Literature

This Contested Land The Storied Past and Uncertain Future of America’s National Monuments McKenzie Long 2022 Spring

One woman’s enlightening trek through the natural histories, cultural stories, and present perils of thirteen national monuments, from Maine to Hawaii

Dark Scenes from Damaged Earth The Gothic Anthropocene Justin D. Edwards, Rune Graulund and Johan Höglund, Editors 2022 Spring

An urgent volume of essays engages the Gothic to advance important perspectives on our geological era

Seven Aunts Staci Lola Drouillard 2022 Spring

Part memoir, part cultural history, these memories of seven aunts holding home and family together tell a crucial, often overlooked story of women of the twentieth century

Red and Black A Chronicle of 1830 Stendhal 2022 Spring

A masterpiece of nineteenth-century literature in a fresh translation that fully captures the language, psychology, and social reach of Stendhal’s original

Troll Magic Hidden Folk from the Mountains and Forests of Norway Theodor Kittelsen 2022 Spring

A collection of macabre and magical folklore from the “godfather” of the Norwegian troll

On the Wandering Paths Sylvain Tesson 2022 Spring

A walking journey through France’s vast interior becomes a meditation on both personal recovery and the role of history in the present—more than 425,000 copies sold in France

Rafferty’s Last Case A Minnesota Mystery Featuring Sherlock Holmes Larry Millett 2022 Spring

The ninth and final Minnesota mystery, in which Shadwell Rafferty, with the inimitable Sherlock Holmes, may have solved his own murder

Bim, Bam, Bop . . . and Oona Jacqueline Briggs Martin 2022 Spring

An irresistible read-aloud picture book, in which a little odd-duck-out discovers her unique strengths

Ahab Unbound Melville and the Materialist Turn Meredith Farmer and Jonathan D. S. Schroeder, Editors 2022 Spring

Why Captain Ahab is worthy of our fear—and our compassion

Cacaphonies The Excremental Canon of French Literature Annabel L. Kim 2022 Spring

Exploring why there is so much fecal matter in literary works that matter

Noopiming The Cure for White Ladies Leanne Betasamosake Simpson 2022 Spring

The new novel from the author of As We Have Always Done, a poetic world-building journey into the power of Anishinaabe life and traditions amid colonialism