Literature
- 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
- The Journal of Otto Peltonen A Finnish Immigrant Story William Durbin 2020 Fall
- A portrait of the Finnish immigrant experience in Minnesota during the early twentieth century—now in paperback
- Chronicles of a Radical Hag (with Recipes) A Novel Lorna Landvik 2020 Fall
- A bittersweet, seriously funny novel of a life, a small town, and a key to our troubled times traced through a newspaper columnist’s half-century of taking in, and taking on, the world
- In the Night of Memory A Novel Linda LeGarde Grover 2020 Fall
- Two lost sisters find family, and themselves, among the voices of an Ojibwe reservation
- The Shared Room Kao Kalia Yang 2020 Spring
- A family gradually moves forward after the loss of a child—a story for readers of all ages
- Isherwood in Transit James J. Berg and Chris Freeman, Editors 2020 Spring
- New perspectives on Christopher Isherwood as a searching and transnational writer
- Lost Illusions Honoré de Balzac 2020 Spring
- A new annotated translation of the keystone of Balzac’s Comédie Humaine—a sweeping narrative of corrupted idealism in a cynical urban milieu
- Listening Interviews, 1970–1989 Jonathan Cott 2020 Spring
- A wide-ranging collection of interviews and profiles from twenty years of Jonathan Cott’s remarkable writings
- The Shapes of Fancy Reading for Queer Desire in Early Modern Literature Christine Varnado 2020 Spring
- Exploring forms of desire unaccounted for in previous histories of sexuality
- What a Library Means to a Woman Edith Wharton and the Will to Collect Books Sheila Liming 2020 Spring
- Examining the personal library and the making of self
- Pipers at the Gates of Dawn The Wisdom of Children’s Literature Jonathan Cott 2020 Spring
- Jonathan Cott’s reflections and conversations with six celebrated children’s authors—now in a new edition
- Fishing! A Novel Sarah Stonich 2020 Spring
- A hilarious saga of fishing, family, and three generations of tough, independent women—the first in a trilogy
- The Monster Theory Reader Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Editor 2020 Spring
- A collection of scholarship on monsters and their meaning—across genres, disciplines, methodologies, and time—from foundational texts to the most recent contributions
- How Not to Make a Human Pets, Feral Children, Worms, Sky Burial, Oysters Karl Steel 2019 Fall
- From pet keeping to sky burials, a posthuman and ecocritical interrogation of and challenge to human particularity in medieval texts
- Resisting Dialogue Modern Fiction and the Future of Dissent Juan Meneses 2019 Fall
- A bold new critique of dialogue as a method of eliminating dissent