Literature

On the Wandering Paths Sylvain Tesson 2022 Spring

A walking journey through France’s vast interior becomes a meditation on both personal recovery and the role of history in the present—more than 425,000 copies sold in France

Dark Scenes from Damaged Earth The Gothic Anthropocene Justin D. Edwards, Rune Graulund and Johan Höglund, Editors 2022 Spring

An urgent volume of essays engages the Gothic to advance important perspectives on our geological era

Troll Magic Hidden Folk from the Mountains and Forests of Norway Theodor Kittelsen 2022 Spring

A collection of macabre and magical folklore from the “godfather” of the Norwegian troll

Seven Aunts Staci Lola Drouillard 2022 Spring

Part memoir, part cultural history, these memories of seven aunts holding home and family together tell a crucial, often overlooked story of women of the twentieth century

Noopiming The Cure for White Ladies Leanne Betasamosake Simpson 2022 Spring

The new novel from the author of As We Have Always Done, a poetic world-building journey into the power of Anishinaabe life and traditions amid colonialism

Rafferty’s Last Case A Minnesota Mystery Featuring Sherlock Holmes Larry Millett 2022 Spring

The ninth and final Minnesota mystery, in which Shadwell Rafferty, with the inimitable Sherlock Holmes, may have solved his own murder

Bim, Bam, Bop . . . and Oona Jacqueline Briggs Martin 2022 Spring

An irresistible read-aloud picture book, in which a little odd-duck-out discovers her unique strengths

Ahab Unbound Melville and the Materialist Turn Meredith Farmer and Jonathan D. S. Schroeder, Editors 2022 Spring

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

Cacaphonies The Excremental Canon of French Literature Annabel L. Kim 2022 Spring

Exploring why there is so much fecal matter in literary works that matter

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 Poetics of Cruising Queer Visual Culture from Whitman to Grindr 2022 Spring

A groundbreaking new history of urban cruising through the lenses of urban poets

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

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

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

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