The M/m editorial team is delighted to announce the publication of issue 31.4.

Our slate of print articles…

• Zakir Paul revisits the representation of love in Proust.
• Tamlyn Avery examines masculinity, anxiety, and Wallace Thurman’s typewriter.
• Mia Alafaireet elucidates Jean Toomer’s and Nella Larsen’s modernizations of rootwork.
• Ross Cole argues that Fluxus was an experiment in utopia.
• Fangdai Chen theorizes Can Xue’s ecosophy of time.
• Julian Breandán Dean redefines authorship in W. B. Yeats’s At the Hawk’s Well.
• Aaren Pastor unearths Leonora Carrington’s theory of the inhuman bodymind.
• Shouhei Tanaka offers a scalar reading of Ulysses as ecological epic.

There is also a full slate of reviews, including a review essay by Rishona Zimring on three recent works about dance.

We’ve been busy on Print Plus in recent months, so be sure to check out new articles by Hannah Roche (Literary Labor: Radclyffe Hall’s Reproductive Futures) and Lorraine Sim (Happy Modernisms); a blog post by John Lurz (“A Secret Practice: Roland Barthes and the Writing of the Visual”); Tobias Boes’s translation and critical introduction to Thomas Mann’s essay “Bilse and I”; and two recent clusters: “Another Revolution” (ed. Monica Bravo and Florian Grosser) and “Modernism in Comics” (ed. Matthew Levay).

We are also delighted to announce the relaunching of the “Field Notes” blog under the editorship of Mukti Mangharam. For the occasion, Mukti has written an introductory editorial note, "Reports from a Global Field.” We are also privileged to publish Huda Fakhreddine’s “Notes from the Field of Arabic Literature in the Time of Genocide” as the inaugural post for the new “Field Notes.”

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Nearly four years ago, I began my co-editor term at Modernism/modernity. On July 1 my term will end and I will hand things over to my successor Faye Hammill, whom I wish every success in what will undoubtedly be a consequential editorial term. Good luck! During my term, I have had the honor of publishing some of the finest work and working with some of the finest people in our profession. My predecessors Chris Bush and Anne Fernald continue to be supportive guides and friends (with valuable institutional memory!). Our book reviews editors, Stefanie Sobelle and Martin Harries, have worked hard in their new role and set the bar high for their successors. Over the past four years, I’ve been extremely fortunate to work with six Concordia University graduate student editorial assistants: Nora Fulton, F.G. Fyfe, Catherine Hogg, Matthew King, Hector Macdonald, and Effy Morris. Thank you all for the many, many (many…) hours of citation checking!

Working tirelessly behind the digital veil is Harrington Weihl, our beloved Print Plus web editor. Thank you for your dependability and good humor!

Paisley Conrad, a PhD student in Concordia’s Department of English and now copy editor of Modernism/modernity, has been managing editor of the Concordia office for the past three years and exceeds every measure of professionalism and collegiality. I know everyone who has worked with her on the journal—as contributor or colleague—will agree. She sets the standard for editorial integrity and has a brilliant career ahead of her. Thank you, Paisley!

It was my supreme good fortune to be able to work with Anjali Nerlekar and Rudrani Gangopadhyay at the Rutgers desk these past two years. Rudrani’s work as Rutgers managing editor has been exemplary. As for you, Anjali: it’s been a blessing to work with you.

—Stephen Ross