Review Highlights

Title: The Weird: A Companion, edited by Carl H. Sederholm, Kristopher Woofter

Review by: Zachary Gillan, Strange Horizons

“This ecumenical approach to the weird definitely infests The Weird: A Companion: There’s an incredible hodgepodge of texts under scrutiny, from movies, novels, and TV shows to black metal, visual art, and, of course, what I would call the most apt form of the weird, the short story.”
“I’m particularly fond of Indigenous scholar Kali Simmons’s reference to the potential of weird fiction as “a suspicious critical method that seeks to unmake hegemonic realities,” 

Featured in: Strange Horizons, The Brackish Pool: Towards a Critical Practice of Reading Weird Fiction, 26 January 2026

Link: Strange Horizons – The Brackish Pool: Towards a Critical Practice of Reading Weird Fiction, 26 January 2026

Title: Moeller van den Bruck Le troisième Reich, by Michel Grunewald

Review by: Joël Mouric

“La traduction de M. Grunewald, très claire et rigoureusement annotée, sera donc utile à tous ceux qu’intéresse la pensée politique, les idées politiques allemandes ou européennes et la généalogie des débats actuels. Cette traduction n’a-t pas seulement une dimension historique, elle présente aussi un intérêt politique.”

Featured in: Questions de communication, Issue 48, 2025, pp. 566-571

Link: Arthur Mœller Van den Bruck, Le Troisième Reich, trad. de l’allemand commenté et édité par M. Grunewald, Berlin, Peter Lang, coll. Civilisations & Histoire, 2024, 471 pages

Title: Estudios de Zoopoética: La Cuestión Animal en la Literatura /Studies in Zoopoetics, edited by Pilar Andrade, José Manuel Correoso, Julia Ori

Review by: María Victoria Arenas Vela, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain

“Estudios de Zoopoética. La Cuestión Animal en la Literatura presents a perspective on this through the prism of ecocriticism, ecofeminism, and zoopoetics, adding new value to re-readings where animals appear. In other words, the work presents interconnections between species as an enriching element of narrative from the perspective of new ecological materialisms.”

Featured in: Animal Studies Journal, 14(2)

Link: doi: https://doi.org/10.14453/asj.1647

Title: Jongler avec les langues et avec les cultures: Dynamiques identitaires des citoyens européens mobiles, by Claire Demesmay

Review by: Bastien Ruaux

“Claire Demesmay dresse une étude documentée sur la question du tandem représentation et identité qui se manifeste dans la pratique langagière et des enjeux culturels. L’originalité de cet ouvrage réside dans ses ancrages disciplinaires où la thématique de la pratique linguistique s’inscrit dans une démarche sociologique et prend en compte une problématique de politique publique européenne.”

Featured in: Les comptes rendus, 2026

Link: https://doi.org/10.4000/15gw0

Title: Grotowski in Iran, by Masoud Najafi Ardabili 

Review by: Zaur Gasimov

“The author analyses the Iranian cultural journals of the time and numerous memoirs by Grotowski’s contemporaries. He describes in detail Grotowski’s itineraries during his trips to Iran and the scienti c and cultural transfer of Grotowski’s theatre model by studying the Persian translations of his writings as well as the people who translated them.”

Featured in: Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, (73), 2025, pp. 166 – 171

Link: Masoud Najafi: Ardabili Grotowski in Iran | BiblioScout

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The reviews featured this month reflect the impact these publications continue to make. Explore the titles that captured reviewers’ attention in November and find some new additions for your shelves. All titles are available to buy on the Peter Lang website in print or as ebooks.

Review Highlights

Title: Construire l’Autre. Regards croisés sur les productions de missionnaires chrétiens en terres lointaines edited by Anne Dalles Maréchal, Marion Robinaud

Review by: Dominique Laperle, Université du Québec à Montréal

Featured in: Laval théologique et philosophique 

Quote: “Cet ouvrage se distingue par sa diversité de perspectives et de terrains d’étude, offrant une analyse riche et nuancée des dynamiques missionnaires dans des contextes variés. La pluralité des approches (historique, sociologique, anthropologique) permet de dépasser une vision simpliste des missions chrétiennes comme instruments de domination ou de civilisation.”

Link: Anne Dalles Maréchal, Marion Robinaud, dir., Cons… – Laval théologique et philosophique – Érudit

Title: Games, Greek and Pluck: Classicism, Masculinity, Elite Education and British Sport, 1850–1914 by Andy Carter

Review by: Hans Bolling, PhD in History, Independent scholar

Featured in: idrottsforum.org 

Quote: “Ultimately, Games, Greek and Pluck: Classicism, Masculinity, Elite Education and British Sport 1850–1914 is an excellent book …his insistence to reject a “siloed” approach and explore the entwinement of athleticism, education and classicism made me a wiser man.”

Link: The role of English public schools and classicism in the development of modern sports | idrottsforum.org

Title: Reflecting in the British World: Essays in Honour of Carl Bridge Edited by Jatinder Mann and Bart Zielinski 

Review by: Patrick Coleman 

Featured in: New Zealand Journal of History Volume 59, Number 2 

Quote: “The essays serve as a testament to Carl Bridge’s scholarly legacy, showing how the concept he helped pioneer has evolved into a robust field of historical inquiry that continues to generate meaningful research.”

Link: Project MUSE – <i>Reflecting on the British World: Essays in Honour of Carl Bridge</i> ed. by Jatinder Mann and Bart Zielinski (review) 

Title: Communication and Sport by Francisco García Marcos, Pablo García Mateo

Review by: Mateusz Sobiech, Maria Curie Skłodowska University, Poland 

Featured in: idrottsforum.org 

Quote: “Communication and Sport” is a solid, innovative publication that enriches academic discourse on communication by treating sport as a dynamic system of signs.”

Link: An ambitious interdisciplinary attempt and a solid, innovative publication | idrottsforum.org

Title: Polish Highlanders in Carpathian Bukovina: A Sociolinguistic and Lexical Study by Helena Krasowska 

Review by: Artur Tworek 

Featured in: Linguistische Treffen in Wrocław, Vol. 27, 2025 

Quote: “Both the sociolinguistic perspective and the collected reflections on the functional use of the Polish language in the communication space of contemporary Bukovina villages, as well as the rich lexical material examined, make Krasowska’s monograph a work of extremely high documentary and cognitive value.”

Link: Linguistische Treffen in Wrocław – issue

Title: Une question « chaude » : Histoire de l’éducation sexuelle à l’école (France, XXe-XXIe siècle)

Review by: Alain Boissinot 

Featured in: Aef Info  

Quote: “Le livre d’Yves Verneuil ne pouvait paraître à un meilleur moment. Pour retracer lhistoire du développement dune éducation sexuelle à l’école, l’auteur réunit un ensemble exceptionnel de documents et de témoignages qui lui permettent de revisiter un siècle d’histoire, des débuts du XXe siècle à nos jours. “

Link: Éducation sexuelle : comment l’ouvrage “Une question chaude” d’Y. Verneuil… 

Title: Big Data et influence Big Data et influence: Stratégies, design, éthique et régulation edited by Camila Pérez Lagos, Mehdi Ghassemi, Rania Aoun

Review by: Cem Savaş 

 Featured in: Hermès: La Revue 

Quote: “En réunissant des contributions issues de champs disciplinaires variés, allant des sciences de l’information et de la communication à la philosophie, en passant par la science politique, le design et l’économie, l’ouvrage propose une analyse critique, approfondie et multidimensionnelle du Big Data en tant qu’instrument d’influence.”

Link: Le Temps des incommunications – Revue Hermès – Cognition – Communication – Politique 

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These reviews are so important to our authors and are a testament to their hard work and dedicated research. You can find all of these titles on the Peter Lang website, and read the full reviews through the links below. Perhaps find a great addition to your reading list! All titles are available in print or as an ebook.

Review Highlights  

Title: The Limerick Boycott in Context edited by Seán William Gannon and Natalie Wynn 

Review by: Tony Kushner
University of Southampton

“it provides a superb example for scholars of both the modern Jewish experience and the workings of antisemitism and wider Jewish/nonJewish relations.”

Featured in: Irish Theological Quarterly, Vol 90, Issue 4

Link: Book Review: The Limerick Boycott in Context – Tony Kushner, 2025

Title: Baltic Human-Animal Histories: Relations, Trading, and Representations edited by Linda Kaljundi, Anu Mänd, Ulrike Plath & Kadri Tüü

Review by: Ingvar Svanberg
Uppsala

“there are many essays, offering plenty of information for anyone who wants to learn more about the relationship between humans and animals in the Baltic lands during the Middle Ages and early modern times.”

Featured in: Ethnologia Scandinavica, Vol 55

Link: Ethnologia Scandinavica 2025 | Kungl. Gustav Adolfs Akademien för svensk folkkultur

Title: Kulturpessimismus / Le pessimisme culturel: Analysen & Akteure / Analyses & Acteurs edited by Françoise Lartillot and Uwe Puschner

Review by: Moritz Maurer
University of Vienna

“This insightful overview will also be of interest to scholars of religion, not least because of the role of religious thought in the genesis of cultural pessimism.”

Featured in: Religious Studies Review, Vol 51, No.2

Link: www.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/rsr.17807

Title: Crises Then as Now: Marshall McLuhan, with Urbanist Jaqueline Tyrwhitt and Artist Gyorgy Kepes by Jaqueline McLeod Rogers

Review by: Ryan McCullough
West Liberty University 

“McLeod Rogers, Shoshkes, and Terranova offer a comprehensive overview of scholarly connections that occurred more than 50 years ago. This overview demonstrates that we must continue to build on those connections through research and practice.”

Featured in: Communication Research Trends, Vol 44, No.3

Link: Communication Research Trends | Vol 44 | No. 3

Title: Chercheurs d’or noir : une histoire de la recherche pétrolière française au XXe siècle by Radouan Andrea Mounecif

Review by: Benoît Doessant 

“Radouan Mounecif’s study makes it possible to understand and critically evaluate the myth of the oil prospectors for France (as it existed long before in the United States), which had developed with the propaganda around the Saharan epic.”

Featured in: Technology and Culture, Vol 66, No.4 

Link: www.muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/971333

Title: Rhetoric, Religion, and Tragic Violence: Sacred Succor and Rancor edited by Christopher Oldenburg and Adrienne Hacker Daniels

Review by: David Frank
University of Oregon

“Oldenburg and Hacker Daniels’s insight into the rancor and succor that result from religious rhetoric, anchored in the notion of pharmakon, is an advance in the field.”

Featured in: Critical Studies in Media Communication 

Link: https://doi.org/10.1080/15295036.2025.2558968 

Title: Roads to and from Democracy: Studies in Polish Politics, 1980–2020 by Krzysztof Jasiewicz

Review by: Meng Yang

“The book’s greatest strength lies in its ability to trace the intersections of Polish history and contemporary politics, offering a rich interpretation of Poland’s path through the lens of nationhood, culture and religion.”

Featured in: EUROPE-ASIA STUDIES, Vol 77, No. 8

Link: https://doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2025.2552079 

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For our authors, these reviews offer important validation of their dedicated research and effort. It serves as a meaningful reward and often provides the inspiration needed for their next project.

See what readers are saying about Peter Lang titles and perhaps find an important addition for your own reading list.

We offer our congratulations to all our reviewed authors and thanks to those who take the time to write these reviews.

Review Highlights  

Title: Streaming the Formula 1 Rivalry. Sport and the Media in the Platform Age
by Raymond Boyle, Richard Haynes

Review by: Hans Erik Næss,
Department of Leadership and Organization, Kristiania University of Applied Sciences, Norway

 “the book’s rich empirical content and engaging narrative about the inner workings of F1 and the dynamics of global entertainment businesses make it essential reading for anyone interested in the powerful influence that global media and sport can exert to highlight their significance.”

Featured in: Revving Up the Future: Unveiling F1’s Role in Shaping Global Media Dynamics, idrottsforum.org, Nordic Sport Science Forum, from Malmö University

Link: Revving Up the Future: Unveiling F1’s Role in Shaping Global Media Dynamics | idrottsforum.org
 

Title: A Stab in the Ear. Poetics of Sound in Futurism and Dadaism
by Beata Sniecikowska

Review by: Nadzieja Bąkowska

“The creation of local universities in every Cuban municipality allowed Cuba to reach enrolment rates of 40 to 66 per cent between 2005 and 2010 (MES 2019). These impressive figures involved a huge reshaping of the Cuban university landscape – for instance, creating new campuses, democratising access and diversifying the sociodemographic background of teachers and students. Rosi Smith provides one of the very few serious studies of this major transformation. The book is a very valuable contribution to this scarcely studied topic.”

Featured in: International Yearbook of Futurism Studies, Volume 14 2024

Link: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783689240370-015

Title: Deepening Participation. The impact of Cuba’s local university centres
by Rosi Smith

Review by: Alexander Cordoves Danish School of Education, Aarhus University

 “Due to the comparative perspective employed by the author, this book is not only addressing specialists in Polish literature. It is an innovative study on the borderlines between literary history and theory, poetics, philosophy of language and comparative literature. It is more than gratifying to see that Śniecikowska’s structuralist-comparativist examination of Futurism from a variety of angles has found a well-deserved translation by Grzegorz Czemiel.”

Featured in: Learning and Teaching, Volume 18, Issue 2, Summer 2025: 81–95

Link: https://doi.org/10.3167/latiss.2025.180205

Title: Orthodoxy in Two Manifestations? The Conflict in Ukraine as Expression of a Fault Line in World Orthodoxy
Edited by Thomas Bremer, Alfons Brüning, Nadieszda Kizenko

Review by: Daniel Benga, University of Bucharest, Romania

 “Orthodoxy in Two Manifestations? opens up many perspectives on and possibilities for overcoming the current internal ecclesiastical conflict in Ukraine. I strongly recommend it to those who wish for an objective view on some issues that have troubled Orthodoxy for over a hundred years and that remain an ongoing challenge for the Orthodox Churches. T he work is lively, fresh, and open, and the creativity of the authors is a source of inspiration not only for scholars and theological professors, but also for those involved in decision- making at the ecclesial level.”

Featured in: Journal of Orthodox Christian Studies, Volume 7, Numbers 1-2, 2024, pp. 238-240

Link: https://doi.org/10.1353/joc.2024.a968647

Title: Opera aperta. Italian Electronic Literature from the 1960s to the Present
by Emanuela Patti 

Review by: Pablo a Marca, Brown University

 “In conclusion, Patti’s Opera Aperta. Electronic Literature from the 1960s to the Present provides a comprehensive analysis of Italian literature from the neo-avantgarde movements until the recent times. She offers a theoretical framework under which one can study the emergence of new modes of production and of studying these works. Her focus on the impact such literature has on culture and society, particularly in its political vein, is extremely relevant. Her book, therefore, is an essential study, together with Roberta Iadevaia’s Per una storia della letteratura elettronica italiana (Mimesis, 2021), of the role of e-literature within Italy and Italian artists, one that will surely need to be complemented by newer studies in the years to follow.”

Featured in: Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift, Volume 75, Issue 4 (2025), pp. 463 – 500

Link: https://grm.winter-verlag.de/article/GRM/2025/4/9

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Review Highlights

Title: Atlantic Bound: Writing Afro-Conscious Diasporic Consciousness in the Works of Leonora Miano and Fatou Diome by Charlotte G. Mackay   

Review by: Antonia Wimbush, University of Melbourne 

“the book is a novel, convincing and well-argued study of two important Afro-descendant female authors writing in French. It will be essential reading for students and scholars of Francophone African literature, gender studies, and diasporic identity”

Featured in: Australian Journal of French Studies, Volume 62, Number 3-4, pp. 379-80 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3828/AJFS.2025.31 

Title: Games, Greek and Pluck: Classicism, Masculinity, Elite Education and British Sport, 1850–1914 by Andy Carter   

Review by: Malcolm Tozer

Featured in: History of Education Journal of the History of Education Society, pp. 1-3 

“The book’s thesis is convincingly argued, thus making it a most valuable addition to the library on the histories of sport, education and culture of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The text is well written and attractively presented; there is a host of new facts and anecdotes to please future researchers” 

Link: https://doi.org/10.1080/0046760X.2025.2538020 

Title: Revisiting the British World: New Voices and Perspectives edited by Jatinder Mann and Iain Johnston-White 

Review by: Steven Loveridge

Featured in: Journal of New Zealand Studies, Issue NS39, pp. 121-22 

“A concluding chapter by Jatinder Mann and Iain Johnston-White reviews the chapters’ themes and findings to advance an argument of why the British World should be revisited. This reasserts the position that British World scholarship remains a source of valuable insight for an array of historical topics and continues to be relevant in facilitating understanding of our present world and concerns.”

Link: https://doi.org/10.26686/jnzs.iNS39.9903

Title: Gender Defenders of the Sport Binary: Mediating Discourses of Difference Against Intersex and Transgender Female Athletes by Travis R. Bell and Anne C. Osborne 

Review by: Kaja Poteko, University of Ljubljana

Featured in: International Journal of Sport Communication, Volume 18, Issue 3, pp. 400-01 

“Gender Defenders of the Sport Binary is a compelling and insightful contribution situated within ongoing sociological, cultural, communication, and other related debates on policing gender in sport […] while also stimulating further reflection on how to transform and reimagine it.”

Link: https://doi.org/10.1123/ijsc.2025-0089 

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Review Highlights

Title: Trade Unions in the European Union: Picking Up the Pieces of the Neoliberal Challenge edited by Jeremy Waddington, Torsten Müller, and Kurt Vandaele

Review by: Stefano Gasparri, UWE Bristol Business School

“no other books about this topic can match its scope and, plausibly, size and length. A key strength of the book is its structure, which allows a deeper understanding of national cases by making comparison between chapters easier.” 

Featured in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Cornell University, Volume 78, Issue 4 (2025), pp. 740–742

Link: https://doi.org/10.1177/00197939241304318

Title: More Than Alive: The Dead, Orthodoxy, and Remembrance in Post-Soviet Russia by Zuzanna Bogumił & Tatiana Voronina 

Review by: Ela Rossmiller, Wilson College

“Overall, the book is compelling. The authors’ encyclopaedic knowledge, thick descriptions, in-depth analysis and vivid photographs transport the reader through an imaginary walking tour of each site.”

Featured in: Europe-Asia Studies, Taylor & Francis, Volume 77, Issue 4 (2025), pp. 664-66

Link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09668136.2025.2489318 

Title: The Scandinavian Invasion: Nordic Noir and Beyond edited by Richard McCulloch and William Proctor

Review by: Anne Marit Risum Waade, Aarhus University, Denmark

Featured in: Critical Studies in Television: The International Journal of Television Studies, Volume 20, Issue 2 (2025), pp. 276–278

Link: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/17496020251325377  

Title: Picturing the Reader: Reading and Representation in the Long Nineteenth Century edited by Beth Palmer and Amelia Yeates 

Review by: Julia Thomas, Cardiff University 

“Picturing the Reader taps into a fascination with representing readers and reading that pervaded literature and the visual arts in the nineteenth century and has been recovered in recent criticism. Where this collection makes its mark is in its focus on analysing these representations through the lens of a dialogue between word and image that crossed textual and visual arenas. […] It is laudable that the publisher Peter Lang has reproduced over 30 images, some of which are in colour.” 

Featured in: Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 30, Issue 1 (2025), pp. 132–34

Link: https://academic.oup.com/jvc/article-abstract/30/1/132/8116944?redirectedFrom=fulltext  

Title: Histories of Children’s Television Around the World edited by Yuval Gozansky 

Review by: Emma Horsley-Heather, SOAS University of London

“Histories of Children’s Television Around the World succeeds in bringing together differing global perspectives and television developments and is an important addition to the field of children’s television and media research. The nature of each standalone chapter allows the reader just to hone in on material relevant to their interest or to contrast and compare the developments of particular countries side by side.” 

Featured in: Critical Studies in Television: The International Journal of Television Studies, Volume 20, Issue 2 (2025), pp. 269-71

Link: https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/csta/20/2  

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Review Highlights

Title: Transforming and Understanding: An Introduction to Cultural-Historical Activity Theory by Yannick Lémonie

Review by: Clay Spinuzzi

“this is a valuable book for those thinking through CHAT and especially for those interested in interventionist approaches.”

Featured in: Blogspot Review

Link: https://spinuzzi.blogspot.com/2025/06/reading-transforming-and-understanding.html?m=1  

Title: “It’s so queer!”: Les masculinités dans les films de Vincente Minnelli et de Jacques Demy by Sabrina Bouarour

Review by: Alistair Fox, University of Otago 

“The strengths of this book are obvious: it is very thoroughly researched, as its extensive bibliography attests, and it provides useful contextual information, such as the evolution of perspectives on gender and sexuality as they developed in the United States and France, respectively, and the emergence of alternative masculinities in both countries.”

Featured in: H-France Review, Volume 25, Issue 43 (2025), pp. 1-4

Link: https://h-france.net/vol25reviews/vol25_no43_Fox.pdf  

Title: Voices of Pain, Cries of Silence: Francophone Jewish Poetry of the Shoah, 1939-2008 by Gary D. Mole

Review by: Nanar Khamo, Pepperdine University, CA

“Mole’s monograph is essential reading for scholars and educators in Holocaust literature and history, offering valuable poetry and insightful analysis to enrich course materials and deepen the understanding of this poignant subject matter.” 

Featured in: The French Review, Volume 98, Issue 3 (2025) pp. 141-42

Link: https://doi.org/10.1353/tfr.2025.a952733 

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Review Highlights

Title: Philosophy, Death and Education by Peter Roberts, R. Scott Webster and John Quay

Review by: René V. Arcilla, New York University  

“I very much support the project of Philosophy, Death and Education. Roberts, Webster, and Quay have convinced me that we should and can be educated more profoundly in the meaning of our mortality.”

Featured in: Studies in Philosophy and Education, Volume 44 (2025), pp. 233-37 

Link: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11217-025-09984-5 

Title: The Paradox of Becoming: Pentecostalicity, Planetarity, and Africanity by Chammah J. Kaunda

Review by: Diana Lunkwitz, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

“In The Paradox of Becoming, Kaunda has brought his preceding research into a theoretical focus. He provides an engaging new philosophical–theological approach. Thanks to this detailed analysis that goes beyond an indigenization of Muntu, future generations in the humanities will receive forward-looking and thought-provoking stimuli to reconceptualize the human and all life in the planetary age.”

Featured in: PentecoStudies: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Research on the Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements, Volume 23, Issue 1 (2024) Special Issue: Pentecostalism and Gender, pp. 94-96 

Link: https://doi.org/10.1558/pent.33467 

Title: Timeline and Personification in the Merchant of Venice: Passover, Easter and the Case of the Returning Ships by Peter D. Usher  

Review by: Dr Clifford Cunningham, University of Southern Queensland 

“Usher is an expert at elucidating complexities in the works of Shakespeare. This book is superbly written and logically structured, as evident by the tables of data he includes. His methodology is precise, which enables anyone (whether a Shakespeare scholar or not) to understand his thesis here.” 

Featured in: JAHH, Volume 28, Issue 1 (2025), pp. 312-314 

Link: https://doi.org/10.3724/SP.J.140-2807.2025.01.28 

Title: The Observable: Heisenberg’s Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics by Patrick Aidan Heelan

Review by: Paul Downes, Dublin City University

“Heelan’s book serves as an inspiring and highly insightful invitation to shed the fabric of taken for granted realities as part of an ontological truth quest for QM, as a step beyond the Copenhagen interpretation of complementarity between quantum waves and particles, towards fulfilment of a lost vision of Heisenberg.” 

Featured in: AI & Society, Volume 38 (2023), pp. 2363-67 

Link: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-021-01157-5  

Title: Raum als berufspädagogische Dimension: Empirische Befunde und theoretische Überlegungen zu Interdependenzen zwischen Orten und Berufsbildungssystemen by Marco Hjelm-Madsen

Review by: Prof Dr Birgit Ziegler, Technische Universität Darmstadt

“Der Autor des vorliegenden Buches stellt daher die etwas provokante Frage, ob Berufspädagogik „Raum könne“ (S. 3)), um sich dann selbst auf den Weg zu machen, die Dimension Raum für den berufspädagogischen Diskurs zu erschließen. Seine Untersuchung charakterisiert Hjelm-Madsen als „raumbezogene Grundlagenforschung“ mit „experimentellem Charakter” (S. 30).”

Featured in: ZBW, Volume 120, Issue 4 (2024), pp. 708-11 

Link: https://biblioscout.net/journal/zbw/120/4 

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Review Highlights

Title: Pre-Raphaelite Sisters: Art, Poetry and Female Agency in Victorian Britain edited by Glenda Youde & Robert Wilkes 

Review by: Ashley Miller, Albion College

“Pre-Raphaelite Sisters makes a valuable contribution to the field of Pre-Raphaelite studies. Wilkes writes that the volume aspires to be “a starting point for new research and fresh perspectives” on the lives and works of several women of the Pre-Raphaelite movement (15).”

Featured in: Victorian Studies, Volume 66, Issue 4 (2024), pp. 663-64

Link: https://doi.org/10.2979/vic.00198

Title: Aspects of Islamic Radicalization in the Balkans After the Fall of Communism edited by Mihai Dragnea, Joseph Fitsanakis, Darko Trifunovic, John M. Nomikos, Vasko Stamevski and Adriana Cupcea  

Review by: Muhammad Asad Latif, Islamia University Bahawalpur, Pakistan

“this edited collection provides an invaluable addition to the body of knowledge on political Islam, radicalization, post-communist transitions, and the political choices that have molded the Balkan region’s current environment.”

Featured in: Journal of Religion in Europe, Volume 17, Issue 4 (2024), pp. 501-03 

Link: https://doi.org/10.1163/18748929-bja10114 

Title: Entre mélancolie et connaissance: Réception créatrice de Proust en Italie by Roberta Capotorti

Review by: Caterina Palmisano, Università di Siena 

“L’enquête ainsi menée nous restitue un tableau de la réception italienne de Proust situé entre la mélancolie due à l’impossible coïncidence entre vie et littérature et la connaissance se dégageant de l’aspect méta-romanesque de l’œuvre proustienne qui permet de concevoir et de confronter de nouveaux modèles épistémologiques.” 

Featured in: Acta fabula Revue des parutions, Volume 26, Issue 4 (2025)

Link: https://doi.org/10.58282/acta.19558

Title: Formative Feasting: Practices and Virtue Ethics in Deuteronomy’s Tithe Meal and the Corinthian Lord’s Supper by Michael J. Rhodes

Review by: Gregory Soderberg, BibleMesh Institute, New York

“In this study, Rhodes surveys the Deuteronomic tithe meals of Deuteronomy 14 and the eucharist described in 1 Corinthians 11 from the perspective of ‘formative practices’. This is a richly nuanced and generous treatment that should be of interest to a wide range of scholars, ministry leaders, and interested laypeople.” 

Featured in: Evangelical Quarterly: An International Review of Bible and Theology, Volume 95, Issue 2 (2024), pp. 174-76 

Link: https://doi.org/10.1163/27725472-09502009

Title: The Boom & The Boom: Historical Rupture and Political Economy in Contemporary British and Chinese Science Fiction by Lyu Guangzhao

Review by: Mengmeng Zhu

“Lyu Guangzhao’s The Boom & The Boom is a groundbreaking exploration of the connections between two mostly contemporaneous booms in British and Chinese sf. […] This is not simply an observation of a historical curiosity; rather, Lyu’s analysis of this convergence provides profound insight into how both booms can be understood as responses to contemporary political and economic shifts— Thatcherism in the United Kingdom and Deng Xiaoping’s reforms in China.”

Featured in: Extrapolation, Volume 66, Issue 1 (2025), pp. 118-20

Link: https://doi.org/10.3828/extr.2025.7 

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Congratulations to all our authors and thank you to those who took the time to review them.

Review Highlights

Title: Nurturing the wellbeing of students in difficulty: The legacy of Paul Cooper edited by Carmel Cefai 

Review by: Tristan Middleton

“The respect and affection for Paul Cooper is clearly communicated through the chapters of this eclectic and wide-ranging book, and Cooper’s presence brings together the drive for a more sympathetic learning experience for children and young people who are marginalised in the education system. Written for an international audience, this book will be of particular interest to students and scholars of inclusive education and the development of policy and practice for learners who are marginalised as a result of social, emotional and mental health difficulties.”

Featured in: The International Journal of Nurture in Education, Volume 10 (2024), pp.101-02 

Link: https://www.nurtureuk.org/journal/volume-10/  

Title: Tradizioni del discorso sulla lingua nella stampa periodica italiana dal Settecento a oggi edited by Raphael Merida, Fabio Ruggiano and Sabine Schwarze 

Review by: Luisa di Valvasone 

“il volume offre una panoramica accurata e approfondita, e permette di comprendere, seguendo la linea del tempo, come il commento sulla lingua nella stampa periodica italiana sia stato non solo un riflesso, ma anche un motore delle dinamiche culturali e sociali italiane dal settecento fino ai giorni nostri.”  

Featured in: La Rassegna della Letteratura Italiana, Volume 128, Issue 2 (2024), pp.492-93 

Link: https://www.lelettere.it/libro/24010-24-2

Title: The Ecological Vision of J.M.G. Le Clézio by Bronwen Martin

Review by: Josephine Goldman, University of Sydney

“Martin explores four texts by Le Clézio in this book, three of which were published in the twenty-first century—‘Nos vies d’araignées’ (2011), Bitna, sous le ciel de Séoul (2018), and Alma (2017)—along Le Clézio’s 1971 essay ‘Haï’. Martin focuses on the author’s critiques of anthropocentrism through his exploration of the human–animal relation in connection with Gilles Deleuze’s concept of ‘becoming-animal’. She also examines Le Clézio’s melding of the poetic and socio-political throughout his writing, touching on synergies with world philosophies including shamanism, Zen Buddhism, and créolité and highlighting its close links with the literature of Patrick Chamoiseau and Édouard Glissant” 

Featured in: The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies, Volume 85 (2025), pp. 67 

Link: https://www.doi.org/10.1163/22224297-08501034  

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