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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/
IN OUR LATEST ISSUE
James Mesiti reviews *Transdisciplinary Beckett: Visual Arts, Music, and the Creative Process* by Lucy Jeffery
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January 29, 2026 at 3:51 PM
IN OUR LATEST ISSUE
Jean-Michel Rabaté reviews three books that gloss Samuel Beckett's darkest novel, *How It Is*
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January 28, 2026 at 3:36 PM
IN OUR LATEST ISSUE
Ira Nadel argues that Philip Roth found in Céline a model for "lawless exuberance," writing candidly about taboo topics
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January 27, 2026 at 5:42 PM
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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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January 26, 2026 at 5:25 PM
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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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January 23, 2026 at 4:23 PM
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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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#poetry #epic #AcademicSky
January 22, 2026 at 4:14 PM
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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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#Inklings #poerty #AcademicSky
January 21, 2026 at 3:59 PM
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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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#Joyce #modernism #AcademicSky
January 20, 2026 at 4:36 PM
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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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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
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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
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
January 12, 2026 at 2:57 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
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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#AcademicSky
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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#AcademicSky
October 28, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Ryan Johnson argues that William Plomer’s *Sado* reconceptualizes the East-West divide in literature via Russian novels.
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#fiction #AcademicSky
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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#fiction #AcademicSky
October 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Aaron Shaheen uncovers Ernest Hemingway's use of cartographic concepts in his short story "Soldier's Home."
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#fiction #modernism
October 22, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Cilliers van den Berg examines how S.J. Naude's Afrikaans novel *The Third Reel* engages Walter Benjamin's angelus novus.
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#fiction #SouthAfrica
October 21, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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
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#poetry
October 20, 2025 at 2:12 PM
IN OUR LATEST ISSUE
Andrés Ibarra Cordero explores how Alan Hollinghurst's *The Swimming Pool Library* engages queer temporality, especially the concept of "backwardness"
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#LGBTQ #academicsky
October 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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*
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#censorship #literaryhistory
October 16, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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
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October 15, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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
October 14, 2025 at 1:30 PM