Volume 33, Issue 1, January 2026

34-4 Cover featuring Munch set design
Edvard Munch, set design for Ibsen’s Ghosts. Basel, Switzerland, 1906. Courtesy of Kunstmuseum Basel.

The Dispossessing of Sylvia Beach: Property, Autonomy, Personhood
Robert Spoo

Slum Clearance and the Disappearing City in Roy Fisher’s City
Ameeth Vijay

The Interracial Screen Kiss: Haptic Cinema and Racial Politics in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World
Bryony Armstrong

Enchanted But Enchained: Harriet Monroe, W. E. B. Du Bois, and the Grand Canyon
Sean Collins

Joyce’s Syphilis Play: Pedagogy and the Public in “Circe”
Annabel Quinn Barry

What was an Emotion?: T. S. Eliot and Bertrand Russell
David Dwan

Modernism’s Sick Souls: William James and the Modernist Mind Science of James Agee and Walker Evans’s Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
Stephanie Hawkins

The Ethical Labor of Ekphrasis in James Agee and Walker Evans’s Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
Ashley Brock

Review Essay

Alex Christie
Paper Processors: Modern Manuscripts and the Pre-History of Digital Humanities
Meredith Martin
Poetry’s Data: Digital Humanities and the History of Prosody
Reviewed by Emily Christina Murphy

Book Reviews

Jason Allen-Paisant
Engagements with Aimé Césaire: Thinking with Spirits
Aliya Ram

Stephen Romer
Chaos and the Clean Line: Writings on Franco-British Modernism
Michael Coyle

Shiben Banerji
Lineages of the Global City: Occult Modernism and the Spiritualization of Democracy
Kristin Bluemel

Daniel Ferrer
Genetic Criticism and its Logics: The Draft and the Text
Shinjini Chattopadhyay

Preetha Mani
The Idea of Indian Literature: Gender, Genre, and Comparative Method
Rajgopal Saikumar

Shaj Mathew
The Dialectic of Cosmopolitan Time
Levi Thompson