Literature

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

South American Journals January–July 1960 2019 Fall

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

What God Is Honored Here? Writings on Miscarriage and Infant Loss by and for Native Women and Women of Color Shannon Gibney and Kao Kalia Yang, Editors 2019 Fall

Native women and women of color poignantly share their pain, revelations, and hope after experiencing the traumas of miscarriage and infant loss

Swede Hollow A Novel Ola Larsmo 2019 Fall

An award-winning and best-selling epic family history and gritty depiction of the darker side of Swedish immigrant life in America

The Complete and Original Norwegian Folktales of Asbjørnsen and Moe 2019 Fall

A new, definitive English translation of the celebrated story collection regarded as a landmark of Norwegian literature and culture

This Wound Is a World 2019 Fall

The new edition of a prize-winning memoir-in-poems, a meditation on life as a queer Indigenous man—available for the first time in the United States

Glissant and the Middle Passage Philosophy, Beginning, Abyss John E. Drabinski 2019 Spring

A reevaluation of Édouard Glissant that centers on the catastrophe of the Middle Passage and creates deep, original theories of trauma and Caribbeanness

The Collected Poems of Édouard Glissant Édouard Glissant Jeff Humphries, Editor 2019 Spring

The complete poems of the finalist for the Nobel Prize in Literature—now in paper

Clearing Out A Novel Helene Uri 2019 Spring

In a masterful blend of fiction and autobiography, a Norwegian novelist sends her character to the far north to learn what she can about their Sami ancestry

Playing with the Book Victorian Movable Picture Books and the Child Reader Hannah Field 2019 Spring

A beautifully illustrated exploration of how Victorian novelty picture books reshape the ways children read and interact with texts

Magical Realism for Non-Believers A Memoir of Finding Family Anika Fajardo 2019 Spring

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

The Clue in the Trees An Enchantment Lake Mystery Margi Preus 2019 Spring

Francie returns to Enchantment Lake looking for answers, only to get dragged into a murder mystery she might not survive

In the Night of Memory A Novel Linda LeGarde Grover 2019 Spring

Two lost sisters find family, and themselves, among the voices of an Ojibwe reservation

The Lost Forest Phyllis Root 2019 Spring

The story of a forest “lost” by a surveying error—and all the flora and fauna to be found there

Chronicles of a Radical Hag (with Recipes) A Novel Lorna Landvik 2019 Spring

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