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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 2h

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Kuhelika Ghosh explores Jamaica Kincaid’s Caribbean aesthetic rooted in the invisible human and interspecies labors that go into the production of flowers Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl... #ecocriticism #environmentalhumanities

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Jie Chen and Quan Wang explore how in “The Effluent Engine” N.K. Jemisin channels a reimagined steampunk Tinkerer archetype and Vodou epistemology to create a decolonial utopian future Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl... #ecocriticism #steampunk

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Ramón E. Soto-Crespo introduces JML 49.4 in "Literature on a Hot Planet: An Introduction to Ecocriticism/Anti-Imperialism" Read it for FREE at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl... #ecocriticism #anti-imperialism #environmentalhumanities #openaccess

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

NEW ISSUE! Journal of Modern Literature 49.4 (Summer 2026), "Ecocriticism / Anti-Imperialism," edited by Ramón E. Soto-Crespo is now live on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/issue/57714 #ecocriticism #anti-imperialism #AcademicSky #literature

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Subscribe to Journal of Modern Literature! Individual rates per year (four issues) are: Electronic/$54.60; Print/$63.55; Print and Electronic/$69.90. Order at www.press.jhu.edu/journals/car... For subscribers outside the US, call our distribution partner at 410-516-6987 (M-F 8:30-4:30 Eastern)

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

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...

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

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

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

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

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

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

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

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

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

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

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

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

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

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

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

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

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

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

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

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

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

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

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

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

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

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

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

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

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

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

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

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+

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

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

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

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

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Daniel Swain demonstrates how Frank O’Hara’s poetics explore the erotics of class desire Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl... #NationalPoetryMonth #poetry #AcademicSky

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Chris Coffman argues that H.D.’s poem "The Master" inscribes non-binary subjectivities Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Julyan Oldham considers why Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway is considered virginal despite her marriage and daughter Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Jena DiMaggio argues that the ambivalence about abortion in Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants" reveals the limitations of political rhetorical frameworks Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Megan Girdwood demonstrates how *Le Spectre de la Rose* operates as a model for Woolf’s balletic imaginary and her evocation of pre-war social rituals in *Jacob’s Room*, *Mrs. Dalloway*, and *The Years* Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Meindert Peters examines how Arthur Pita’s ballet adaptation of Kafka’s *The Metamorphosis* highlights both corporeal creativity and disability in Gregor's transformation Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Ian Tan explores healing potentialities of narrative in Philip Roth's polio patients story, *Nemesis* Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Claire Marie Class explores how Harlem Renaissance author and medical doctor Rudolph Fisher creatively harnesses the X-ray in his detective fiction Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

NEW ISSUE! JML 49.2 (Winter 2026), edited by Ramón E. Soto-Crespo, on the theme “Bodies, Subjectivities, and States of Queer Abundance” is now live on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/issue/56630

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Bryan Counter reviews *Literary Theories of Uncertainty* edited by Mette Leonard Høeg Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Joseph Darlington reviews *Anthony Burgess and America* by Christopher W. Thurley Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Nicole Higgins reviews *Dissonant Voices: Race, Jazz, and Innovative Poetics in Midcentury America* by Joseph Pizza Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE James Mesiti reviews *Transdisciplinary Beckett: Visual Arts, Music, and the Creative Process* by Lucy Jeffery Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Jean-Michel Rabaté reviews three books that gloss Samuel Beckett's darkest novel, *How It Is* Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Ira Nadel argues that Philip Roth found in Céline a model for "lawless exuberance," writing candidly about taboo topics Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Kevin Rulo explores how Wyndham Lewis's satire develops an aesthetic vision of parasitic unoriginality that challenges modernist ideals of autonomy Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE 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" Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Jeremy Pomeroy explores contemporary epic poetry's ambivalence toward or rationalizations of violence that historically characterizes the epic genre Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl... #poetry #epic #AcademicSky

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Dennis Wilson Wise examines C.S. Lewis's rare engagement with modernist technique and ambiguity in “Poem for Psychoanalysts and/or Theologians” Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl... #Inklings #poerty #AcademicSky

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

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 Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl... #Joyce #modernism #AcademicSky

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

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 Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Laura Lorhan explores how in *Mr. Fox* Helen Oyeyemi transforms the fairy tale "Bluebeard" Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

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 Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

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

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

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...

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

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...

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