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Review Highlights
Title: The Boom & The Boom: Historical Rupture and Political Economy in Contemporary British and Chinese Science Fiction by Guangzhao Lyu
Review by: Johannes D. Kaminski
“One of the most remarkable aspects of Lyu’s study is his careful selection of congenial texts, including iconic sf such as Liu Cixin’s and Iain M. Banks’s novels, as well as lesser-known texts, in lively cross-cultural dialogues. Aware of the leap of faith required to consider such texts as complementary units, Lyu compares the coexistence of the Chinese and British sf realms to the eerie situation described in China Miéville’s novel The City & the City (2009).”
Featured in: Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 53
Title: Global China and the Global Game in Africa: China–Africa Engagement through the Lens of Football edited by Jonathan Sullivan, Tobias Ross, Angela Lewis
Review by: Alan Bairner
“This is a thought-provoking collection of essays that deserves to be read not only by people with a specific interest in football in China and Africa but also by anyone who simply wants to learn more about the important relationship between these two parts of the world in an era in which the global order is being reconfigured even as I write.”
Featured in: idrottsforum
Link: https://idrottsforum.org/baiala_sullivanetal260507/
Title: Luke Wadding. A Life: Religion, Politics and Culture, 1588–1657 by Benjamin Hazard.
Review by: Simon Ditchfield
“On finishing Hazard’s painstakingly learned and carefully written study one can well believe that Wadding took refuge in scholarship from the Sturm und Drang of Irish politics and its international implications.”
Featured in: Irish Theological Quarterly
Link: https://doi.org.10.3917/rpsf.155.0161
Title: Reading the French Caribbean by Albert James Arnold
Review by: Gaspard Brunet (IRJS – Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) et Myriam Prévot (CERSA – Université Paris Panthéon-Assas)
“The book offers a highly informative socio-historical approach to these literary works, placing the texts in their contexts and illuminating important elements of Caribbean society, such as gender dynamics and linguistic hierarchies between French and Creole.”
Featured in: New West Indian Guide
Link: NWIG 100-3&4 (2026)
Title: Gesture in French Post-New Wave Cinema by François Giraud
Review by: Douglas Morrey
“Giraud’s book is thoroughly researched and demonstrates excellent knowledge of French film theory and avant-garde film history and practice, and it is scattered throughout with incisive close readings. French syntax occasionally creeps into the English expression, but this is only a very minor complaint about a book that will be of value to any scholar working on this singularly adventurous era of French filmmaking. Indeed, much of the pleasure of reading the book comes from remembering, or reviewing, these films and marvelling at the aesthetic courage and intellectual integrity of this much-lamented generation of filmmakers.”
Featured in: H-France Review Volume 26 (2026)
Link: vol26no15Morrey.pdf
