Volume 33, Issue 2, April 2026

May 27, 2026

Book cover with woman
Cover of True Detective Mysteries 13, no. 4 (July 1930). Courtesy of Arizona State University Special Collections.

Conservatism as Modernism: The Aesthetics of Tanizaki Jun’ichirō’s In Praise of Shadows in Global Context
Brian Hurley

More Than Just Noise: The Disciplining and Empowering Effects of Noise in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway and Millen Brand’s The Outward Room
Angela Frattarola

New American Review, Mediating Modernism, and the “Big Little Magazine”
James Baxter

Literature, Mass Culture, and Magazines: Vera Caspary and the Re-Mapping of the Mid-Twentieth-Century US Literary Field
Erin A. Smith

Market Texture: The Art of Genre Fiction
Chris Gortmaker

Deathlike Life and Impossible Futures in Elizabeth Bowen’s The Last September
Alexandra Bennett

The Science of Skullduggery: Mindreading, the Narrative Ethics of Opacity, and the Faulknerian Idiot in The Hamlet
Jesse Miller

Music Drama Mediated: Thomas Mann on the Literary Wagner
Adi Nester

Book Reviews

Daniel Wright
The Grounds of the Novel
Paul K. Saint-Amour

Richard Barlow and Paul Fagan, eds.
Finnegans Wake: Human and Nonhuman Histories
Enda Duffy

Kimberly Quiogue Andrews
The Academic Avant-Garde: Poetry and the American University
Virginia Jackson

Miya Qiong Xie
Territorializing Manchuria: The Transnational Frontier and Literatures of East Asia
Satoko Kakihara

Kristin Grogan
Stitch, Unstitch: Modernist Poetry and the World of Work
Keegan Cook Finberg

Sarah Gleeson-White
Silent Film and the Formations of U.S. Literary Culture: Literature in Motion
Donna M. Campbell