Books Recently Reviewed in MHRA Journals

Reviews published in October to December 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 October to December 2025, alphabetized by the first-named author or editor of the book being reviewed.

Achille, Étienne, and Oana Panaïté, Fictions of Race in Contemporary French Literature: French Writers, White Writing: reviewed by Alice Flinta in MLR 120.4 (text at JSTOR)

Balkelis, Tomas, and Andrea Griffante (ed.), The Shaken Lands: Violence and the Crisis of Governance in East Central Europe, 1914–1923: reviewed by Jakub Beneš in SEER 103.3 (text at JSTOR)

Banerjee, Rita, and Yilin Chen (ed.), Shakespeare and the Political Elizabethan: Politics and Asian Exigencies: reviewed by Adam Hansen in MLR 120.4 (text at JSTOR)

Bartolini, Maria Gracia, In the Tight Triangle of the Night: The Early Poetry of Yuriy Tarnawsky (1956–1971), between Modernism and Postmodernism: reviewed by Arnold McMillin in SEER 103.3 (text at JSTOR)

Berruezo-Sánchez, Diana, Black Voices in Early Modern Spanish Literature, 1500–1750: reviewed by Nicholas R. Jones in MLR 120.4 (text at JSTOR)

Bogdan, Nina, Before We Disappear into Oblivion: San Francisco’s Russian Diaspora from Revolution to Cold War: reviewed by Alison Rowley in SEER 103.3 (text at JSTOR)

Brilli, Elisa, and Giuliano Milani, Dante’s New Lives: Biography and Autobiography: reviewed by Gianluca Caccialupi in MLR 120.4 (text at JSTOR)

Calvert, Katherine E., Modeling Motherhood in Weimar Germany: Political and Psychological Discourse in Women’s Writing: reviewed by Jill Suzanne Smith in MLR 120.4 (text at JSTOR)

Ehrig, Stephan, Benjamin Schaper, and Elizabeth Ward (ed.), Entertaining German Culture: Contemporary Transnational Television and Film: reviewed by Linda Shortt in MLR 120.4

English, Charlie, The CIA Book Club: The Best-Kept Secret of the Cold War: reviewed by Matthew Stibbe in SEER 103.3 (text at JSTOR)

Flanagan, Brenda A., and Hana Waisserová, Women’s Artistic Dissent: Repelling Totalitarianism in Pre-1989 Czechoslovakia: reviewed by Julia Sutton-Mattocks in SEER 103.3 (text at JSTOR)

Genetelli, Christian, Ilaria Cesaroni, and Gioele Marozzi, Leopardi e il paesaggio: Atti del XV Convengo internazionale di studi leopard-iani (Recanati 27–30 settembre 2021): reviewed by Luca Costa in MLR 120.4 (text at JSTOR)

Gillies, Richard Louis, Singing Soviet Stagnation: Vocal Cycles from the USSR, 1964–1985: reviewed by Peter J. Schmelz in SEER 103.3 (text at JSTOR)

Hilpert, Stephan, and Andrew J. Webber, Screening Work: The Films of Christian Petzold: reviewed by Anne Fuchs in MLR 120.4

Hofmeister, Karin Rogier, Remembering Suffering and Resistance: Memory Politics and the Serbian Orthodox Church: reviewed by Bojan Aleksov in SEER 103.3 (text at JSTOR)

Hui, Andrew, The Study: The Inner Life of Renaissance Libraries: reviewed by Ellen Werner in MLR 120.4 (text at JSTOR)

Kahn, Andrew, and Mark Lipovetsky, All the World on a Page: A Critical Anthology of Modern Russian Poetry: reviewed by James Rann in SEER 103.3 (text at JSTOR)

Knight, Claire, Stalin’s Final Films: Cinema, Socialist Realism, and Soviet Postwar Reality, 1945–1953: reviewed by Catriona Kelly in SEER 103.3 (text at JSTOR)

Korneeva, Marina, and David Gillespie, The History of Russian Literature on Film: reviewed by Otto Boele in SEER 103.3 (text at JSTOR)

Kozieł, Andrzej, Sławomir Stasiak, and Rajmund Pietkiewicz (ed.), Cistercian Abbey in Krzeszów: European Centre of Art and Theological Thought: reviewed by Wioletta Pawlikowska in SEER 103.3 (text at JSTOR)

Louth, Charlie, Crossings: Essays on Poetry and Translation from Hölderlin to Jaccottet: reviewed by Roger Paulin in MLR 120.4 (text at JSTOR)

Luce, Edward, Zbig: The Life of Zbigniew Brzezinski, America’s Great Power Prophet: reviewed by Raymond Taras in SEER 103.3 (text at JSTOR)

Marushiakova, Elana, and Vesselin Popov (ed.), Stalin vs Gypsies: Roma and Political Repressions in the USSR: reviewed by Huseyin S. Kyuchuk in SEER 103.3 (text at JSTOR)

Messiez, Pablo, The Eyes: reviewed by Georgina Fooks in MLR 120.4 (text at JSTOR)

Mogilner, Marina B. (ed.), Jews, Race, and the Politics of Difference: The Case of Vladimir Jabotinsky against the Russian Empire: reviewed by Brian Horowitz in SEER 103.3 (text at JSTOR)

Naliwajek, Katarzyna, Sounds of Apocalypse: Music in Poland under German Occupation: reviewed by Mikołaj Rykowski in SEER 103.3 (text at JSTOR)

Partlett, William, Why the Russian Constitution Matters: The Constitutional Dark Arts: reviewed by Bo Petersson in SEER 103.3 (text at JSTOR)

Peters, John G., Silence, Space and Absence in Conrad’s Works: Western and Non-Western Worlds: reviewed by James Ward in MLR 120.4 (text at JSTOR)

Pierce, J. Mackenzie, Sounds of Survival: Polish Music and the Holocaust: reviewed by Cindy Bylander in SEER 103.3 (text at JSTOR)

Porter, Jillian, and Maya Vinokour (ed.), Energy Culture: Work, Power, and Waste in Russia and the Soviet Union: reviewed by Brittany R. Roberts in MLR 120.4

Radchenko, Sergey, To Run the World: The Kremlin’s Cold War Bid for Global Power: reviewed by Timothy Nunan in SEER 103.3 (text at JSTOR)

Rayfield, Donald, A Seditious and Sinister Tribe: The Crimean Tatars and Their Khanate: reviewed by Brian Glyn Williams in SEER 103.3 (text at JSTOR)

Sandler, Stephanie, The Freest Speech in Russia: Poetry Unbound, 1989–2022: reviewed by Matilda Hicklin in MLR 120.4

Seargeant, Philip, The Future of Language: How Technology, Politics and Utopianism Are Transforming the Way We Communicate: reviewed by Bianca Alecu in MLR 120.4 (text at JSTOR)

Serafini, Stefano, Gothic Italy: Crime, Science, and Literature after Unification, 1861–1914: reviewed by Gennaro Ambrosino in MLR 120.4 (text at JSTOR)

Sharp, Sarah, Kirkyard Romanticism: Death, Modernity and Scottish Literature in the Nineteenth Century: reviewed by Beth Brigham in MLR 120.4 (text at JSTOR)

Shevelenko, Irina, Russian Archaism: Nationalism and the Quest for a Modernist Aesthetic: reviewed by F. Nethercott in SEER 103.3 (text at JSTOR)

Szymanska, Kasia, Translation Multiples: From Global Culture to Postcommunist Democracy: reviewed by Alex Braslavsky in SEER 103.3 (text at JSTOR)