Tag: 2025
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Keisman, Eleanor, New Animal
Eleanor Keisman, New Animal (Broken Tribe Press, 2025) 115 pp. $12.95 Pb. ISBN: 9781965412312. Eleanor Keisman’s debut novella, New Animal (2025), is an evocative climate science fiction tale of survival that is less about escaping climate distress and more about remembering the importance of relying on one another despite it all. What makes Keisman’s cli-fi…
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Cole, Lucinda, The Fifth Plague: Cattle, Contagion, and the Medical Posthumanities
Lucinda Cole, The Fifth Plague: Cattle, Contagion, and the Medical Posthumanities (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025) xii, 260 pp. £87.50 ebook £109.99 Hb. ISBN: 978-3031927928 Lucinda Cole’s The Fifth Plague: Cattle, Contagion, and the Medical Posthumanities, published as part of the series, Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature, takes up the vexing and urgent question of how…
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Skuse, Alanna, Hurt Feelings: Wounding Oneself in Early Modern Literature
Alanna Skuse, Hurt Feelings: Wounding Oneself in Early Modern Literature (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025)246 pp. Open access eBook. ISBN: 978-3-032-04565-2. £44.99 Hb. ISBN: 978-3-032-04564-5 Hurt Feelings is an exploration of the range of functions to which self-wounding could be put in early modern literature. Alanna Skuse analyses five categories of function: persuasion (chapter 2), protest…
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Riccardi, Silvia, Dark Romanticism: Literature, Art, and the Body
Silvia Riccardi, Dark Romanticism: Literature, Art, and the Body, (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025) 242 pp. £109.99 Hb, ISBN 978-3-031-64364-4 Silvia Riccardi’s Dark Romanticism: Literature, Art and the Body brings together elements of the visual, literary, and scientific in a beautifully illustrated and incredibly detailed volume. Throughout the work, Riccardi presents a fascinating interplay between the…
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Durham, Rebecca A., Be Still Mere Molecule
Rebecca A. Durham, Be Still Mere Molecule (Raleigh, NC, USA: Broken Tribe Press, 2025) 120 pp. $14.95 Pb. ISBN: 9781965412107 How does a poet witness the world? How does a scientist? What if a person were to be both at once? Would that experience of the in-betweenness of both worlds aid them in finding, perhaps…
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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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Berry, Chelsea, Poisoned Relations: Healing, Power, and Contested Knowledge in the Atlantic World
Chelsea Berry, Poisoned Relations: Healing, Power, and Contested Knowledge in the Atlantic World (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025) 273 pp. $49.95 Hb. ISBN: 9781512826494 Chelsea Berry’s work Poisoned Relations: Healing, Power, and Contested Knowledge in the Atlantic World is a deeply interdisciplinary study that reimagines how we understand poison, healing, and power in the context…
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Hayles, N. Katherine, Bacteria to AI: Futures with our Nonhuman Symbionts
N. Katherine Hayles, Bacteria to AI: Futures with our Nonhuman Symbionts (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2025) 304 pp. $27.50 Pb. ISBN: 9780226837475 As a species, we Homo sapiens often take it for granted that humanity is separate from, and superior to, the rest of existence. It’s a view that has permeated much of our…
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Martin, Meredith, Poetry’s Data: Digital Humanities and the History of Prosody
Meredith Martin, Poetry’s Data: Digital Humanities and the History of Prosody (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2025) 224 pp. £84 Hb. £30 Pb. ISBN: 9780691254678 Meredith Martin’s Poetry’s Data is a large-scale attempt to bring together literary studies, linguistics, digital humanities, and critical archives studies. It presents a compelling case on why we should critically examine…
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Markovits, Stefanie, The Number Sense of Nineteenth-Century British Literature
Stefanie Markovits, The Number Sense of Nineteenth-Century British Literature (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025) 240 pp. $100 Hb. ISBN: 9780198937791 ‘Number sense’ is the term Stefanie Markovits uses to describe the numerical thinking that permeates the lines and pages of nineteenth-century novels and poems, crafting patterns across the tapestry of poetic imagery and narrative arcs. As she…
