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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/
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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.
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IN OUR LATEST ISSUE
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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January 20, 2026 at 4:36 PM
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Fantasy authors of color create alternate visions of morality
*Dispelling Fantasies* by Joy Sanchez-Taylor
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BOOK NEWS: Fantasy authors of color create alternate visions of morality
Dispelling Fantasies: Authors of Color Reimagine a Genre By Joy Sanchez-Taylor Ohio State UP, 2025 ISBN: 978-0-8142-5949-8 https://ohiostate...
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January 19, 2026 at 4:51 PM
IN OUR LATEST ISSUE
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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January 16, 2026 at 2:51 PM
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Laura Lorhan explores how in *Mr. Fox* Helen Oyeyemi transforms the fairy tale "Bluebeard"
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January 15, 2026 at 4:04 PM
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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The Garden and the Machine: A Closer Look at JML 49.1 - Indiana University Press
By Robert Fillman, author of “‘ certain amusing comfort that makes you happy’: William Carlos Williams’s Ambivalent Pastoral Aesthetic,” Journal of Modern
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January 14, 2026 at 3:25 PM
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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January 13, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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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
January 12, 2026 at 2:57 PM
BOOK NEWS
Contemporary absurdist poetry, race, and gender
*Whiteness, Feminism and the Absurd in Contemporary British and US Poetry* by Jenna Clake
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BOOK NEWS: Contemporary absurdist poetry, race, and gender
Whiteness, Feminism and the Absurd in Contemporary British and US Poetry By Jenna Clake Edinburgh UP, 2025 ISBN: 9781474494342 https://edinb...
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December 11, 2025 at 6:41 PM
BOOK NEWS: Beckett's Ecological Thinking
*Samuel Beckett and Ecology*
Edited by Trish McTighe, and Céline Thobois-Gupta, and Nicholas E. Johnson
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BOOK NEWS: Beckett's ecological thinking
Samuel Beckett and Ecology Edited by Trish McTighe, Céline Thobois-Gupta, and  Nicholas E. Johnson Methuen Drama, 2025 ISBN: 9781350366022 h...
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November 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
BOOK NEWS: Spatial literary studies, foundations to new approaches
*Space and Literary Studies* edited by Elizabeth F. Evans
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BOOK NEWS: Spatial literary studies, foundations to new approaches
Space and Literary Studies Edited by Elizabeth F. Evans Cambridge UP, 2025 ISBN: 9781009424240 https://www.cambridge.org/us/universitypress/...
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November 25, 2025 at 6:21 PM
FREE ARTICLE
"The Rings of Sarajevo: W.G. Sebald and the Bosnian War" by Denis Topalović
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November 6, 2025 at 5:17 PM
BOOK NEWS: The rise of ekphrastic fiction since the 2010s
*Art in Contemporary Anglo-American Fiction: The Ekphrastic Novel* By Sofie Behluli
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BOOK NEWS: The rise of ekphrastic fiction since the 2010s
Art in Contemporary Anglo-American Fiction: The Ekphrastic Novel By Sofie Behluli Oxford UP, 2025 ISBN: 9780198954484 https://global.oup.com...
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November 4, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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
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October 30, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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*
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October 29, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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*
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October 28, 2025 at 4:40 PM
IN OUR LATEST ISSUE
Ryan Johnson argues that William Plomer’s *Sado* reconceptualizes the East-West divide in literature via Russian novels.
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October 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
IN OUR LATEST ISSUE
Duncan Hay explores the ways Iain Sinclair's *Downriver* rethinks and revises the modernist flâneur figure.
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October 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
SPECIAL FEATURE
"W.G. Sebald and the Wars in Yugoslavia: A Closer Look at JML 48.4" by Denis Topalović
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W.G. Sebald and the Wars in Yugoslavia: A Closer Look at JML 48.4 - Indiana University Press
By Denis Topalović, author of “The Rings of Sarajevo: W.G. Sebald and the Bosnian War,” Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 48, no. 4, Summer 2025,
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October 23, 2025 at 1:51 PM