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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.

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

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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.

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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."

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The Lyrical Literature of Distant Listening | Modernism / Modernity Print+ Distant listening—a practice born with radio amateurism, known as DXing among American radio enthusiasts—was the term used to designate an essential dimension of radio during the interwar period: the capacity to listen to radio stations far away. What this involved was not just the fine-tuning of a wireless set, but educated guesses about foreign identification signals,

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...

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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...

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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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Modernism/modernity seeks a Book Reviews Editor (3-year term, 2026–2029).

The role involves commissioning and editing reviews for both the print journal and Print+.

Deadline to apply: March 16, 2026

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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.

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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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."

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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...

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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...

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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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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.

Read the Editor’s Note: modernismmodernity.org/editors/32-2...

Explore the full Table of Contents: modernismmodernity.org/current-prin...

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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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Introduction to “Letters from the Field” | Modernism / Modernity Print+ I have been tasked with introducing “Letters from the Field”, a new series of blog correspondences on doing modernist studies while living through climate change and calamities. “Letters from the Field” grows out of conversations that have taken place at online and in-person events organized by the MSA’s Modernism and the Environment special interest group (SIG) over the past

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:

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