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The 2026 Free Issues: Read a free issue of each journal

Promotional banner reading ‘Free Issues 2026’ alongside four journal covers: French Studies: A Quarterly Review, arq, Science Fiction Film and Television, and The Bodleian Library Record. Liverpool University Press logo appears in the bottom right.

We are pleased to share the 2026 Free Issues. Each year, we make one issue from each of our journals free to read, showcasing the range of disciplines, approaches, and scholarly communities represented across the Press.

Visit our Free Issues page to access free content in Modern Languages, Cultural History, Art & Architecture, Jewish Studies, Science Fiction Studies, Planning, and more.  

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Highlights include…

Cover of French Studies: A Quarterly Review. The title appears in large red text on a cream background with a red divider line. Published by Liverpool University Press for the Society for French Studies.

French Studies: A Quarterly Review
Published on behalf of the Society for French Studies.

This issue focuses on ageism, ageing, and old age in contemporary French culture. Including new readings of Beauvoir’s La Vieillesse, writing and readership in later life (including Annie Ernaux and Margaret Drabble), ageing, intimacy, and care in contemporary women’s writing, and explorations of screen cultures in the work of Agnès Varda and Gaspar Noé’s Vortex (2021). The issue is complemented by an extensive reviews section.  

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Sculpture Journal
Devoted to sculpture in all its aspects across the globe.

This special issue of Sculpture Journal, Pioneering Women Sculptors, brings together new research on women’s sculptural careers, networks, and public commissions, with studies of Paris-based practitioners, suffrage-linked commissioning, post-war reconstruction, exile, and international institutional sculpture. Includes an artists-in-conversation feature and reviews.

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Black-and-white photograph of a woman sculptor working on a stone bust with a hammer and chisel. The journal title ‘Sculpture Journal’ appears at the top, with ‘Volume 32.1, 2023’.
Journal cover for Science Fiction Film and Television, Volume 16, Issues 1–2 (2023), special issue ‘Oversights’. Dark background with an abstract, sci-fi image featuring circular forms and a green cone shape. A list of article titles and authors appears below the image.

Science Fiction Film & Television
Exploring science fiction on screen, from film and television history to contemporary global media.

This issue explores “Oversights” in the history of science fiction on screen, revisiting neglected and underexamined films and television. Articles range from Tarkovsky’s Solaris and the Stargate franchise to anime, Italian and Turkish science fiction cinema, and Jordan Peele’s Nope, alongside review essays and book reviews.

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The 2026 Free Issues also feature several journals newly available at LUP, including Arabic Sciences and Philosophy, arq: Architectural Research Quarterly, Continuity and Change, and The Library.

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Also of interest: Liverpool University Press to Publish the Journal of Transport Economics & Policy from 2026.

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