for FREE on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

BOOK NEWS: The rise of ekphrastic fiction since the 2010s *Art in Contemporary Anglo-American Fiction: The Ekphrastic Novel* By Sofie Behluli journalofmodernliterature.blogspot.com/2025/11/book...

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Hong Zeng and Ping Zhang review and engage in dialogue with *Breaking down Boundaries and “Making it New”: Oriental Elements in Western Modernism* by Qian Zhaoming Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Laura de la Parra Fernández reviews Kelly M. Rich's *The Promise of Welfare in the Postwar British and Anglophone Novel: States of Repair* Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl... #AcademicSky

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Jack Dudley (@thecatinulysses.bsky.social) reviews Jesse Wolfe’s *Love, Friendship, and Narrative Form After Bloomsbury: The Progress of Intimacy in History* Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl... #AcademicSky

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Ryan Johnson argues that William Plomer’s *Sado* reconceptualizes the East-West divide in literature via Russian novels. Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl... #fiction #AcademicSky

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Duncan Hay explores the ways Iain Sinclair's *Downriver* rethinks and revises the modernist flâneur figure. Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl... #fiction #AcademicSky

SPECIAL FEATURE "W.G. Sebald and the Wars in Yugoslavia: A Closer Look at JML 48.4" by Denis Topalović His Journal of Modern Literature essay on Sebald is available FREE, linked in the post iupress.org/connect/blog... #literature #AcademicSky

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Aaron Shaheen uncovers Ernest Hemingway's use of cartographic concepts in his short story "Soldier's Home." Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl... #fiction #modernism

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Cilliers van den Berg examines how S.J. Naude's Afrikaans novel *The Third Reel* engages Walter Benjamin's angelus novus. Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl... #fiction #SouthAfrica

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Hannah Loeb shows that in Derek Walcott’s “The Schooner Flight,” recurrent images of translucence serve as the loci of trans-historical insights that connect present subjectivities with past traumas Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl... #poetry

CFP (please share!): Our digital literary heritage is rapidly being lost, from 1990s hypertext sites to 2010s digital humanities projects. _A Field Guide to Modernisms_ seeks to spread awareness, document at-risk projects, and brainstorm solutions. Abstracts by February 2: www.shawnaross.com/cfp/.

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Andrés Ibarra Cordero explores how Alan Hollinghurst's *The Swimming Pool Library* engages queer temporality, especially the concept of "backwardness" Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl... #LGBTQ #academicsky

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Laura L. Behling analyzes P.R. Stephensen's critiques of British censorship through his three lampoons of Radlyffe Hall's *The Well of Loneliness* Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl... #censorship #literaryhistory

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE James Dutton explores how Musil's approach to history in *The Man without Qualities* made the novel unfinishable, since meaning remains in the future Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

NEW ISSUE Journal of Modern Literature 48.4 (Summer 2025) on the theme "History and Geography" is now LIVE on Project MUSE (@projectmuse.bsky.social) at muse.jhu.edu/issue/55722

BOOK NEWS: Woolf's first fully realized literary experiment *The Life of Violet: Three Early Stories* by Virginia Woolf journalofmodernliterature.blogspot.com/2025/10/book... #BookSky #fiction

BOOK NEWS Updated edition of Forster's *A Room with a View* New release from @broadviewpress.bsky.social journalofmodernliterature.blogspot.com/2025/10/book... #BookSky #classics #criticaledition

BOOK NEWS Seeking true equality via literary moments of resistance *Democratic Anarchy: Aesthetics and Political Resistance in U.S. Literature* By @matthewscully.bsky.social / published by @fordhampress.bsky.social journalofmodernliterature.blogspot.com/2025/10/book... #BookSky #AcademicSky

BOOK NEWS Critical reflections on the work of Luis J. Rodríguez Recent release from @edinburghup.bsky.social journalofmodernliterature.blogspot.com/2025/09/book... #BookSky #AcademicSky #poetry #poets

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