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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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+

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...