Literature

Black Queer Flesh Rejecting Subjectivity in the African American Novel Alvin J. Henry 2020 Fall

A groundbreaking examination of how twentieth-century African American writers use queer characters to challenge and ultimately reject subjectivity

Lost Souls Honoré de Balzac 2020 Fall

The first new translation of Balzac’s 1847 novel Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes in half a century, fully annotated and with an extensive introduction

Outsiders Within Writing on Transracial Adoption Jane Jeong Trenka, Julia Chinyere Oparah and Sun Yung Shin, Editors 2020 Fall

Confronting trauma behind the transnational adoption system—now back in print

Olav Audunssøn I. Vows Sigrid Undset 2020 Fall

The initial volume in the Nobel Prize–winning author’s tumultuous, epic story of medieval Norway—the first new English translation in nearly a century

The Fall of America Journals, 1965-1971 Allen Ginsberg 2020 Fall

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

American Gospel A Novel Lin Enger 2020 Fall

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

Radioactive Ghosts Gabriele Schwab 2020 Fall

A pioneering examination of nuclear trauma, the continuing and new nuclear peril, and the subjectivities they generate

Undiscovered Country A Novel Lin Enger 2020 Fall

Now in paperback—a bold reinvention of Shakespeare’s Hamlet and a hair-bristling story of betrayal, revenge, and the possibilities of forgiveness

Infrastructures of Apocalypse American Literature and the Nuclear Complex Jessica Hurley 2020 Fall

A new approach to the vast nuclear infrastructure and the apocalypses it produces, focusing on Black, queer, Indigenous, and Asian American literatures

Wolf Island Discovering the Secrets of a Mythic Animal L. David Mech 2020 Fall

The world’s leading wolf expert describes the first years of a major study that transformed our understanding of one of nature’s most iconic creatures

The Silver Box An Enchantment Lake Mystery Margi Preus 2020 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

Capture American Pursuits and the Making of a New Animal Condition Antoine Traisnel 2020 Fall

Reading canonical works of the nineteenth century through the modern transformation of human–animal relations

Swede Hollow A Novel Ola Larsmo 2020 Fall

A riveting family saga immersed in the gritty, dark side of Swedish immigrant life in America in the early twentieth century

The Wedding Heard ’Round the World America’s First Gay Marriage Michael McConnell 2020 Fall

Forty-four years after two men married in a legal ceremony in Minnesota, the Supreme Court has decided the question first raised by these gay pioneers