Books Recently Reviewed in MHRA Journals

Reviews published in April to June 2026

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MHRA journals have been reviewing new additions to the scholarly literature since 1905. This page lists the reviews published by us in the quarter April to June 2026, alphabetized by the first-named author or editor of the book being reviewed.

Babka, Lukáš, Slovanská knihovna 1924–2024 (Průvodce po dějinách, fondech a službách) / The Slavonic Library, Prague 1924–2024 (A Guide to its History, Funds and Services): reviewed by E. Rogatchevskaia in SEER 103.4 (text at JSTOR)

Bernocchi, Ilaria, Niccolò Morelli, and Federica Pich, Petrarch and Sixteenth-Century Italian Portraiture: reviewed by Jonathan Schiesaro in MLR 121.2

Blanco, John D., Counter-Hispanization in the Colonial Philippines: Literature, Law, Religion, and Native Custom: reviewed by Luis Castellví Laukamp in MLR 121.2

Carleton, Gregory, Crimean Quagmire: Tolstoy, Russell and the Birth of Modern Warfare: reviewed by Ran Wei in SEER 103.4 (text at JSTOR)

Carmichael, Cathie, The Habsburg Garrison Complex in Trebinje: A Lost World: reviewed by Bojan Aleksov in SEER 103.4 (text at JSTOR)

Cavanagh, Sheila T., Multisensory Shakespeare and Specialized Communities: reviewed by Adam Hansen in MLR 121.2 (text at JSTOR)

Chunikhin, Kirill, Shared Images: A History of American Art in the Soviet Union during the Cold War: reviewed by E. Zubiuk in SEER 103.4 (text at JSTOR)

Davies, Mererid Puw, Poetic Writing and the Vietnam War in West Germany: reviewed by Seán Allan in MLR 121.2

Djokić, Dejan, A Concise History of Serbia: reviewed by Vuk Uskoković in SEER 103.4

Dolack, Tom (ed.), Russian Literature and Cognitive Science: reviewed by Angela Brintlinger in SEER 103.4 (text at JSTOR)

Emerson, Barbara, The First Cold War: Anglo-Russian Relations in the 19th Century: reviewed by Anna Maslenova in SEER 103.4 (text at JSTOR)

Forsdick, Charles, and Claire Launchbury (ed.), Transnational French Studies: reviewed by Steven Wilson in MLR 121.2

Godfrey, Mollie, Brave Humanism: Black Women Rewriting the Human in the Age of Jane Crow: reviewed by Courtney L. Novosat in MLR 121.2 (text at JSTOR)

Grant, Paul Benedict, The Humour of Vladimir Nabokov: Mind and Matter: reviewed by Eric Naiman in SEER 103.4 (text at JSTOR)

Grøtta, Marit, Reading Portrait Photographs in Proust, Kafka and Woolf: Modernism, Media and Emotion: reviewed by Ian Ellison in MLR 121.2

Hörcher, Ferenc, Tóth, and Kálmán (ed.), 19th-Century Hungarian Political Thought and Culture: Towards Settlement with Austria, 1790–1867: reviewed by Ian D. Armour in SEER 103.4 (text at JSTOR)

Ingram, Allan, Clark Lawlor, and Helen Williams, Myth and (Mis)information: Constructing the Medical Professions in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century English Literature and Culture: reviewed by Emily Cock in MLR 121.2 (text at JSTOR)

Ivanova, Mirela, Inventing Slavonic: Cultures of Writing between Rome and Constantinople: reviewed by R. M. Cleminson in SEER 103.4 (text at JSTOR)

Jones, Nicholas R., Cervantine Blackness: reviewed by Cornesha Tweede in MLR 121.2

Kähär-Peterson, Kadi, Garlieb Merkel's Political Thought: A Baltic Perspective on Enlightenment: reviewed by Roger Bartlett in SEER 103.4 (text at JSTOR)

Kirschenbaum, Lisa A., Soviet Adventures in the Land of the Capitalists: Ilf and Petrov’s American Road Trip: reviewed by Miquel Cabal-Guarro in MLR 121.2

Maddocks, Fiona, Goodbye Russia: Rachmaninoff in Exile: reviewed by Rebecca Mitchell in SEER 103.4 (text at JSTOR)

Marchesi, Simone, Vernacular Edens: Tropes of Translation in Medieval European Fictions: reviewed by George Rayson in MLR 121.2

Milutinović, Zoran, When Criticism Goes to War: Njegoš, Andrić and their Detractors: reviewed by David A. Norris in MLR 121.2

Naganawa, Norihiro (ed.), Dreams of Emancipation: A Transnational History of Revolutionary Russia: reviewed by Naira E. Sahakyan in SEER 103.4 (text at JSTOR)

Orr, Mary, Sarah Bowdich Lee (1791–1856) and Pioneering Perspectives on Natural History: reviewed by Sumin Kim in MLR 121.2 (text at JSTOR)

Press, Ian et al, Colloquial Ukrainian: The Complete Course for Beginners: reviewed by Marta Jenkala in SEER 103.4 (text at JSTOR)

Reuter, Anni, Suomalaiset Stalinin puhdistuksissa: reviewed by Steven A. Usitalo in SEER 103.4 (text at JSTOR)

Rushworth, Jennifer, Proust’s Songbook: Songs and their Uses: reviewed by Eli Zuzovsky in MLR 121.2 (text at JSTOR)

Sandler, Stephanie, The Freest Speech in Russia: Poetry Unbound, 1989–2022: reviewed by Sofya Khagi in SEER 103.4 (text at JSTOR)

Sándor, Bene (ed.), Magyar sztoikusok. Tanulmányok a sztoicizmus magyarországi történetéről: reviewed by George Gömöri in SEER 103.4 (text at JSTOR)

Scott, Clive, The Tremors of Translation: An Edition of Voltaire’s ‘Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne’ (1756): reviewed by Siofra Pierse in MLR 121.2 (text at JSTOR)

Theocharis, Angelos, Diaspora Reads: Community, Identity, and Russian Literaturocentrism: reviewed by Iana Moskalenko in SEER 103.4

Tignol, Eve, Grief and the Shaping of Muslim Communities in North India, c. 1857–1940s: reviewed by Hanzala Mojibi in MLR 121.2 (text at JSTOR)

Torres, Anna Elena, Horizons Blossom, Borders Vanish: Anarchism and Yiddish Literature: reviewed by Ernest Schonfield in MLR 121.2

Wortham, Simon, Reading Robert Walser: Criticism, Creativity, Correspondence: reviewed by Richard McClelland in MLR 121.2