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Building a Voice

Sound, Surface, Skin
Zeynep Bulut

Goldsmiths Press, 2025

How do we build or make a voice together? Can we imagine the voices we make in the form of a skin, a multi-sensory interface that behaves both as a boundary and as a point of connection? What does such a voice capacitate in times of crises and uncertainties?
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Your Body of Water

Siouxzi Connor

Repeater Books, 2025

Your Body of Water is an interweaving of autofiction with hydro-feminist mythologies, exploring via the emotional landscapes of four rivers and four "tragic feminine characters" (Ophelia, Leda, the Lady of Shalott and Sappho) the author's own real life journey,...
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Flamboyant Fictions

The Failed Art of Passing
Ian Fleishman

Northwestern University Press, 2024

This book posits formal experimentation as an index for evolving expressions of male homosexuality from literary modernism to the German New Wave and the present day. Ian Fleishman exposes a tradition of flamingly failed passing that is itself a surreptitious mode of passing.
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Hand That Touch This Fortune Will

A History and Theory of Hand Reading after Charlotte Wolff
Sam Dolbear

MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE, 2024

Mapping the hand as cosmos as clinic as history as biography, hand reading is a technique suspended between medical and mystical judgement, empirical diagnosis and speculative divination. This book weaves the lives and work of the ‘reader’ and the ‘read’ together in an intricate fabric.
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Burnout

The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat
Hannah Proctor

Verso Books, April 2024

In the struggle for a better world, setbacks are inevitable. Defeat can feel overwhelming at times, but it has to be endured. How then do the people on the front line keep going?
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Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik

A Quarterly of Language, Literature and Culture
Amina ElHalawani
ed. by Michael Butter, Lars Eckstein, Joachim Frenk, Brigitte Georgi-Findlay, Thomas Herbst, Barbara Korte, Günter Leypoldt, Christoph Reinfandt, Anatol Stefanowitsch

De Gruyter, Volume 71, Issue 1, March 2023

Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik. A Quarterly of Language, Literature and Culture. Special Issue: Haunted by Homes; Guest Editor: Amina ElHalawani.
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Never Was

H. Gareth Gavin

Cipher Press, April 2023

Daniel sits on a clifftop in the aftermath of a party at Fin's mansion, looking out over a junky sea. Daniel's not sure why they're there, or who Fin is, even though Fin seems to be somebody famous.
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Camering

Fernand Deligny on Cinema and the Image
Marlon Miguel

LEIDEN University Press, June 2022

Fernand Deligny, ‘a poet and ethologist’, is mostly known for his work with autistic children, and his influence on the revolutions in French post-war psychiatry. Though neither director, scriptwriter, historian of cinema nor a theorist of the image, cinema is constantly called into his social, pedagogical, and clinical experimentations.

La dialettica del Denkraum in Aby Warburg

Clio Nicastro

Palermo: Palermo University Press, 2022

'Denkraum der Besonnenheit’ names the constellations of methods, concept, forms of expression, and personal challenges that distinguish Aby Warburg’s research. It is the space of thinking and for thinking, a condition and a process — its method constantly threatened with the destruction of its confines.

The Science of Character

Human Objecthood and the Ends of Victorian Realism
S. Pearl Brilmyer

Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2022

The Science of Character makes a bold new claim for the power of the literary by showing how Victorian novelists used fiction to theorize how character forms.
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