Liminalities will publish reviews of any books relevant to performance studies, broadly construed. If you are interested in reviewing one of the books listed below, please send a note of inquiry to the book review editor, Leila Nashef (UHI Inverness): lnashef@gmail.com

If interested in reviewing a title not listed below, send a note of proposal to the editor. Publishers should contact Leila Nashef at lnashef@gmail.com to list titles.



recent titles received for review:
(updated May 2026)

Audiofuturism: Science Fiction Radio Drama and the Black Fantastic Imagination (2026), by andré carrington

The Benevolent Gaslight: A Technology of Racemaking (2026), ed. by Louis M. Maraj and Pritha Prasad

The Pipeline is Broken: Graduate Students of Color on Racism, Justice, and Joy in the Academy (2026), ed. by Orly Clerge, Asia Ivey, Michelle Harris, and Sherrill Sellers

Dancing Place: Scores of the City, Scores of the Shore (2026), by Adesola Akinleye & Helen Kindred

Still Moving: Conversations with Senior Professional Dancers Still Performing (2025), by Sonia York-Pryce

The Intellect Handbook of Dance Education Research (2025), ed. by Lynnette Young Overby, Billie Lepczyk & Jill Green

Liminality in the Aeneid: A Study in Liminal Poetic Technique (2026), by Marco Menna

Unfinished Grief: Queer Love and Loss (2026), by Joshua Chambers-Letson

On Activism, Friendships, and Fighting (2025), by Benjamin Heim Shepard

Performing Punctuation (2026) ed. by Julieanna Preston and Anna Brown

Theatre, Globalisation and the Heteroglobal Method (2026) by Glenn Odom

Matrescence and Performance: Becoming/Unbecoming (2026) by Laura Bissell

Communities of Sound: Religion, Displacement, and Caste in the Bay of Bengal (2026) by Carola E. Lorea

Raising the Bottom: Bounce Music and Black Queer Performance in Post-Katrina New Orleans (2026) by Alix Chapman

Melodrama as Provocateur (2026) by Linda Williams, ed. by Christine Gledhill, Laura Horak, Elisabeth R. Anker

The Minjung Art Movement (2026) by Sohl Lee

Beyond the Moment: Connecting Histories of Latinx Performance and Resistance (2026), by Irene Mata

Making Movement Modern: Science, Politics, and the Body in Motion (2026), by Whitney E. Laemmli

Puto: Plays (2026), by Ricardo A. Bracho, ed. by Jennifer S. Ponce de León, Richard T. Rodríguez, and Randall Williams

Currencies of Cruelty: Slavery, Freak Shows, and the Performance Archive (2026), by Danielle Bainbridge

Entrepreneurial Arts and Cultural Leadership: Traits of Success in Nonprofit Theatre (2025) by Bonnie Fogel and Brett Ashley Crawford

Drama for Schools and Beyond: Transformative Learning Through the Arts (2025), ed. by Kathryn Dawson, Beth Link, Stephanie Cawthon and Lara Dossett

Theatricality Beyond Disciplines (2025), by Amin Erfani

Vernacular Theatre (2025), by Jonathan Petherbridge

Schechner Plays (2025), by Richard Schechner

The Cambridge Companion to Stand-Up Comedy (2025), ed. by Oliver Double

Sara Allgood's Memories: Untold Stories of the Abbey Theatre and Early Hollywood (2025), by Elizabeth Brewer Redwine

Replaying Marc Anthony: Sonic, Political, and Cultural Resonances (2025) by Frances R. Aparicio

My Studio is a Dungeon is the Studio: Writings and Interviews, 1983-2024 (2025) by Nayland Blake

Mavericks of Style: The Seventies in Color (2025) by Uri McMillan

Digital Access to the Performing Arts (2026) by Magda Romanska

Lessons in Drag: A Queer Manual for Academics, Artists, and Aunties (2025) by Kareem Khubchandani

Postmodernism in Arthur Miller's Long-Late Period (2025) by Ciaran Leinster

Molla Nasreddin: The Making of a Modern Trickster (2025) by Janet Afary & Karman Afary







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