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Aaron Stone reviews *The Cambridge History of Queer American Literature* edited by Benjamin Kahan
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Grant Matthew Jenkins reviews *Poetics of Cognition: Thinking through Experimental Poems* by Jessica Lewis Luck
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Julia C. Obert examines how Seán Hewitt’s poetry centers queer joy
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Daniel Swain demonstrates how Frank O’Hara’s poetics explore the erotics of class desire
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Chris Coffman argues that H.D.’s poem "The Master" inscribes non-binary subjectivities
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Julyan Oldham considers why Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway is considered virginal despite her marriage and daughter
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Jena DiMaggio argues that the ambivalence about abortion in Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants" reveals the limitations of political rhetorical frameworks
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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*
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Meindert Peters examines how Arthur Pita’s ballet adaptation of Kafka’s *The Metamorphosis* highlights both corporeal creativity and disability in Gregor's transformation
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Ian Tan explores healing potentialities of narrative in Philip Roth's polio patients story, *Nemesis*
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Claire Marie Class explores how Harlem Renaissance author and medical doctor Rudolph Fisher creatively harnesses the X-ray in his detective fiction
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In a post for the Indiana University Press blog, author Nir Evron discusses how regionalist writers depict animals as individualized beings with distinctive experiences and inner lives that demand recognition and interpretation. iupress.org/connect/blog...
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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
BOOK NEWS: Examining maternal love and power in American fiction
*Mothers, Mobility, Narrative: Maternality in US Literature*
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Expanding the metamodernist lens via feminist narrative theories
*Contemporary Feminist Fiction and a Case for Expanding Rhetorical Narratology*
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*The Uncollected Letters of Virginia Woolf*
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How Adrienne Rich's political interests affect her late poetry
*Adrienne Rich’s Later Poetry: Raya Dunayevskaya and Marxist-Humanism* by Alec Marsh
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Muriel Spark, the literary shapeshifter
*Like a Cat Loves a Bird: The Nine Lives of Muriel Spark* by James Bailey
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Literary perspectives on labor and gender
Feminized Work and the Labor of Literature: New Literary Perspectives on the Times, Spaces and Forms of Women’s Work
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*Regenerating the Feminine: Psyche, Culture, and Nature* by April C. Heaslip
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Exploring the influences on Claude McKay's writing
*Real and Imagined Worlds: Claude McKay’s Poetry and Prose*
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The evolution of Black speculative fiction and philosophy
*Afrofuturism and World Order* by Reynaldo Anderson
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The entwined relationship of movement and writing for Black women authors
*The Souths in Her* by Nicole M. Morris Johnson
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The role of African and Caribbean newspapers in shaping Black political thought
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Black women writers rewriting humanism during segregation
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Bryan Counter reviews *Literary Theories of Uncertainty* edited by Mette Leonard Høeg
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Joseph Darlington reviews *Anthony Burgess and America* by Christopher W. Thurley
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Nicole Higgins reviews *Dissonant Voices: Race, Jazz, and Innovative Poetics in Midcentury America* by Joseph Pizza
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James Mesiti reviews *Transdisciplinary Beckett: Visual Arts, Music, and the Creative Process* by Lucy Jeffery
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