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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
