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Book Review: The Impact of Racism on African American Families: Literature as...
In focusing on what literature can tell us about various aspects of African American life, including housing, earnings, assets, unemployment, household violence, teen pregnancy and encounters with the...
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Book Review: Sex, Crime and Literature in Victorian England by Ian Ward
The Victorians worried about many things, prominent among their worries being the ‘condition’ of England and the ‘question’ of its women. Sex, Crime and Literature in Victorian England aims to revisit...
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Book Review: The Digital Afterlives of Jane Austen: Janeites at the Keyboard...
Jane Austen’s novels are constantly re-imagined on page and screen. The Digital Afterlives of Jane Austen explores the fascinating realm of Austen fandom on the internet. A compelling read for anyone...
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Book Review: Internet Literature in China by Michel Hockx
This book examines the budding Chinese literary communities and their practices on the Internet. In Internet Literature in China, author Michael Hockx‘s theoretical use of postsocialism as an...
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Book Review: Conflict in the Academy: A Study in the Sociology of Intellectuals
In Conflict in the Academy: A Study in the Sociology of Intellectuals, Marcus Morgan and Patrick Baert yield key insights into the dark underside of academe by exploring the dynamics behind a...
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Black Enlightenment – review
In Black Enlightenment, Surya Parekh reconsiders the Enlightenment from the position of the Black subject, examining the works of writers such as Francis Williams, Ignatius Sancho and Phillis Wheatley...
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Impermanent Blackness: The Making and Unmaking of Interracial Literary...
In Impermanent Blackness: The Making and Unmaking of Interracial Literary Culture in Modern America, Korey Garibaldi explores interracial collaborations between authors, agents and publishers in the US...
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Seven recommended reads for UK Disability History Month 2023
To mark UK Disability History Month 2023 (16 November to 16 December), members of LSE’s Disability and Wellbeing Staff Network (DAWN) and the wider LSE community recommend seven books about disability...
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The Plastic Turn – review
In The Plastic Turn, Ranjan Ghosh posits plastic as the defining material of our age and plasticity as an innovative means of understanding the arts and literature. Joff Bradley welcomes this...
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Q and A with Caroline Derry on Agatha Christie, lesbians and criminal courts
Lesbian relationships in Britain were regulated and silenced for centuries, through the courts and though wider patriarchal structures. In an interview with Anna D’Alton (LSE Review of Books), Caroline...
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