The first issue of volume thirty one of Modernism/modernity is here and the range and depth of the essays in the new issue is noteworthy. The issue will be in your mailbox soon, and one way to “tame the wild profusion of existing things” in the journal here (to steal Foucault’s phrase) would be to say that you will see two essays on theater, two on the varied analyses of film and its histories, two widely different essays on the Harlem renaissance, one on the materialist politics of the English language in George Orwell’s essay, and a fascinating reading of Joyce’s Dublin and meteorological modernism. Or that in this issue, there’s theater, fiction, non-fiction, poetry, music, and film. These are two of the many ways you could attempt to corral the variety of this issue.

As teasers, there will be Barry Shiels’s essay, “The Meteorological Device: Literary Modernism, the Daily Weather Forecast and the Productions of Anxiety” on open access on Print Plus next week, and the week after there will be Shaj Mathew’s review of the book edited by Zeynep Çelik, Europe Knows Nothing about the Orient: A Critical Discourse from the East (1872–1932).

As exclusive matter on Print Plus as well, there is much to read and to wait for: do see Nathan Timpano’s “A Language of Esoteric Signs: Deciphering Jewish and Masonic Gestures in Viennese Expressionism” and Elizabeth Alsop's piece, "Woman with a Movie Camera: Marie Menken’s Visual Variations on Noguchi (1945)” (in the blog, “Visualities”). Look out also for Victoria Papa’s “Queer Kinship among the Stars: H.D., Silvia Dobson, and Astrology” (as part of the blog, “Orientations”).

—Anjali Nerlekar