Category: Modern and Contemporary
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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…
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Taylor, Stuart J., Mathematics in Postmodern American Fiction
Stuart J. Taylor, Mathematics in Postmodern American Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024) ix+308 pp. £109.99 Hb. £89.99 ebook. ISBN: 978-3-031-48670-8 As mathematics appears unreasonably effective in defining and solving problems, we now observe its arresting spread, in real time, into each and every aspect of our life, through its various forms and incarnations – models, data,…
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Farzin, Sina, Gaines, Susan M. and Haynes, Roslynn D., Under the Literary Microscope: Science and Society in the Contemporary Novel
Sina Farzin, Susan M. Gaines and Roslynn D. Haynes, Under the Literary Microscope: Science and Society in the Contemporary Novel (Pennsylvania: Penn State University Press, 2021) 220 pp. $99.95 Hb. $34.95 Pb. ISBN: 9780271089782 Under the Literary Microscope: Science and Society in the Contemporary Novel is a new collection of essays by Farzin, Gaines and…
