Books for Review

At ASAP/Review, we value the intimacy and immediacy of conversation. To this end, we provide a forum for scholars, writers, and artists to converse with one another in ways that eschew publication in traditional academic publications.

Given our broad readership base, we prefer an informal conversational style over writing that is too heavy with esoteric academic jargon.

We also encourage formally inventive, visual pieces in a range of genres on the contemporary arts—from digital exhibitions to artistically mapping a complex bit of code.

Author guidelines for features and reviews

  • Manuscripts should be submitted in Microsoft Word.
  • Word counts are max. 4000 words for features and max. 1500 words for reviews.
  • Interviews, dialogues, and clusters should include an introduction of 200-500 words.
  • Submissions should be prepared in accordance with the Chicago Manual of Style using endnotes for citations. You may use digital referencing to hyperlink to relevant sources including videos, news stories, etc. We don’t require a Works Cited or Bibliography.
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  • ASAP/Review does not accept features or reviews that have been previously published in any language; submissions simultaneously under review by other forums will not be considered.
  • ASAP/Review does not publish unsolicited creative submissions, though we do encourage critical work in creative formats.
  • If you have pitched a cluster and it has been approved, you will receive a cluster editorial checklist to work through before submission.

Visual Arts, Architecture, Art History

  • Omaris Z. Zamora, Ciguapa Unbound: AfroLatinx Feminist Epistemologies of Tranceformation (NYU, 2026).
  • Elleza Kelley, Flight Lines: A Poetics of Black Space (Duke, 2026).
  • Florencia San Martín, Alfredo Jaar: Decolonial Time and the Aesthetics of the Unfinished (Duke, 2026).
  • Joshua Shannon, Looking for Tomorrow: Lessons from Art for the Time of Climate Change (UC Press, 2026).
  • Joshua Chambers-Letson, Unfinished Grief: Queer Love and Loss (NYU, 2026).
  • Sohl Lee, The Minjung Art Movement: Decolonization and Democracy in South Korea (Duke, 2026).
  • Kalani Michell, Working Title: Media Packaging and the Margins of Art (University of California, 2026).
  • Karina Vernon and Winfried Siemerling, Call and Response-ability: Black Canadian Works of Art and the Politics of Relation (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2026).
  • Susan Cahill, States of Observance: Contemporary Art and Surveillance Logic in Canada (McGill-Queen’s, 2026).
  • China Medel, Spectral Aesthetics: Visualizing the Crisis of Migrant Disappearance (University of Texas, 2026).
  • Danielle Drees, Sleep with Spectators: Feminist Performance and Practice (Minnesota, 2026).
  • Paul Dobraszczyk, The Matter of Architecture: Geology, Buildings and Us (Chicago, 2026).
  • Huey Copeland, Touched by the Mother: Black Men, American Art, Feminist Horizons (Chicago, 2026).
  • Caroline Lillian Schopp, In-action: Viennese Actionism and the Passivities of Performance (Chicago, 2025).
  • Jennifer Sichel, Criticism Without Authority: Gene Swenson’s and Jill Johnston’s Queer Practices (Chicago, 2025).
  • Colin Williamson, Drawn to Nature: American Animation in the Age of Science (Minnesota, 2025).
  • David Wittenberg, Big Culture: Toward an Aesthetics of Magnitude (Chicago, 2025).
  • Michael Shane Boyle, The Art of Logistics: Artistic Production in Supply Chain Capitalism (Stanford, 2024).
  • Nicole L. Woods, Performing Chance: The Art of Alison Knowles In/Out of Fluxus (Chicago, 2025).
  • Heather Jessup, This Is Not a Hoax: Unsettling Truth in Canadian Culture (WLU, 2025).
  • Selected Writings of Okwui Enwezor (Duke, 2025).
  • Alicia Volk, In the Shadow of Empire: Art in Occupied Japan (Chicago, 2025).
  • Marcus Verhagen, Viewing Velocities: Time in Contemporary Art (Verso, 2024).
  • Alice Kaplan, Seeing Baya: Portrait of an Algerian Artist in Paris (Chicago, 2024).
  • Alexandra S. Moore and Elizabeth Swanson, eds., The Guantánamo Artwork and Testimony of Moath Al-Alwi: Deaf Walls Speak(Springer, 2024).
  • Alison Halsall, Growing Up Graphic: The Comics of Children in Crisis (Ohio State, 2023).
  • Chris Reitz, Martin Kippenberger: Everything is Everywhere (MIT, 2023).
  • Johanna Drucker and Brad Freeman, eds., The JAB Anthology (Iowa, 2023).
  • Carolyn L. Kane, Electrographic Architecture: New York Color, Las Vegas Light, and America’s White Imaginary (California, 2023).
  • Monica Huerta, The Unintended: Photography, Property, and the Aesthetics of Racial Capitalism (NYU, 2023).
  • Lisa Biggs, The Healing Stage: Black Women, Incarceration, and the Art of Transformation (Ohio State, 2022).
  • Nicholas Gamso, Art after Liberalism (Columbia, 2022).

Media, Film, TV Culture, Digital Arts

  • Sarah Hayden, Voiceworks (Minnesota Press, 2026).
  • Arlene Dávila, Visualizing Latinx: Creative Practices in Fashion, Film, and Beyond (Duke UP, 2026).
  • Peter D. McDonald, The Impossible Reversal: A History of How We Play (Minnesota, 2026).
  • Sarah Rainey-Smithback, Crip Love Onscreen: Representations of Love, Sex, and Disability (Ohio State Press, 2026).
  • Máiréad Casey, Demon Possession and Sexual Violence in Post-Great Recession American Horror Cinema (University of Wales, 2026).
  • Marc Francis, Curating Deviance: Programming the Queer Film Canon (Duke, 2026).
  • Michael Rubenstein, Pipeline Noir: Seeing Oil through Chinatown (University of Minnesota, 2025).
  • Curtis Marez, Producing Precarity: The Costs of Making TV in Poor Places (NYU Press, 2025).
  • Thomas Schatz, Surge: Conglomerate Hollywood and the Studio System’s Last Hurrah (University of California Press, 2026).
  • Laura Horak, Trans Cinema: Making Communities, Identities, and Worlds (University of California, 2026).
  • Matthew I. Thompson, ON LIFE SUPPORT: Eco-Dystopian Cinema in the Long 1970s (Minnesota, 2026).
  • Ivan Cerecina, ASSEMBLY LINES: Montage in Postwar French Film (University of Minnesota Press, 2026).
  • Lisa Nakamura, The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet (Minnesota, 2026).
  • Seth Long, The Last Mixtape: Physical Media and Nostalgic Cycles (Chicago, 2025).
  • Isaiah Matthew Wooden, Reclaiming Time: Race, Temporality, and Black Expressive Culture (Northwestern, 2025).
  • Tessa Laird, Cinemal: The Becoming-Animal of Experimental Film (Minnesota, 2025).
  • Bo Ruberg, How to Queer the World: Radical Worldbuilding through Video Games (NYU, 2025).
  • Tom Gunning, The Attractions of the Moving Image: Essays on History, Theory, and the Avant-Garde (Chicago, 2025).
  • N. Katherine Hayles, Bacteria to AI: Human Futures with our Nonhuman Symbionts (Chicago, 2025).
  • Joseph Jonghyun Jeon, Bong Joon Ho (Illinois, 2024).
  • Sheng-mei Ma, China Pop!: Pop Culture, Propaganda, Pacific Pop-Ups (Ohio State, 2024).
  • Diana Rickard, The New True Crime: How the Rise of Serialized Storytelling Is Transforming Innocence (NYU, 2023).
  • Robert Burgoyne, The New American War Film (Minnesota, 2023).

Literature

  • Shelley Streeby, Science Fiction Ecologies: Worldmaking with Butler, Le Guin, and Merril (NYU Press, 2026).
  • Mary Thompson, Ordinary Abortion: Reproductive Choice in First-Century Women’s Writing (Ohio State, 2026).
  • Yanbing Er, Feminism Enchanted (Columbia, 2025).
  • Samia Rahimtoola, Poetry from Spaceship Earth: Empire and Ecology in Post-1945 American Poetry (University of Iowa Press, 2026).
  • Alice Butler, Close Writing: Kathy Acker, Cookie Mueller, and Love-in-Pieces (Duke, 2026).
  • Alyssa A. Hunziker, Histories in Common: Native American Literatures, Extra Archives, and the Indigenous Transpacific (University of North Carolina Press, 2026).
  • Joanna Davis-McElligatt, Black Aliens: Kinship in the Cosmic Diaspora (Ohio State, 2026).
  • Seth McKelvey, No Exit: Contemporary American Literature and the State (University of Virginia, 2025).
  • Lois Parkinson Zamora, Beyond Individualism: Portraying Collective Selfhood in Latin American Literature and Art (University of Chicago, 2026)
  • Jody Mason, Books for Development: Canada in the Late Twentieth-Century World (McGill Queen’s, 2025).
  • Theodore Martin, American Literature’s War on Crime: Novels and the Hidden History of Mass Incarceration (Columbia, 2026).
  • Keegan Cooke Finnberg, Poetry in General: How a Literary Form Became Public (Columbia, 2025).
  • Jennifer Scapettone, Poetry After Barbarism: The Invention of Motherless Tongues and Resistance to Facism (Columbia, 2025).
  • Lois Parkinson Zamora, Beyond Individualism: Portraying Collective Selfhood in Latin American Literature and Art (Chicago, 2026).
  • Allison Carruth, Novel Ecologies: Nature Remade and the Illusions of Tech (Chicago, 2025).
  • Rose Casey, Aesthetic Impropriety: Property Law and Postcolonial Style (Fordham, 2025).
  • Anna Ioanes, Painful Forms: Aesthetic Violence in American Literature and Art (North Carolina, 2025).
  • Lesley Larkin, Reading in the Postgenomic Age: Race, Discipline, and Bionarrativity in Contemporary North American Literature (Ohio State, 2025).
  • Asha Jeffers, Against! Rebellious Daughters in Black Immigrant Fiction in the United States (Ohio State, 2025).
  • Mollie Godfrey, Brave Humanism: Black Women Rewriting the Human in the Age of Jane Crow (Ohio State, 2025).
  • Suzanne Bost, Quiet Methodologies: Humility in the Humanities (Minnesota, 2025).
  • Kate McCullough, Never on Time, Always in Time: Narrative Form and the Queer Sensorium (Ohio State, 2024).
  • Mat Fournier, Dysphoric Modernism: Undoing Gender in French Literature (Columbia, 2024).
  • Heidi Siegrist, All Y’all: Queering Southernness in US Fiction, 1980–2020 (North Carolina, 2024).
  • Eric Cheyfitz, The Colonial Construction of Indian Country: Native American Literatures and Federal Indian Law (Minnesota, 2023).
  • Stephanie Li, Ugly White People: Writing Whiteness in Contemporary America (Minnesota, 2023).
  • Sheri-Marie Harrison et al., eds., Jesmyn Ward (Edinburgh, 2023).
  • Kyle Garton-Gundling, Enlightened Individualism: Buddhism and Hinduism in American Literature from the Beats to the Present (Ohio State, 2023).

Music, Drama, Dance, and Performance

  • Amanda Michelle Reid, Smaddification: Dance and Decolonization in Jamaica (Duke University Press, 2026).
  • Olivia Michiko Gagnon, On Closeness: Minoritarian Method and Forms of Relation (NYU Press, 2026).
  • Jade Power-Sotomayor, Habla! Speaking Bodies and Dancing Our América (NYU Press, 2026).
  • Kristyl D. Tift, A Conditional Embrace: Black Queer Feminism in Performance (Ohio State, 2026).
  • Alix Chapman, Raising the Bottom: Bounce Music and Black Queer Performance in Post-Katrina New Orleans (Duke, 2026).
  • Leda Maria Martins, Performances of Spiral Time (Duke, 2025).
  • Ella Parry-Davies, Intimate Inequalities: Performing Migrant Domestic Work (Northwestern 2025).
  • Brian Harnetty, Noisy Memory: Recording Sound, Performing Archives (North Carolina, 2025).
  • Joshua Javier Guzmán, Dissatisfactions: Queer Latinidad and the Politics of Style (NYU, 2025).
  • Alfred L. Martin, Jr., Fandom for Us, by Us: The Pleasures and Practices of Black Audiences (NYU, 2025).
  • Nghana tamu Lewis, Black Women’s Health in the Age of Hip Hop and HIV/AIDS: A Narrative Remix (Ohio State, 2025).
  • Patrick McKelvey, Disability Works: Performance After Rehabilitation (NYU, 2024).
  • Joseph Pizza, Dissonant Voices: Race, Jazz, and Innovative Poetics in Midcentury America (Iowa, 2023).
  • Liz Przybylski, Sonic Sovereignty: Hip Hop, Indigeneity, and Shifting Popular Music Mainstreams (NYU, 2023).
  • Iván A. Ramos, Unbelonging: Inauthentic Sounds in Mexican and Latinx Aesthetics (NYU, 2023).
  • Jacqueline Shea Murph, Dancing Indigenous Worlds (Minnesota, 2023).

Critical Theory, Intellectual History, Philosophy

  • Brianne Cohen, The Empathic Lens: Art, Animism, and Ecology in Contemporary Southeast Asia (Minnesota Press, 2026).
  • Stephanie Andrea Allen, “We Must Document Ourselves Now”: Black Cultural Legacies and the Politics of Self-Representation (Ohio State, 2026)
  • Joanna Woronkowicz, Artists at Work: Rethinking Policy for Artistic Careers (Stanford, 2025).
  • Monique Roelofs, Strange Tastes: Aesthetics and the Public in Latin American and Latinx Feminisms (Duke, 2026).
  • Annie McClanahan, Beneath the Wage: Tips, Tasks, and Gigs in the Age of Service Work (Princeton, 2026).
  • Fatma Akçay, Transnational African Identities in Contemporary Urban Fiction: Community, Hospitality, and Friendship (Routledge, 2026).
  • Juan Meneses, Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination (Minnesota, 2025).
  • Irving Goh, Living On After Failure: Affective Structures of Modern Life (Duke, 2025).
  • Mariana Ortega, Carnalities: The Art of Living in Latinidad (Duke, 2025).
  • Melody Jue, Coralations (Minnesota, 2024).
  • Cheryl Narumi Naruse. Becoming Global Asia: Contemporary Genres of Postcolonial Capitalism in Singapore (California, 2023).
  • Michael M. J. Fischer, At the Pivot of East and West: Ethnographic, Literary, and Filmic Arts (Duke, 2023).
  • Joan Kee, The Geometries of Afro Asia: Art beyond Solidarity (California, 2023).