ICYMI: New & Notable Articles (15 April 2024)

How and when will translation receive recognition for its crucial role in the academic ecosystem? 

Spanning the Hopkins Press blog & 9 articles in a new special issue of MLN, it's a lively and thoughtful 10-scholar forum, open access for a year thru March 2025
 

How do data & early 20th century literary culture interact, and can data aesthetics help us better understand writer Ronald Firbank?

In the new Cusp, read about Firbank’s camp and elusive style and how the information economy can help elucidate his work.

An interview with Poet Laureate George Elliott Clarke highlights his newest book J’Accuse…! and its themes of social injustice, race relations in Canada, and misogyny through the lens of poetry, memoir, and narrative

Free thru 19 April in then new African American Review
 

The Schinasi Brothers rose into the highest echelons of New York City at the turn of the 20th century, building a global cigarette company

Read their fascinating history free thru 19 April in the new issue of American Jewish History
 

Zora Neale Huston’s 1937 novel “Their Eyes were Watching God” features Pheoby Watson, a character who invites queer discourse by unsettling cisheterosexual storylines

Benjamin Bagocius explores the portrayal in the new Mississippi Quarterly, free thru 19 April 

 

Anastassiya Andrianova discusses how vegan picturebooks should not only discuss veganism as a dietary practice, but also as a philosophy

Read more, free thru 19 April in the new issue of Children's Literature Association Quarterly.