If you would like to review one of the books below, please contact Jay Labinger.
Current as of August 5, 2026
New listings:
In Quest of a Cure: Literary and Medical Cultures of the Health Resort by Sally Shuttlesworth (Oxford UP) https://global.oup.com/academic/product/in-quest-of-a-cure-9780198972440?cc=gb&lang=en&#
A Perfectionist Impulse: The Art of Stopping Time in the Nineteenth Century by Ellery E. Foutch (University of Minnesota Press) https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517916480/a-perfectionist-impulse/
Jagged Ontologies by Cary Wolfe (University of Minnesota Press) https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517921064/jagged-ontologies/
Digital Animalities: Mediating Life in an Age of Planetary Domestication edited by Jody Berland and Thomas Lamarre (University of Minnesota Press) https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517918194/digital-animalities/
Learning under Algorithmic Conditions edited by Elizabeth de Freitas, Matthew X. Curinga, Ezekiel J. Dixon-Román, and P. Taylor Webb (University of Minnesota Press) https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517920050/learning-under-algorithmic-conditions/
Fi-Sci: Avatars of Science in Fiction by Rhona Trauvitch (Ohio State UP)
Transgressing Time: The Device at the Heart of Time Travel by Edward Royston (Ohio State UP)
Sleep and Its Meanings: Sociocultural Investigations from Critical Sleep Studies edited by Diletta De Cristofaro (MIT Press)
Entangled Life in Twenty-First-Century Fiction by Liliane Campos (Cambridge UP)
Inside the Body of Black Feminism: Science, Race, Culture by Samantha Pinto (Duke UP)
Decolonizing Disease by Claire Chambers (Liverpool UP)
Tales of Health: Illness, Disability, and Citizenship in the Romantic National Tale by Matthew L. Reznicek (Liverpool UP)
The Sciences of the Senses in Romantic Literature by Sophie Musitelli (Cambridge UP)
Making Madness Visible: A Cultural History of How Mental Disorder is Visualised by Alvise Sforza Tarabochia (Liverpool UP)
Woolf, Bergson and the Sciences: Modernist Animals byCandice Kent (Routledge) https://www.routledge.com/Woolf-Bergson-and-the-Sciences-Modernist-Animals/Kent/p/book/9781041049890
Viktor Shklovsky’s Involuntary Modernism Writing and Other Bodily Functions by Asiya Bulatova (Bloomsbury) https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/viktor-shklovskys-involuntary-modernism-9781350422612/
Novel Atmospheres: Air, Affect, and Literary ModernismbyAnna Jones Abramson (Johns Hopkins UP) https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/12455/novel-atmospheres
Dis/Trusting the Digital World in Imaginative Literature edited by Adam Kelly and Katerina Pavlidi (Edinburgh UP) https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-dis-trusting-the-digital-world-in-imaginative-literature.html
Out of Paper by Katie Anania (Yale UP) https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300272239/out-of-paper/
Master-Narrative Transitions from the Vikings to Artificial Intelligence: How Fiction Helps Communities Adapt to a Changing World by Mads Larsen (Routledge) https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781003733416/master-narrative-transitions-vikings-artificial-intelligence-mads-larsen
Citizen Beast: The Place of the Animals in the Roman Empire by Martin Devecka (Johns Hopkins UP) https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/53910/citizen-beast
Jules Verne’s From the Earth to the Moon, Annotated for Our Spacefaring Age edited by Anastasia Klimchynskaya (MIT Press) https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262553865/from-the-earth-to-the-moon/
Coloniality and Structural Othering in European Thought | A Racialized Canonby Maurizio Meloni (Routledge)
Ever New Earths: Columns from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction by James Sallis (U. Iowa Press)
Novel Ecologies: Nature Remade and the Illusions of TechbyAllison Carruth (U. Chicago Press)
American Romanticism and the Evolutionary Idea by Jennifer J. Baker (Stanford UP)
Archives of the Anthropocene: Visual Grammars of Deep Time, by Yuriko Furuhata (Duke UP)
Unclaimed books from the previous list:
Animal Illness and the Literary Imagination by Ray Malewitz (Cambridge UP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/animal-illness-and-the-literary-imagination/BA1661A135B5E8FFD1E389BA389E102A
Auteur-Publishers: Small Press Practices as Avant-Garde Writing by Craig Saper (Edinburgh UP) https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-auteur-publishers.html
The Impossible Reversal: A History of How We Play by Peter D. McDonald (U. Minnesota Press) https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517916220/the-impossible-reversal/
Matterphorics: On the Laws of Theory by Daniela Gandorfer (Duke UP)
Bridging Benjamin: A Philosophy of Technology, Place, and Education by Dominic Smith (U. Minnesota Press) https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517919658/bridging-benjamin/
Inventing Ecosystems: The Rhetoric of Science in an Ecological Age by Madison Jones (Springer)
Rhetorical Ecologies edited by Sidney Dobrin and Madison Jones (NCTE) (this with the previous entry might be considered for a joint review)
Spontaneous Objects: A Natural History of Art and Its Others by Rebecca Zorach (Penn State UP) https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/2/monograph/book/139078
Portraits of Empiricism: Art Histories from an Intellectual Tradition by C.Oliver O’Donnell (Penn State UP)
Dangerous Creations: The Inventor Novel in Fin-de-Siècle France by Ana Oancea (U. Toronto Press) https://utppublishing.com/doi/book/10.3138/9781487546229
Poetic Drive: American Poetry in the Age of Automobility by Joel Duncan (UVA Press)
Photographing Ambiguity by Ted Hiebert (U. Toronto Press) https://utppublishing.com/doi/book/10.3138/9781487537586
The Space of the World by Nick Couldry (Wiley)
The Philosophy of Isabelle Stengers by Grant Maxwell (Edinburgh UP)https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book/9781399540636
The Ecstasy of Reproduction by Alberto Castelli (Anthem Press)
The Web of Knowledge: Encyclopedias and Authority in the Digital Age by Giota Alevizou (Polity)
Disrupting Narrative Rhetoric: Experimental Fictionality on Digital Platforms by Stefan Iversen (Ohio State UP)
Natural Lection: Cultures of Evolution by Jonathan Basile (University of Minnesota Press) https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517919986/natural-lection/
Forms of Time, Newton to Austenby Jesse Molesworth (Stanford UP)
Silent Medievalisms: Reimagining the Middle Ages During Film’s Foundational Era edited by Tison Pugh and Angela Jane Weisl (Ohio State UP)
