Mid-Century Gothic: The Uncanny Objects of Modernity in British Literature and Culture after the Second World War, by Lisa Mullen Leo Mellor is impressed by a bold reinterpretation of British culture in the middle of the past century By Leo Mellor 24 October
The Value of Ecocriticism, by Timothy Clark Book of the week: Leo Mellor assesses a bold attempt to make the case for literature and criticism in the light of environmental disaster By Leo Mellor 20 June
War beyond Words: Languages of Remembrance from the Great War to the Present, by Jay Winter Leo Mellor on the artistic ways in which the conflicts of the past century are recalled and reimagined By Leo Mellor 7 March
The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis, by Alan Jacobs Amid war, intellectual believers worked to imagine a future peacetime society, learns Leo Mellor By Leo Mellor 8 November
The Proletarian Answer to the Modernist Question, by Nick Hubble Leo Mellor on a work that explores a group of writers for whom questions about time, selfhood and reality led not to introspection or aesthetic withdrawal but to a desire to change the world By Leo Mellor 1 February
Crime Writing in Interwar Britain: Fact and Fiction in the Golden Age, by Victoria Stewart Rich and strange, detective tales of the 1920s and 1930s are worth unearthing, says Leo Mellor By Leo Mellor 19 October
