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  • Recent Books of Interest
Anderton, Joseph. Beckett’s Creatures: Art of Failure After the Holocaust. New York: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2016. Pp. 264. $72.00 (cloth).
Bao, Weihong. Fiery Cinema: The Emergence of an Affective Medium in China, 1915–1945. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015. Pp. 488. $105.00 (cloth).
Boccioni, Umberto. Futurist Painting Sculpture (Plastic Dynamism). Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2016. Pp. 304. $49.00 (paper).
Bru, Sascha, Ben de Bruyn, and Michel Delville. Literature Now: Key Terms and Methods for Literary History. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016. Pp. 320. $130.00 (cloth).
Cardon, Lauren S. Fashion and Fiction: Self-Transformation in Twentieth-Century American Literature. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016. Pp. 232. $75.00 (cloth).
Crawford, Lucas. Transgender Architectonics: The Shape of Change in Modernist Space. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2015. Pp. 192. $104.95 (cloth).
DeLue, Rachael Z. Arthur Dove: Always Connect. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2016. Pp. 384. $45.00 (cloth).
Denton, Kirk A. The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. Pp. 488. $45.00 (paper).
Elcott, Noam M. Artificial Darkness: An Obscure History of Modern Art and Media. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2016. Pp. 312. $45.00 (cloth).
Epstein, Andrew. Attention Equals Life: The Pursuit of the Everyday in Contemporary Poetry and Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. 384. $65.00 (cloth).
Garrett, Leah. Young Lions: How Jewish Authors Reinvented the American War Novel. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2015. Pp. 288. $99.95 (cloth).
Geddes, Jennifer L. Kafka’s Ethics of Interpretation: Between Tyranny and Despair. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2016. Pp. 165. $99.95 (cloth).
Hentea, Marius. Tata Dada: The Real Life and Celestial Adventures of Tristan Tzara. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2014. Pp. 368. $35.95 (paper).
Hicok, Bethany. Elizabeth Bishop’s Brazil. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016. Pp. 192. $59.50 (cloth).
Johnson, Julian. Out of Time: Music and the Making of Modernity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. 400. $39.95 (cloth).
Jolles, Adam. The Curatorial Avant-Garde: Surrealism and Exhibition Practice in France, 1925–1941. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2013. Pp. 288. $34.95 (paper).
Jones, Clara. Virginia Woolf: Ambivalent Activist. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016. Pp. 272. $83.00 (cloth).
Kelly, Martha M.F. Unorthodox Beauty: Russian Modernism and Its New Religious Aesthetic. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2016. Pp. 285. $120.00 (cloth).
Kunichika, Michael. “Our Native Antiquity”: Archeology and Aesthetics in the Culture of Russian Modernism. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2015. Pp. 344. $75.00 (cloth).
Lackey, Michael. The American Biographical Novel. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. Pp. 278. $120.00 (cloth).
Levine, Neil. The Urbanism of Frank Lloyd Wright. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. Pp. 464. $65.00 (cloth). [End Page 709]
Lispector, Claire. The Complete Stories. Trans. Katrina Dodson. Ed. Benjamin Moser. New York: New Directions, 2015. Pp. 640. $28.95 (cloth).
Monk, Nicholas. True and Living Prophet of Destruction: Cormac McCarthy and Modernity. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2016. Pp. 272. $65.00 (cloth).
Murphy, Libby. The Art of Survival: France and the Great War Picaresque. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016. Pp. 304. $40.00 (cloth).
O’Hara, Daniel T. Virginia Woolf and the Modern Sublime: The Invisible Tribunal. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pp. 123. $67.50 (cloth).
Price, Rachel. The Object of the Atlantic: Concrete Aesthetics in Cuba, Brazil, and Spain, 1868–1968. Ed. Ed Dimendberg. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2014. Pp. 280. $45.00 (paper).
Rabaté, Jean-Michel. Think, Pig!: Beckett at the Limit of the Human. New York: Fordham University Press, 2016. Pp. 248. $ 95.00 (cloth).
Rojas, Carlos. Homesickness: Culture, Contagion, and National Transformation in Modern China. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015. Pp. 352. $45.00 (cloth).
Siskind, Mariano. Cosmopolitan Desires: Global Modernity and World Literature in Latin America. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2014. Pp. 328. $45.00 (paper).
Smith, Steven B. Modernity and Its Discontents. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016. Pp. 416. $45.00 (cloth).
Skillman, Nikki. The Lyric in the Age of the Brain. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016. Pp. 352. $40.00 (cloth).
Ullyot, Jonathan. The Medieval Presence in Modernist Literature: The...

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