Books Recently Reviewed in MHRA Journals

Reviews published in July to September 2025

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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 July to September 2025, alphabetized by the first-named author or editor of the book being reviewed.

Alonso, Angela, The Last Abolition: The Brazilian Antislavery Movement, 1868–1888: reviewed by Jenny Nelson in Luso-Ecologies

Andrew, Joe et al. (ed.), Joseph Brodsky and Modern Russian Culture: reviewed by Yuri Leving in SEER 103.2 (text at JSTOR)

Appelbaum, Anne, Autocracy Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World: reviewed by Arnold McMillin in SEER 103.2 (text at JSTOR)

Arnaut, Ana Paula, and Paulo de Medeiros (ed.), The Hypercontemporary Novel in Portugal: Fictional Aesthetics and Memory after Postmodernism: reviewed by Rui Miranda in Luso-Ecologies

Assmann, Aleida, and Jan Assmann, Gemeinsinn: Der sechtse, soziale Sinn: reviewed by Anne Fuchs in MLR 120.3 (text at JSTOR)

Bergholtz, Benjamin, Swallowing a World: Globalization and the Maximalist Novel: reviewed by Gabriele Lazzari in MLR 120.3 (text at JSTOR)

Blakesley, Rosalind, Women Artists in the Reign of Catherine the Great: reviewed by Ekaterina Heath in SEER 103.2 (text at JSTOR)

Boele, Otto, and Dorine Schellens (ed.), Reading Russian Literature, 1980–2024: Literary Consumption, Memory and Identity: reviewed by Elizabeth A. Skomp in SEER 103.2 (text at JSTOR)

Bredendick, Nancy, 'Vidas sombrías' de Pío Baroja en primer plano: reviewed by C. A. Longhurst in MLR 120.3 (text at JSTOR)

Brown, Hilary, Women and Early Modern Cultures of Translation: Beyond the Female Tradition: reviewed by Joanna Raisbeck in MLR 120.3 (text at JSTOR)

Búr, Gábor, István Pál, and Ádám Stempler, Followed by the Affected Compassion of the Free World: The 1956 Revolution from Different Perspectives: reviewed by Gábor Bátonyi in SEER 103.2 (text at JSTOR)

Ciambella, Fabio, Dance Lexicon in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries: A Corpus-Based Approach: reviewed by Andrew Hiscock in MLR 120.3 (text at JSTOR)

Dickson, Polly, Romanticism, Realism and the Lines of Mimesis: reviewed by Alexander Sorenson in MLR 120.3 (text at JSTOR)

Drakakis, John, Tragedy: reviewed by Oliver Taplin in MLR 120.3 (text at JSTOR)

Durand, Marcella, and Jennifer Firestone (ed.), Other Influences: An Untold History of Feminist Avant-Garde Poetry: reviewed by Rona Cran in MLR 120.3 (text at JSTOR)

Eaton, Nicole, German Blood, Slavic Soil: How Nazi Königsberg became Soviet Kaliningrad: reviewed by Mark Edele in SEER 103.2 (text at JSTOR)

Etkind, Alexander, Russia against Modernity: reviewed by Katharine Hodgson in MLR 120.3 (text at JSTOR)

Faini, Marco, Standing at the Crossroads: Stories of Doubt in Renaissance Italy: reviewed by Albert Russell Ascoli in MLR 120.3 (text at JSTOR)

Falina, Maria, Religion and Politics in Interwar Yugoslavia: Serbian Nationalism and East Orthodox Christianity: reviewed by Bojan Aleksov in SEER 103.2 (text at JSTOR)

Ferrer, Olga Sendra, Barcelona, City of Margins: reviewed by Duncan Wheeler in MLR 120.3 (text at JSTOR)

Frank, Christine, and Sugi Shindo (ed.), Konstellationen österreichischer Literatur: Ilse Aichinger: reviewed by Alessandra Guaran in MLR 120.3 (text at JSTOR)

Gurr, Jens Martin, Understanding Public Debates: What Literary Studies Can Do: reviewed by Spiros Chairetis in MLR 120.3 (text at JSTOR)

Haase, Jenny, and Joanna Neilly (ed.), German Romanticism and Latin America: New Connections in World Literature: reviewed by Johannes D. Kaminski in MLR 120.3 (text at JSTOR)

Hellebust, Rolf, How Russian Literature Became Great: reviewed by Otto Boele in SEER 103.2 (text at JSTOR)

Hornsby, Robert, The Soviet Sixties: reviewed by Christine Varga-Harris in SEER 103.2 (text at JSTOR)

James, Michael, Poetry and Strikes: Trade Union Narratives and Legacies: reviewed by Adam Hansen in MLR 120.3 (text at JSTOR)

Kliger, Ilya, Sovereign Fictions: Poetics and Politics in the Age of Russian Realism: reviewed by Miquel Cabal-Guarro in SEER 103.2 (text at JSTOR)

Klimentov, Vassily, A Slow Reckoning: The USSR, the Afghan Communists, and Islam: reviewed by Siarhei A. Bohdan in SEER 103.2 (text at JSTOR)

Komar, Hanna, Kali ja vyjdu na voliu: reviewed by Arnold McMillin in SEER 103.2 (text at JSTOR)

Koutsourakis, Angelos, Kafkaesque Cinema: reviewed by Ian Ellison in MLR 120.3 (text at JSTOR)

Lidster, Amy, Wartime Shakespeare: Performing Narratives of Conflict: reviewed by Monika Smialkowska in MLR 120.3 (text at JSTOR)

Martinsen, Deborah A., Dostoevsky's 'Crime and Punishment': A Reader's Guide: reviewed by Muireann Maguire in MLR 120.3 (text at JSTOR)

McMurtry, Áine, Barbara Siller, and Sandra Vlasta (ed.), Mehrsprachigkeit in der Literatur: Das probeweise Einführen neuer Spielregeln: reviewed by David Gramling in MLR 120.3 (text at JSTOR)

Milani, Mila, Publishing Contemporary Foreign Poetry: Transnational Exchange in the Italian Publishing Field, 1939–1977: reviewed by Anna Saroldi in MLR 120.3 (text at JSTOR)

Minkenberg, Michael, and Zsuzsanna Végh, Depleting Democracies: Radical Right Impact on Parties, Policies and Polities in Eastern Europe: reviewed by Mila Moshelova in SEER 103.2 (text at JSTOR)

Palmer, Isobel, Revolutions in Verse: The Medium of Russian Modernism: reviewed by Philip Bullock in SEER 103.2 (text at JSTOR)

Pazos-Alonso, Cláudia, Francisca Wood and Nineteenth-Century Periodical Culture: Pressing for Change: reviewed by Monica Chagas da Costa in Luso-Ecologies

Peri, Alexis, Dear Unknown Friend: The Remarkable Correspondence between American and Soviet Women: reviewed by Alison Rowley in SEER 103.2 (text at JSTOR)

Perović, Jeronim, Fuel and Power: Energy, Trade, and Russian Foreign Relations from Lenin to Putin: reviewed by R. Dannreuther in SEER 103.2 (text at JSTOR)

Petrović, Tanya, Utopia of the Uniform: Affective Afterlives of the Yugoslav People's Army: reviewed by Nicholas Lackenby in SEER 103.2 (text at JSTOR)

Popescu, Bogdan G., Imperial Borderlands: Institutions and Legacies of the Habsburg Military Frontier: reviewed by John Deak in SEER 103.2 (text at JSTOR)

Popoff, Alexandra, Ayn Rand: Writing a Gospel of Success: reviewed by Svetlana Shnitman-McMillin in SEER 103.2 (text at JSTOR)

Rodrigues, Ricardo Rato, A Slow Scream: Trauma and Madness in the Biographemical Early Works of António Lobo Antunes: reviewed by Patrícia Martinho Ferreira in Luso-Ecologies

Santos, Rubén Romero, El detective mutante: las adaptaciones cinematográficas y televisivas de Pepe Carvalho: reviewed by Duncan Wheeler in MLR 120.3 (text at JSTOR)

Santos, Rubén Romero, and Ana Mejón, Barcelona en doce películas: reviewed by Duncan Wheeler in MLR 120.3 (text at JSTOR)

Stegemann, Luke, Madrid: A New Biography: reviewed by Enrique García Santo-Tomás in MLR 120.3 (text at JSTOR)

Taube, Moshe, The Cultural Legacy of the Pre-Ashkenazic Jews in Eastern Europe: reviewed by Andrii Danylenko in SEER 103.2 (text at JSTOR)

Tolan, Fiona, The Fiction of Margaret Atwood: reviewed by Kiriaki Massoura in MLR 120.3 (text at JSTOR)

Voronina, Olga, Tainopis´: Nabokov. Arkhiv. Podtekst: reviewed by Ludmila Shleyfer Lavine in SEER 103.2 (text at JSTOR)

Wang, Emily, Pushkin, The Decembrists, and Civic Sentimentalism: reviewed by James Rann in MLR 120.3 (text at JSTOR)

Wang, Emily, Pushkin, the Decembrists, and Civic Sentimentalism: reviewed by Patrick O'Meara in SEER 103.2 (text at JSTOR)

Whitewood, Peter, The Soviet-Polish War and Its Legacy: Lenin's Defeat and the Rise of Stalinism: reviewed by Michael Jabara Carley in SEER 103.2 (text at JSTOR)

Zhulina, Alisa, Theater of Capital: Modern Drama and Economic Life: reviewed by Alisa Ballard Lin in MLR 120.3 (text at JSTOR)