We have a timely cover for the 31.3 issue. The questions of choice, propaganda, and freedom surround us today, as they did during the Second World War, when the periodical Choix was published (read about its fascinating history in the essay by Guy Woodward and James Smith). Equally timely are questions about reproduction, motherhood, and queerness, all of which appear in the two essays on Radclyffe Hall’s work (by Hannah Roche and Elizabeth Blake). You can acccess one of these online as the teaser article on Print Plus. The current issue also invokes that timeliness in its contents. The war features twice: read about Gertrude Stein and WWI (Christine Fouirnaies) and histories of print culture during WWII (Guy Woodward and James Smith). These are accompanied by essays on: Irish modernism (Julie McCormick Weng), “gut modernism” (Christina Walter), the modernist cat (Anushka Sen), and “Scream” (John Mowitt).

Check out the great range of book reviews as well, including the double review by Tobias Wilke, and the open access review of Heather Love’s book on Cybernetic Aesthetics.

On Print Plus exclusively, there is the wonderful blog entry by Anne Fernald on the correspondence of Jessie Redmon Fauset and Langston Hughes, and one by Ria Banerjee on the colonial gaze in Black Narcissus. Do also read the essays by John Drew on Rudyard Kipling and Jack Dudley on Jean Rhys, as well as a review of the unusual biography of Hilda Matheson by Debra Rae Cohen.     

—Anjali Nerlekar