The new cluster on Print Plus, "Modernism and Elegy," published on May 13, seems remarkably timely. "These essays have been written in an extended moment of accumulating political and humanitarian crises, as violence looms as the dominant social grammar in larger public spheres," writes the editor of the cluster, David Sherman. A whole variety of aspects of what contributor Eve Sorum calls "modernism's elegiac attention" are examined in the essays. They cover topics from the economics of...
