Category: Modern and Contemporary
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Hay, Jonathan, Science Fiction and Posthumanism in the Anthropocene
Jonathan Hay, Science Fiction and Posthumanism in the Anthropocene (Bloomsbury Academic, 2025) xiv + 240pp. £85.00 Hb. £28.99 Pb. £76.50 Ebook: PDF/Epub/Mobi. ISBN 9781350465954 The science fiction (SF) genre typically contains a fantast technological or scientific element: constructed or evolved, not conjured through magic. Darko Suvin defined this feature as the novum. Jonathan Hay’s monograph…
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Gifford, Terry, Reading D. H. Lawrence in the Anthropocene
Terry Gifford, Reading D. H. Lawrence in the Anthropocene (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2025) 280pp. £95 Hb. ISBN: 9781399535939 Terry Gifford’s D. H. Lawrence in the Anthropocene offers readers a comprehensive compilation of works by Lawrencian scholars that follows a cleverly crafted and well-written introduction attesting to the importance of Lawrence’s works. Gifford opens the…
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Parashar, Kunjana, They Gather Around Me, The Animals
Kunjana Parashar, They Gather Around Me, The Animals (NFSPS Press, 2025) 88 pp. £13.99 Pb. ISBN: 979-8-9929766-0-1 This debut poetry collection begins with a dedication like no other—non-human, ecocentric, spanning species, substances, phenomena and processes, Parashar’s deceptively humble lexicon brings immediate reverence to members and mechanisms of an ecosystem sometimes evoking twenty-nine images within fourteen…
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Heffernan, Conor, Emma Tonkin, Linda Flores Ohlson (eds), Zombies in Contemporary Culture: Journeys, Bodies, Pandemics and Politics
Conor Heffernan, Emma Tonkin and Linda Flores Ohlson (eds), Zombies in Contemporary Culture: Journeys, Bodies, Pandemics and Politics (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2025) 256 pp. £75.00 Hb. ISBN: 9781837723034 Zombies in Contemporary Culture: Journeys, Bodies, Pandemics and Politics, edited by Conor Heffernan, Emma Tonkin and Linda Flores Ohlson, is a timely contribution to the…
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Armstrong, Patrick, Microscopy, Magnification and Modernist Fiction: Micro-Modernism from Hardy to Beckett
Patrick Armstrong, Microscopy, Magnification and Modernist Fiction: Micro-Modernism from Hardy to Beckett (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025) 256 pp. £85.00 Hb. ISBN: 978-1-3504-2018-2 Patrick Armstrong’s Microscopy, Magnification and Modernist Fiction: Micro-Modernism from Hardy to Beckett joins a growing body of interdisciplinary scholarship on modernism’s engagements with science, foregrounding the cultural and aesthetic consequences of microscopic vision. Focusing on what Armstrong…
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Gupta, Suman and Peter H. Tu, The Practical Philosophy of AI-Assistants: An Engineering-Humanities Conversation
Suman Gupta and Peter H. Tu, The Practical Philosophy of AI-Assistants: An Engineering-Humanities Conversation (World Scientific, 2024) 280 pp. $30. Pb. ISBN 978-1-80061-421-5. The Practical Philosophy of AI-Assistants is an insightful and oft-playful exploration of the various conundrums that arise when envisioning the ultimate AI assistant. The apparent intention of the text is not to…
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De Kruif, Paul, Microbe Hunters
Paul De Kruif, Microbe Hunters (India: Grapevine, 2023) 257 pp. ₹ 260 Pb. ISBN-13: 978-9357894272 2026 marks a hundred years since Paul de Kruif, an American microbiologist-turned-journalist, published Microbe Hunters, a book that quickly became a popular gateway into the dramatic world of microbes and the scientists who pursued them. Characterised by its energetic narrative…
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Endersby, Jim, The Arrival of the Fittest: Biology’s Imaginary Futures 1900–1935
Jim Endersby, The Arrival of the Fittest: Biology’s Imaginary Futures 1900–1935, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2025) 400 pp. $37.50 Pb. ISBN: 9780226837567 Jim Endersby’s The Arrival of the Fittest: Biology’s Imaginary Futures, 1900-1935 intervenes in histories of evolution by unearthing the popularity of a largely dismissed theory: mutation. Tracing the diffusion of Hugo de…
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Harrison, Jaime, Digital Culture in Contemporary Fiction
Jaime Harrison, Digital Culture in Contemporary Fiction (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2024), 208 pp. £80 Hb. ISBN:9781802074710 The texts that Jaime Harrison considers in Digital Culture in Contemporary Fiction are part of a broader discussion of contemporary concerns about the way that digital culture, particularly issues of privacy and digital surveillance, can be witnessed in…
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Hamann-Rose, Paul, Genetics and the Novel: Reimagining Life Through Fiction
Paul Hamann-Rose, Genetics and the Novel: Reimagining Life Through Fiction, Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024) 243 pp. £99.00 Hb. £79.99 eBook. ISBN: 9783031531002 In 1953, when James Watson and Francis Crick unveiled the double helix structure of DNA, some marvelled at the molecular blueprint of life, while others speculated…
