In a teaser article from our latest print issue, “The Lyrical Literature of Distant Listening,” Emilie Morin moves between sound, lyric form, and modernist experimentation asks what it means to hear literature rather than simply read it.
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Now on Print Plus, check out Faye Hamilll's Editor's Note introducing the latest Print Issue of Modernism/modernity: modernismmodernity.org/current-prin...
New on Print Plus: Allan Hepburn reviews Rachel Bryan’s Twentieth-Century Literature and the Aftermath of War, examining how literary form registers the lingering afterlives of conflict.
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Now on Print Plus, check out Faye Hamill's Editor's Note introducing the latest Print Issue of Modernism/modernity: modernismmodernity.org/editors/edit...
In the latest post on the "Visualities" blog on Print Plus, Michael Allan revisits how Islam is represented in cinema and offers a fresh lens for thinking about mimesis, visuality, and religious embodiment on screen.
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Saba Pakdel’s essay, “Black Migrants and Climate Change Vulnerability Amid the Great Smog of London in Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners,” reads postwar London through race, migration, and environmental crisis.
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Earlier this month, Modernism/modernity was delighted to win the 2025 Council of Editors of Learned Journals Best Digital Feature award for "Hope Mirrlees's Paris: A Poem @ 100"
You can check out the award-winning feature on Print Plus here: modernismmodernity.org/forums/mirrl...
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2025 CELJ Award Winner Best Digital Feature Modernism/modernity Hope Mirrlees's Paris: A Poem @ 100 Contributors Nell Wasserstrom Rio Matchett Yasna Bozhkova Ruth Alison Clemens Davida Fernandez-Barkan Matthew Kilbane Melanie Micir Anna Preus Sofia Permiakova Juliette Taylor-Batty Cornelia Wilde Read free at M/m Print Plus: https://modernismmodernity.org/forums/mirrlees-paris Illustrated with the CELJ certificate, a photograph of Hope Mirrlees, and the cover art from an original edition of Paris.
Congratulations also to Modernism/modernity, who took home the CELJ Best Digital Feature award for "Hope Mirrlees's Paris: A Poem @ 100"
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Amit Baishya writes on "Northeast Indian Literature in Planetary Time: Creation Myths, Zones of Extraction and Anthropocene Heterotemporality in Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih’s Poetics."
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New on Print Plus: Stephanie J. Brown writes on the deployment of images that depict and enact surveillant mechanisms in her article, "Suffrage Journalism against State Brutality: Surveillance Art in Votes for Women and The Suffragette, 1910–1914": modernismmodernity.org/articles/bro...
For another teaser from our latest print issue, check out Edward Mitchell's review of Metrics of Modernity: Art and Development in Postwar Turkey by Sarah-Neel Smith, now on Print Plus: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
In her Afterword to our new special issue, "The Language Challenge: Modernisms in Multilingual South Asia,” Rebecca Walkowitz writes about accepting the challenge of language, and rising to it.
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We are thrilled to call your attention to our new special issue, titled “The Language Challenge: Modernisms in Multilingual South Asia,” guest-edited by the wonderful Preetha Mani and Jennifer Dubrow! Read Anjali Nerlekar’s note introducing the issue here: modernismmodernity.org/editors/spec...
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As a part of our "Visualities" blog series, Jane Frances Dunlop explores Gertrude Stein's visual thinking, the simultaneity of perception, and interdisciplinary approaches to seeing.
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In their post "“Read a Dirty Book”: James Joyce, Samuel Steward, and the Orientations of Literary Rebellion" in the "Orientations" blog series, Bracken et al trace a missed connection between James Joyce and Samuel Seward.
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New on Print Plus:
H. N. Lukes reviews Jordan Brower’s Classical Hollywood, American Modernism: A Literary History of the Studio System, tracing how literary modernism and Hollywood’s studio system shaped American cultural modernity.
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A preview from our latest print issue, Michael M. Weinstein's article on “Reading Against the Frame: Photomontage and Trans Aesthetics in the Russian Avant-Garde"
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New Issue Alert!
Preview the latest issue of Modernism/modernity (Vol. 32, No. 2) on Print Plus now.
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New on Print Plus:
Nicholas Sawicki’s “The Eye and the Hand: On Kafka’s Drawings” examines how Kafka’s sketching practices blur the line between vision and inscription, art and text.
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New at Print Plus: "Virginia Woolf in Circulation: The Hogarth Press Order Books, Modernist Bookselling, and Digital Practice" by Alice Staveley et al sheds light on the business of modernism and reads order books as digital portals for literary history
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Sookyoung Lee’s inaugural “Letter from the Field” launches a new series for the Modernism, Energy, and Environment forum, discussing histories and futures of climate catastrophe, fossil capital’s relentlessness, and academic labor.
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Friends, please take some time to read Sookyoung Lee's inaugural "Letter from the Field" in the Energy & Environment forum over at @mmodernity.bsky.social Print Plus. Soo asks us to "rethink professional life" as all of our infrastructural systems are either fraying or being weaponized against us:
We are very excited to announce that a new series on @moderniststudies.bsky.social's M/m print plus "Modernism, Energy, and Environment" blog--“Letters from the Field,” is now LIVE. It's kicked off by the exceptional words of Sookyoung Lee! Read and share! modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
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Read Martin Harries's review of Thierry de Duve’s Duchamp’s Telegram: From Beaux-Arts to Art-in-General, now on Print Plus: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
Now live on Print Plus: “Dreaming through Marg” by Rashmi Viswanathan
Read the article here to delve into a study the cultural encoding in early issues of Marg, the influential Indian arts and culture journal: modernismmodernity.org/articles/vis...
