Books Recently Reviewed in MHRA Journals

Reviews published in January to March 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 January to March 2026, alphabetized by the first-named author or editor of the book being reviewed.

Ajdačić, Dejan, and Zorica Đergović-Joksimović, Futurofantastika: reviewed by Maxim Shadurski in MLR 121.1 (text at JSTOR)

Bacon, Eugene (ed.), Afro-Centered Futurisms in our Speculative Fiction: reviewed by Brittany Atkins in MLR 121.1 (text at JSTOR)

Barański, Zygmunt G., Theodore J. Cachey, Jr, and Anna Pegoretti (ed.), Now Feed Yourself: Anglo-American and Italian Scholarship on Dante: reviewed by Alison Cornish in MLR 121.1 (text at JSTOR)

Burchett, Wilfred G., The Captains' Coup: From Dictatorship to Democracy in Portugal (1974–1976): reviewed by João Sarmento in Fortieth Anniversary Special Issue (text at JSTOR)

Collins, Matthew, Reading Dante with Images: A Visual Lectura Dantis: reviewed by Rebecca Bowen in MLR 121.1 (text at JSTOR)

Elias, Marcel, English Literature and the Crusades: Anxieties of Holy War, 1291–1453: reviewed by Emily Dolmans in MLR 121.1 (text at JSTOR)

Finger, Anke, and Julie Shoults (ed.), Women in German Expressionism: Gender, Sexuality, Activism: reviewed by Andreas Kramer in MLR 121.1 (text at JSTOR)

Fisher, Naomi, Schelling’s Mystical Platonism, 1792–1802: reviewed by Paul Bishop in MLR 121.1 (text at JSTOR)

Fox, Renée, The Necromantics: Reanimation, the Historical Imagination, and Victorian British and Irish Literature: reviewed by Sarah Worgan in MLR 121.1 (text at JSTOR)

Gaborik, Patricia, Pirandello in Context: reviewed by Daragh O'Connell in MLR 121.1 (text at JSTOR)

Gøttcke, Leander Møller, The Crisis of Liberal Democracy in Contemporary Novels; or, The Continuation of History: reviewed by Sarah Colvin in MLR 121.1 (text at JSTOR)

Jones, Cassandra L., Black Speculative Feminisms: Memory and Liberated Futures in Black Women’s Fiction: reviewed by Tharita Intanam in MLR 121.1 (text at JSTOR)

Knight, Claire, Stalin’s Final Films: Cinema, Socialist Realism, and Soviet Postwar Reality, 1945–1953: reviewed by Kirill Goriachok in MLR 121.1 (text at JSTOR)

Loughnane, Rory, and Willy Maley, Editing Archipelagic Shakespeare: reviewed by Patrick J. Murray in MLR 121.1 (text at JSTOR)

Mansky, Joseph, Libels and Theater in Shakespeare’s England: Publics, Politics, Performance: reviewed by Adam Hansen in MLR 121.1 (text at JSTOR)

Martin, Regina, Modernism and Finance Capital: British Literature, 1870–1940: reviewed by Zizhan Li in MLR 121.1

McAteer, Cathy, Cold War Women: Female Translators of Russian and Soviet Literature in the Twentieth Century: reviewed by Susan Pickford in MLR 121.1 (text at JSTOR)

McReynolds, J. Clayton, Reading Words into Worlds: Phenomenological Mimesis of Givenness in the Novel: reviewed by Josh Pittman in MLR 121.1

Morson, Gary Saul, Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why their Answers Matter: reviewed by Roger Cockrell in MLR 121.1 (text at JSTOR)

Nafafé, José Lingna, Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the Seventeenth Century: reviewed by Selina Patel Nascimento in Fortieth Anniversary Special Issue (text at JSTOR)

Schwebel, Leah, Tropes of Engagement: Chaucer’s Italian Poetics of Intertextuality: reviewed by Gillian Adler in MLR 121.1 (text at JSTOR)

Siemens, Daniel, Writing against Hitler: Hermann Budzislawski and the Making of Twentieth-Century Socialism: reviewed by Ellen Pilsworth in MLR 121.1 (text at JSTOR)

Thomaz, Daniel Mandur, Transatlantic Radio Dramas: Antônio Callado and the BBC Latin American Service during and after World War II: reviewed by Eva Nieto Mcavoy in Fortieth Anniversary Special Issue (text at JSTOR)

Twist, Joseph (ed.), Cultural Responses to the Far Right in Contemporary Germany: Kunstszene gegen rechte Szene: reviewed by Alexander D. Brown in MLR 121.1 (text at JSTOR)

Wilson, W. Daniel, Goethe und die Juden: Faszination und Feindschaft: reviewed by Karin Schutjer in MLR 121.1 (text at JSTOR)

Womack, Peter, Shakespeare, the Sea and the Stage: reviewed by Margaret Tudeau-Clayton in MLR 121.1 (text at JSTOR)