Literature

Black Pulp Genre Fiction in the Shadow of Jim Crow Brooks E. Hefner 2021 Fall

A deep dive into mid-century African American newspapers, exploring how Black pulp fiction reassembled genre formulas in the service of racial justice

Cut/Copy/Paste Fragments from the History of Bookwork Whitney Trettien 2021 Fall

How do early modern media underlie today’s digital creativity?

Ahab Unbound Melville and the Materialist Turn Meredith Farmer and Jonathan D. S. Schroeder, Editors 2021 Fall

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

Life in Plastic Artistic Responses to Petromodernity Caren Irr, Editor 2021 Fall

A vital contribution to environmental humanities that explores artistic responses to the plastic age

Magical Realism for Non-Believers A Memoir of Finding Family Anika Fajardo 2021 Fall

A young woman from Minnesota searches out the Colombian father she’s never known in this powerful exploration of what family really means

After Effects A Memoir of Complicated Grief Andrea Gilats 2021 Fall

An intensely moving and revelatory memoir of enduring and emerging from exceptional grief

The Big Island A Story of Isle Royale Julian May 2021 Fall

First published in 1968, this engrossing and beautiful picture book about wildlife on Isle Royale is available again

The Silver Box An Enchantment Lake Mystery Margi Preus 2021 Fall

In the final Enchantment Lake mystery, Francie’s search for the truth about her mother—and herself—plunges her into danger during a North Woods winter

American Gospel A Novel Lin Enger 2021 Fall

Radically personal and quintessentially American, an intimate drama at the heart of an apocalyptic vision

Raising Ollie How My Nonbinary Art-Nerd Kid Changed (Nearly) Everything I Know Tom Rademacher 2021 Fall

The account of one radically new school year for a Teacher of the Year and for his nonbinary, art-obsessed, brilliant child

Gichigami Hearts Stories and Histories from Misaabekong Linda LeGarde Grover 2021 Fall

Award-winning author Linda LeGarde Grover interweaves family and Ojibwe history with stories from Misaabekong (the place of the giants) on Lake Superior

Olav Audunssøn II II. Providence Sigrid Undset 2021 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

Reeling A Novel Sarah Stonich 2021 Fall

RayAnne’s next adventure takes our intrepid heroine, haunted by her beloved grandmother’s death, to New Zealand to film a new season of her all-women fishing talk show

Grandmother’s Pigeon Louise Erdrich 2021 Fall

A grandmother’s sudden departure leaves her family with an even more puzzling, and wondrous, surprise in this enchanting story from the National Book Award–winning author—at last back in print