Literature

The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself Racial Myths and Our American Narratives David Mura 2022 Fall

Uncovering the pernicious narratives white people create to justify white supremacy and sustain racist oppression

Angry Planet Decolonial Fiction and the American Third World Anne Stewart 2022 Fall

Before the idea of the Anthropocene, there was the angry planet

Not the Camilla We Knew One Woman’s Path from Small-town America to the Symbionese Liberation Army Rachael Hanel 2022 Fall

The mystery of how an ordinary Minnesota girl came to be, briefly, one of the most wanted domestic terrorists in the United States

Making Love with the Land Essays Joshua Whitehead 2022 Fall

A moving and deeply personal excavation of Indigenous beauty and passion in a suffering world

Isherwood on Writing The Complete Lectures in California Christopher Isherwood James J. Berg, Editor 2022 Fall

Isherwood’s lectures on writing and writers, now all available for the first time

Olav Audunssøn III. Crossroads Sigrid Undset 2022 Fall

The second volume in the Nobel Prize–winning writer’s epic of medieval Norway, finely capturing Undset’s fluid, natural style in a new English translation, the first in nearly a century

The Sky Watched Poems of Ojibwe Lives Linda LeGarde Grover 2022 Fall

A collective memoir in poetry of an Ojibwe family and tribal community, from creation myth to this day, updated with new poems

Olav Audunssøn III III. Crossroads Sigrid Undset 2022 Fall

The third volume in the Nobel Prize–winning writer’s epic story of medieval Norway, finely capturing Undset’s fluid, natural style in the first English translation in nearly a century

Iron Curtain Journals January–May 1965 Allen Ginsberg 2022 Fall

The first of three in a series of Ginsberg’s unpublished travel journals

South American Journals January–July 1960 Allen Ginsberg 2022 Fall

The great Beat poet’s observations, reflections, poetry, and mind-expanding explorations while traveling through South America

The Fall of America Journals, 1965-1971 Allen Ginsberg 2022 Fall

An autobiographical journey through America in the turbulent 1960s—the essential backstory to Ginsberg’s National Book Award–winning volume of poetry

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

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