BOOK NEWS Examining anachronism in contemporary comics *The New Old Style: Anachronism in Contemporary Comics* By Matthew Levay #comics #AcademicSky journalofmodernliterature.blogspot.com/2026/08/book...
Journal of Modern Literature
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Scholarly journal of world literature literary criticism, 1900-present. Published quarterly by Indiana University Press, with digital editions on Project Muse. https://iupress.org/journals/jml/
BOOK NEWS An expansive and multifaceted account of the Bloomsbury Group *A History of the Bloomsbury Group* edited by Derek Ryan #literaryhistory #modernism #AcademicSky journalofmodernliterature.blogspot.com/2026/07/book...
BOOK NEWS: An expansive and multifaceted account of the Bloomsbury Group
A History of the Bloomsbury Group Edited by Derek Ryan Cambridge UP, 2025 ISBN: 9781009423663 https://www.cambridge.org/us/universitypress/...
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BOOK NEWS Examining transhistorial re-imaginings of the early American past in literary and creative media EBOOK ON SALE for just $9.99 from @edinburghup.bsky.social journalofmodernliterature.blogspot.com/2026/07/book...
BOOK NEWS: Examining transhistorial re-imaginings of the early American past in literary and creative media
Early America and the Modern Imagination: Rewriting the Past in the Present Edited by Patrick M. Erben and Rebecca L. Harrison Edinburgh UP...
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IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Matthew Holman reviews *Frank O’Hara’s New York School and Mid-Century Mannerism: Perfectly Disgraceful* by Sam Ladkin Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl... #FrankOHara #Mannerism #poetry #AcademicSky
IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Arka Chattopadhyay reviews *The Nabokov Effect: Reading in the Endgame* by Sigi Jöttkandt Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl... #Nabokov #filmicfiction #books #AcademicSky
IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Ira Nadel reviews *Ellmann’s Joyce, The Biography of a Masterpiece and its Maker* by Zachary Leader Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl... #JamesJoyce #biography #AcademicSky
IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Phillip Masterman Broadbent explores how Yoko Tawada's protagonist uses the films of Catherine Deneuve to create a subjectivity that subverts the European Orientalist gaze Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl... #fiction #Asianlit #AcademicSky
IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Carra Glatt examines the ways Donna Tartt's *The Goldfinch* plays with the conventions of Victorian fiction Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl... #contemporaryliterature #fiction #AcademicSky
IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Thomas Gould examines how Claudia Rankine and Rachel Cusk, through ordinary conversations, reveal the mechanisms by which whiteness is constructed Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl... #literature #racialpolitics #AcademicSky
BOOK NEWS Examining department stores in French and Egyptian literature Now in paperback from @sunypress.bsky.social #AcademicSky #literarystudies #books journalofmodernliterature.blogspot.com/2026/07/book...
BOOK NEWS: Examining department stores in French and Egyptian literature
Emporialism: Department Store Fictions and the Politics of the Mediterranean By Amr Kamal SUNY Press, 2025 ISBN: 9781438499468 https://sunyp...
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IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Andrew Koenig explores how *Elizabeth Costello* evinces Coetzee's refusal to “write back” and lost faith in postcolonial rewriting Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl... #literature #postcoloniallit #Coetzee
IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Joseph LaBine traces the echoes of Joyce and Lawrence in “Gabriel the chauffeur” of Sebald’s “Ambros Adelwarth” Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl... #literature #JamesJoyce #DHLawrence #Sebald
IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Nathan Wallace unpacks Stephen Dedalus’s “Parable of the Plums” in the “Aeolus” episode of *Ulysses*, tracing the effects of allusions to Dante's Paradiso 31. Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl... #literature #JamesJoyce #AcademicSky
IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Florian Gargallio shows how William Carlos Williams critiques national myths via Daniel Boone as a symbol of the inherent violence of frontier exploration Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl... #literature #poetry #history #AcademicSky
IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Yuli Pan demonstrates how Woolf’s intermedial approach to Greek ritual in *Between the Acts* anticipates the postdramatic Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl... #literature #Woolf #theaterfiction #AcademicSky
IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Carolina Iribarren analyzes the many communication breakdowns that appear throughout Woolf's fiction, which exemplify the modernist pull between social critique and utopian vision Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl... #literature #Woolf #AcademicSky
IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Jonathan Foster explores how Virginia Woolf decenters and undermines state power in *Mrs. Dalloway* Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl... #literature #Woolf #AcademicSky
IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Jean-Michel Rabaté explains the history of "long modernism," the organizing theme of issue 49.3. Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl... #literature #modernism #AcademicSky
NEW ISSUE! Journal of Modern Literature 49.3 (Spring 2026), on the theme "Long Modernisms," edited by Jean-Michel Rabaté, is now LIVE on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/issue/57113 #AcademicSky #literarystudies #modernism
BOOK NEWS Centennial edition of Robinson Jeffers poems in wide format #poetry #1920s #modernism journalofmodernliterature.blogspot.com/2026/06/book...
BOOK NEWS: Centennial edition of Robinson Jeffers poems in wide format
Roan Stallion, Tamar and Other Poems, Centennial Edition By Robinson Jeffers Foreword by Elliot Ruchowitz-Roberts, Afterword by Tim Hunt To...
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BOOK NEWS Contemporary Mexican literature's representations of sapphic desire *Lenchitudes* by Alejandra Márquez Paperback coming soon from @sunypress.bsky.social #PrideMonth #Latinx #LiteraryStudies journalofmodernliterature.blogspot.com/2026/06/book...
BOOK NEWS: Contemporary Mexican literature's representations of sapphic desire
Lenchitudes: Sapphic Representation in Contemporary Mexican Narrative By Alejandra Márquez SUNY Press, 2026 ISBN: 9798855805154 https://suny...
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BOOK NEWS Reading Irish women's writing through a queer, postcolonial lens Recent release from @edinburghup.bsky.social #PrideMonth #IrishStudies #AcademicSky journalofmodernliterature.blogspot.com/2026/06/book...
BOOK NEWS: Reading Irish women's writing through a queer, postcolonial lens
Queering Twentieth-Century Irish Women’s Writing: Uneasy Moderns By Naoise Murphy Edinburgh UP, 2025 ISBN: 9781399547468 https://edinburghun...
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BOOK NEWS: Rediscovering misplaced queer history in Irish literature and film *Queer Possessions* by Patrick R. Mullen Recent release from @syracuseup.bsky.social #IrishStudies #PrideMonth #AcademicSky journalofmodernliterature.blogspot.com/2026/06/book...
BOOK NEWS: Rediscovering misplaced queer history in Irish literature and film
Queer Possessions: Creative Criticism and Modern Irish Literature By Patrick R. Mullen Syracuse UP, 2026. ISBN: 9780815612131 https://press....
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BOOK NEWS: Examining ecological care in postcolonial poetry from the 1970s to present *Postcolonial Poetry and the Environment: Place, Precarity and Justice* Recent release from @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social #poetry #ecocriticism #AcademicSky journalofmodernliterature.blogspot.com/2026/05/book...
BOOK NEWS: Examining ecological care in postcolonial poetry from the 1970s to present
Postcolonial Poetry and the Environment: Place, Precarity and Justice By Pramod K. Nayar Bloomsbury, 2025 ISBN: 9781350499089 https://www.bl...
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BOOK NEWS Tracing the figure of the Asian girl in midcentury and postwar American fiction Recent release from @uminnpress.bsky.social #AAPIheritagemonth #academicsky #books #literature journalofmodernliterature.blogspot.com/2026/05/book...
BOOK NEWS: Tracing the figure of the Asian girl in midcentury and postwar American fiction
Asian Girlhood in the Shadows of US Empire By Sharon N. Tran University of Minnesota Press, 2026 ISBN 978-1-5179-1986-3 https://www.upress....
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BOOK NEWS Examining modern Catholic authors' approach to suicide *Suicide in Modern Catholic Literature* by Martin Lockerd journalofmodernliterature.blogspot.com/2026/05/book... #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth #modernism #books
BOOK NEWS: Examining modern Catholic authors' approach to suicide
Suicide in Modern Catholic Literature By Martin Lockerd Cascade Books, 2025 ISBN: 9781666786019 https://wipfandstock.com/9781666786019/suici...
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BOOK NEWS: Contemporary ecopoetry connecting nature's creation processes and composition *Experimental American Poetry and the New Organic Form* Recent release from @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social journalofmodernliterature.blogspot.com/2026/05/book...
BOOK NEWS: Contemporary ecopoetry connecting nature's creation processes and composition
Experimental American Poetry and the New Organic Form By João Paulo Guimaraes Bloomsbury Academic, 2025 ISBN: 9781350414891 https://www.bloo...
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IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Aaron Stone reviews *The Cambridge History of Queer American Literature* edited by Benjamin Kahan Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl... #AcademicSky #literaryhistory #LGBTQIA+
IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Grant Matthew Jenkins reviews *Poetics of Cognition: Thinking through Experimental Poems* by Jessica Lewis Luck Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl... #NationalPoetryMonth #poetry #poetics
IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Julia C. Obert examines how Seán Hewitt’s poetry centers queer joy Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl... #NationalPoetryMonth #Irishliterature #LGBT
