Humanities, 1994- . Future volumes will also cover media and film studies, and the section of commissioned essays will be on different topics. 2 has appeared but I have not seen it. Neither annual review pretends to be an exhaustive bibliography, but this is a difficult field to be bibliographic in. The essays are fair, non-polemical, and sympathetic with their subject.
Treatment does vary in the different chapters.
The chapter on feminism, for example, is by several writers and proceeds topically from feminist theory through black women's writing and criticism, international and postcolonial feminism, European feminism, lesbian feminism, psychoanalysis and feminism, representation, and finally to gender studies and masculinity. In contrast, the chapter on historicism is by one reviewer and proceeds from name to name, from Trotsky through Lukacs to Bloch, Benjamin, and others. The British emphasis and point of view may be a drawback in the chapter on popular music, but on the whole the volume is quite relevant to North American scholars. There are flaws of course. The list of books received is useful, but the long lag between year covered and year published makes this less useful for selection than for double-checking selection later.