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How does modernist elegy create spaces for collective grief, dissent, and remembrance? Featuring essays that engage poetry, memory, affect, and the politics of loss, explore our cluster on "Modernist Elegy and Grief's Counterpublics" here: modernismmodernity.org/forums/moderni…

We’re delighted to welcome Dr Mantra Mukim (University of Oxford) as incoming Book Reviews Editor from Sept 1, 2026. We thank Dr Stefanie Sobelle & Dr Martin Harries for their dedicated work as Book Reviews Editors over the past three years.

In her review essay, “Paper Processors and Poetry’s Data,” Emily Christina Murphy offers a compelling double review that rethinks how poetry circulates through systems of inscription, computation, and mediation. Read it now on Print: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/m…

New on Print Plus: Robert Spoo's article "The Dispossessing of Sylvia Beach: Property, Autonomy, Personhood" which revisits the life and legacy of Sylvia Beach to consider the entanglements that shape women’s lives and labor. Read the article here: modernismmodernity.org/articles/spoo-…

New on Print Plus: check out Anjali Nerlekar's Editor's Note introducing the latest Print Issue of Modernism/modernity: modernismmodernity.org/editors

In Vincent Hiscock’s new article on Print Plus, “Mystic Realism & Collage: Robert Duncan’s THE WAR (1968)”, explores how poetry, collage, and political imagination converge in Robert Duncan’s response to the Vietnam War. Read more: modernismmodernity.org/articles/hisco…

In the latest post on the "Orientations" blog on Print Plus, Laura Hartmann-Villalta writes on "Gertrude Stein in Circles: An Exhibition Review of Stein’s Life and Fandom at the George Peabody Library." Read it here: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/h…

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. Read it here: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/a…

Now on Print Plus, check out Faye Hamill's Editor's Note introducing the latest Print Issue of Modernism/modernity: modernismmodernity.org/editors/editor…

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. Read it here: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/a…

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. Read here on Print Plus: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/p…

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/mirrlee…

Modernism/modernity is seeking a Book Reviews Editor (3-year term, 2026–2029). Please see the image for further details. Deadline to apply: March 16, 2026 Please share widely.

@CallalooJournal Congratulations also to @MModernity, who took home the CELJ Best Digital Feature award for "Hope Mirrlees's Paris: A Poem @ 100" Read the feature for free at M/m Print Plus: modernismmodernity.org/forums/mirrlee… 2/2

New on our Field Reports blog series at Print Plus: Amit Baishya writes on "Northeast Indian Literature in Planetary Time: Creation Myths, Zones of Extraction and Anthropocene Heterotemporality in Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih’s Poetics." Read it here: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/d…

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/brown…

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/m…

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. Read it here: modernismmodernity.org/articles/walko…

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/specia…

New on Print Plus 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. Read the piece here: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/d…