Modern Language Review is the official quarterly journal of the Modern Humanities Research Association. Published in January, April, July, and October each year, MLR contains articles and book reviews on modern and medieval European (including English and Latin American) languages, literatures, and cultures (including medieval and neo-Latin, and cinema). Contents: Peter Yoonsuk Paik, 'Destiny, Discretion, and the Demonic: On Isak Dinesen's "Alkmene"' Kathryn Bryan, 'Fantine in the Belle Époque: Representation of the Fille-Mère in L'Assiette au Beurre (1902) and Marcelle Tinayre's La Rebelle (1905)' Lachlan Hughes, 'Dante's Arethusa and the Art of Transition' Samuel O'Donoghue, 'Identification and Empathy in Perpetrator Fiction on the Spanish Civil War' Daphne Maria Seemann, 'Abbas Khider's Refugee Narrative Ohrfeige: A System-Critical Intervention in the Continuing Human Rights and Solidarity Crisis' Anna Maslenova, 'The Silhouette of a Translator: Marian Fell and Russian Culture' Cathy McAteer, 'The Voice in the Snow: Rediscovering Olga Carlisle as a Mediator of Russian Culture' Book reviews