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fr Welcome to the first Reviews Roundup of 2026! We had a super year for publishing in 2025, and are looking forward to new research and fresh insights yet to come, as well as many more amazing reviews on our titles.
We extend our congratulations to the authors who have dedicated time and commitment to their work, and thanks to the reviewers who took the time to leave thoughtful feedback.
You can read the full reviews through the links below, and stock up your bookshelf with these titles.
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
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
Inspired by BBC Radio’s “Desert Island Discs,” the Peter Lang Group presents ‘Peak Reads & Playlists’.
Join us on a journey to the mountain peaks near our Lausanne headquarters where we speak with our esteemed series editors.
In this interview format, our guests share the books, music, and food that would keep them company if they were whisked away alone to this beautiful mountain setting. They’ll explore the reasons behind their choices, revealing the influence each has had on their lives. Get a glimpse into the hearts and minds of the Peter Lang community.
Name: Dr. Irene Maria F. Blayer
Job Title: Full Professor
Series: Interdisciplinary Studies in Diasporas
Books
> Tell us, which fiction and/or non-fiction books would be on your list?
I will weave the question through three books that have quietly, yet decisively, left an indelible mark: the inner weather of a solitary self in Pessoa’s Book of Disquiet; the drift and disorientation of an uprooted circle in Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises; and the urban chorus that hums through Cela’s The Hive. Together, they open conversations about belonging, language, everyday labour, and the inventive forms literature forges to hold a fractured modern society. These readings bind inner life to the social fabric and treat form as an ethical choice, aligning with my ongoing preoccupation with home and diasporic belonging.
Fernando Pessoa, Livro do Desassossego (The Book of Disquiet), a masterclass in voice and self-division that sharpens attention to tone, aphorism, and the porous border between author and persona, asking what ‘home’ means when identity is multiple. Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises., a landmark portrait of the “Lost Generation,” where communal drift, ritual and claims of authenticity collide with modern decadence, unrequited love, desire, exile and aimlessness; a counterpoint to Pessoa’s inward gaze. Camilo José Cela, La colmena (The Hive), a mosaic of micro-scenes that builds a collective self-portrait; contingency―who meets whom, where, and when― powers meaning, and fragmentation mirrors a society frayed yet interdependent.
Music
> The mountain ranges have spectacular acoustics. Which 5 MUSICAL RECORDINGS would you take to enjoy whilst up on the summit and why?
It is never easy to confine a lifetime of listening to a few tracks, but given the space and the opportunity, I would let Pressler’s Chopin Nocturne and Pires’s Clair de lune hush the dawn, then open the day with Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and Grieg’s Peer Gynt in bright, wind-swept colour. As shadows lengthen, Miles Davis’s Blue in Green invites quiet reflection, before Aznavour’s La bohème warms the twilight with memory and longing. Finally, Louis Armstrong’s What a Wonderful World sends us down the mountain with a simple, grateful blessing.
Food
> We couldn’t let our community feed their souls but not their bodies, so which FOOD DISH would you choose to take with you on the mountain retreat?
Some chocolate would suffice, my enduring favourite, inviting slow savouring; nothing that competes, only complements.
Thank you to Dr Irene Maria F. Blayer for joining us up the mountain!
Discover the series here – Interdisciplinary Studies in Diasporas
Inspired by BBC Radio’s “Desert Island Discs,” the Peter Lang Group presents ‘Peak Reads & Playlists’.
Join us on a journey to the mountain peaks near our Lausanne headquarters where we speak with our esteemed series editors.
In this interview format, our guests share the books, music, and food that would keep them company if they were whisked away alone to this beautiful mountain setting. They’ll explore the reasons behind their choices, revealing the influence each has had on their lives. Get a glimpse into the hearts and minds of the Peter Lang community.
Name: Dr Valentina Bold
Job Title: Series Editor
Series: Studies in the History and Culture of Scotland
Books
> Which FICTION title would take the coveted first spot on your list?
James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824) is the one fiction title that surprises me on each reading. It is original and startlingly innovative: as relevant today as it was when it was written. The narrators are unreliable and might be insane; characters might not exist (hardly any are likeable); religious values are distorted and destructive. Justified Sinner is set in a world where the natural and supernatural are a shifting continuum, where present and past co-exist. No one can be trusted, least of all the author.
> If you were offered the chance to take a NON-FICTION title, which would you choose?
Jen Stout’s Night Train to Odesa (2024) gripped me from the first page to the last. It is a personal, direct and heartfelt account of conflict and its impact, particularly on women. Through a journalist’s clear vision, this is perceptive, insightful, compassionate writing, from a Shetlander’s perspective, focussed on Ukraine.
> We’re feeling generous so we’ll allow you one more book, your choice of FICTION or NON-FICTION – which one makes the list?
This one has to be poetry: to feed the soul as well as the mind. I would like the ‘O Choille gu Bearradh / From Wood to Ridge’, the Collected Poems of Somhairle MacGill-Eain / Sorley MacLean (1911 – 1996) edited by Christopher Whyte. There is a wealth of experience here that goes beyond the personal, into the political, natural and imaginative, from the Gàidhealtachd into Europe, with consummate ease, anchored in tradition, exploring with imagination and grace.
Music
> The mountain ranges have spectacular acoustics. Which 5 MUSICAL RECORDINGS would you take to enjoy whilst up on the summit and why?
- The McCalmans, ‘The Ettrick Shepherd’
Beautiful settings of James Hogg’s poetry and songs: varied, haunting and entertaining.
2. Sheena Wellington, ‘Hamely Fare’
Great selection of Scottish tradition from one of our finest, and most influential, singers: powerful, important and compassionate.
3. Karine Polwart, ‘This is Karine Polwart’
Fifty songs from a wonderful singer, which would help me remember Scotland in all its diverse moods.
4. Emily Smith, ‘This is Emily Smith’
All three women singers in my list are song-writers as well as outstanding performers; this selection is remarkable for its stylistic range as well as Smith’s superb delivery.
5. Nicola Benedetti, ‘This is Nicola Benedetti’
For when I need instrumental space to contemplate, and to celebrate, there would be nothing better than violinist extraordinaire, in this wide-ranging collection.
Food
> We couldn’t let our community feed their souls but not their bodies, so which FOOD DISH would you choose to take with you on the mountain retreat?
Sweet soul food by choice: shortbread, following a traditional recipe such as these.
Thank you to Dr Valentina Bold for joining us up the mountain!
Discover the series here – Studies in the History and Culture of Scotland
Check out some of our reviews from August! We’re so proud to share our titles and receive such positive feedback from respected academics across the world. Congratulations to all our authors. You can find the full reviews linked below, as well as purchase the titles on our website.
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
Don’t miss our reviews from July! We’re so pleased to have received such amazing feedback on our titles. Congratulations to all our authors and thank you to those who took the time to review them. You can read the pieces through the links below, as well as find copies available to purchase or download through the links to our website.
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
Peter Lang is delighted to announce the results of the 2025 Peter Lang Emerging Scholars Competition in Queer Studies:
Winner in English
J. Javier Torres-Fernández
Narratives and Metaphors of HIV/AIDS in Contemporary Irish Theatre and Performance:
Exploring Stories of Illness and Healing
to be published in Reimagining Ireland
Winner in German Studies
Emily Stokes
Touching Queer Materiality:
Murmurs of Affect, Identity, and Memory in Queer Objects and Counter-Objects of the German Democratic Republic, 1979–1990
to be published in German Visual Culture
Winner in Classics
Yentl Sophia Love
Queering Bacchus in Republican and Early Imperial Literature
to be published in Queering Paradigms
Honourable Mentions
Steph Berens
On Repair and Worldmaking:
Literary Reworkings of Cultural Tropes in Contemporary North American Transgender Fiction
Igor Facchini
Queering Interpreting Studies:
Gender-Fair and Non-Binary Language in Conference Interpreting
to be published in New Trends in Translation Studies
Winners of the prize receive a Gold Open Access contract for publication. Many congratulations to our winners and honourable mentions! Thank you to our distinguished editorial boards and to all those who took part in the competition.
The Peter Lang Emerging Scholars Competition is an annual competition in selected fields. Please check back here for the announcement for next year’s competition.
For more information, please contact Dr Laurel Plapp (l.plapp@peterlang.com) or Dr Phil Dunshea (p.dunshea@peterlang.com).
We’re always so pleased to receive positive feedback on our titles, a tribute to the time and effort invested by our successful authors. Here are a selection of reviews we received in June, and you can read the full pieces through the links below, as well as find our whole catalogue on our website.
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
We’re thrilled to have received these great reviews from respected academics in renowned journals! Make sure to read the full reviews through the links below, and we hope you’ll check out these titles and more on our website.
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
We’re so proud to have received these reviews in April and are always thrilled to read such positive feedback on our titles. Congratulations to our authors who have invested so much time and effort into their work. You can read the full reviews through the links below as well as find the titles on our website. We hope these reviews will inspire you to explore our full catalogues.
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
Don’t miss our reviews from March! We’re so proud to have received such positive feedback on our titles. You can read the full reviews through the links below, as well as find all our books available to purchase or download on our website.
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