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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
How Adrienne Rich's political interests affect her late poetry
*Adrienne Rich’s Later Poetry: Raya Dunayevskaya and Marxist-Humanism* by Alec Marsh
Recent release from @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social
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Muriel Spark, the literary shapeshifter
*Like a Cat Loves a Bird: The Nine Lives of Muriel Spark* by James Bailey
Coming June 2026 from @princetonupress.bsky.social
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BOOK NEWS
Literary perspectives on labor and gender
Feminized Work and the Labor of Literature: New Literary Perspectives on the Times, Spaces and Forms of Women’s Work
Recent release from @edinburghup.bsky.social
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BOOK NEWS: The Resurgence of the Archetypal Feminine
*Regenerating the Feminine: Psyche, Culture, and Nature* by April C. Heaslip
Recent release from @upmississippi.bsky.social
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BOOK NEWS
Exploring the influences on Claude McKay's writing
*Real and Imagined Worlds: Claude McKay’s Poetry and Prose*
Recent release from @upmississippi.bsky.social
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The evolution of Black speculative fiction and philosophy
*Afrofuturism and World Order* by Reynaldo Anderson
Recent release from @ohiostatepress.bsky.social
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The entwined relationship of movement and writing for Black women authors
*The Souths in Her* by Nicole M. Morris Johnson
Recent release from @columbiaup.bsky.social
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The role of African and Caribbean newspapers in shaping Black political thought
Recent release from @harvardpress.bsky.social
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Black women writers rewriting humanism during segregation
Recent release from @ohiostatepress.bsky.social
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IN OUR LATEST ISSUE
Bryan Counter reviews *Literary Theories of Uncertainty* edited by Mette Leonard Høeg
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Joseph Darlington reviews *Anthony Burgess and America* by Christopher W. Thurley
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Nicole Higgins reviews *Dissonant Voices: Race, Jazz, and Innovative Poetics in Midcentury America* by Joseph Pizza
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James Mesiti reviews *Transdisciplinary Beckett: Visual Arts, Music, and the Creative Process* by Lucy Jeffery
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Jean-Michel Rabaté reviews three books that gloss Samuel Beckett's darkest novel, *How It Is*
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Ira Nadel argues that Philip Roth found in Céline a model for "lawless exuberance," writing candidly about taboo topics
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Kevin Rulo explores how Wyndham Lewis's satire develops an aesthetic vision of parasitic unoriginality that challenges modernist ideals of autonomy
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Jihuan Yu analyzes how the quest for realness in Tom McCarthy's *Remainder* reflects the author's engagement with unreality in the era of "post-isms"
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Jeremy Pomeroy explores contemporary epic poetry's ambivalence toward or rationalizations of violence that historically characterizes the epic genre
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Dennis Wilson Wise examines C.S. Lewis's rare engagement with modernist technique and ambiguity in “Poem for Psychoanalysts and/or Theologians”
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Roy Benjamin examines James Joyce's lifelong engagement with improbability--from horserace betting and insurance to coincidence and chance more generally
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BOOK NEWS
Fantasy authors of color create alternate visions of morality
*Dispelling Fantasies* by Joy Sanchez-Taylor
Recent release from @ohiostatepress.bsky.social
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Dan Dougherty analyzes how, in *The Famished Road*, Ben Okri represents myriad voices and stories through the single homophonic voice of the abiku spirit-child narrator Azaro
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Laura Lorhan explores how in *Mr. Fox* Helen Oyeyemi transforms the fairy tale "Bluebeard"
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SPECIAL FEATURE
In "The Garden and the Machine: A Closer Look at JML 49.1" Robert Fillman considers William Carlos Williams's unique take on the pastoral. His JML essay is available FREE, linked in the post.
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IN OUR LATEST ISSUE
Preston Stone explores how the characters in Roxane Gay’s “Of Ghosts and Shadows” use a bedroom to stage a uniquely queer Haitian protest
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NEW ISSUE
Journal of Modern Literature 49.1 (Fall 2025) on the theme "Running Counter" is now LIVE on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/issue/56220
BOOK NEWS
Transportation technology in Henry James's fiction
Recent release from @universitypress.cambridge.org
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Exploring the rhetoric of ecofascism as a political genre
Recent release from @uminnpress.bsky.social
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Contemporary absurdist poetry, race, and gender
*Whiteness, Feminism and the Absurd in Contemporary British and US Poetry* by Jenna Clake
Recent release from @edinburghup.bsky.social
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