Literature

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

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