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For All Waters: Finding Ourselves in Early Modern Wetscapes For All Waters Finding Ourselves in Early Modern Wetscapes Lowell Duckert 2017 Spring
The Shakespearean era’s wet writers guide our eco-way today
First Thought: Conversations with Allen Ginsberg First Thought Conversations with Allen Ginsberg Michael Schumacher, Editor 2017 Spring
The Beat Generation’s best-known poet, in previously uncollected interviews, on reading and writing, poetry and politics
The Financial Imaginary: Economic Mystification and the Limits of Realist Fiction The Financial Imaginary Economic Mystification and the Limits of Realist Fiction Alison Shonkwiler 2017 Spring
Exploring how contemporary realist fiction confronts the challenges of financial abstraction and the return to Gilded Age levels of inequality
The Book of the Dead The Book of the Dead Shinobu Orikuchi 2016 Fall
The first complete English translation of a Japanese literary masterpiece
Indirect Action: Schizophrenia, Epilepsy, AIDS, and the Course of Health Activism Indirect Action Schizophrenia, Epilepsy, AIDS, and the Course of Health Activism Lisa Diedrich 2016 Fall
The interconnectedness of illness, thought, and activism prior to the arrival of AIDS in the United States
Like Clockwork: Steampunk Pasts, Presents, and Futures Like Clockwork Steampunk Pasts, Presents, and Futures Rachel A. Bowser and Brian Croxall, Editors 2016 Fall
From Dragon*Con to IBM’s big data and neo-Victorianism to disability studies—the fascinating rise of an international subculture
Anti-Book: On the Art and Politics of Radical Publishing Anti-Book On the Art and Politics of Radical Publishing Nicholas Thoburn 2016 Fall
A major new look at experimental political writing and publishing
Living Cargo: How Black Britain Performs Its Past Living Cargo How Black Britain Performs Its Past Steven Blevins 2016 Fall
A sweeping survey of the historical turn in contemporary black British art and literature
Recovery Recovery John Berryman 2016 Fall
Renowned poet John Berryman’s first and only novel, unfinished at the time of his suicide, about “the disease called alcoholism”
The War Came Home with Him: A Daughter’s Memoir The War Came Home with Him A Daughter’s Memoir Catherine Madison 2016 Fall
A poignant look at the suppressed grief and thwarted love that forever alter a family when a soldier brings his war home
d’Aulaires’ Book of Norwegian Folktales d’Aulaires’ Book of Norwegian Folktales 2016 Spring
A collection of twenty-one classic Norwegian folktales from two Caldecott-honored authors and illustrators
Dharma Lion: A Biography of Allen Ginsberg Dharma Lion A Biography of Allen Ginsberg Michael Schumacher 2016 Spring
The expansive, authoritative biography of a Beat Generation leader—now with two new chapters
Women Write Iran: Nostalgia and Human Rights from the Diaspora Women Write Iran Nostalgia and Human Rights from the Diaspora Nima Naghibi 2016 Spring
Auto/biographical narratives can kindle both our empathy and our commitment to human rights
If Bees Are Few: A Hive of Bee Poems If Bees Are Few A Hive of Bee Poems 2016 Spring
An anthology of 2,500 years of poetry, from Sappho to Sherman Alexie, humming with bees, at a moment when the beloved honey makers and pollinators are in danger of disappearing
So Much to Be Done: The Writings of Breast Cancer Activist Barbara Brenner So Much to Be Done The Writings of Breast Cancer Activist Barbara Brenner Barbara Brenner Barbara Sjoholm, Editor 2016 Spring
Political and inspiring, personal and influential—the writings of Barbara Brenner, who transformed the way we look at breast cancer