Literature
- Who Writes for Black Children? African American Children’s Literature before 1900 Katharine Capshaw and Anna Mae Duane, Editors 2017 Spring
- Innovative essays that challenge us to imagine African American children’s literature during the slavery and reconstruction eras
- Italian Chronicles Stendhal 2017 Spring
- Nine bloody, revenge-filled tales—several translated for the first time—from French writer Stendhal
- It Won’t Be Easy An Exceedingly Honest (and Slightly Unprofessional) Love Letter to Teaching Tom Rademacher 2017 Spring
- A frank and funny behind-the-scenes look at teaching from a hard-working and highly entertaining Teacher of the Year
- White Birch, Red Hawthorn A Memoir Nora Murphy 2017 Spring
- A personal investigation into the multigenerational cost of immigration and genocide in the American heartland
- Out of the Blue New Short Fiction from Iceland 2017 Spring
- A groundbreaking collection of fiction from Iceland’s best contemporary authors
- For All Waters Finding Ourselves in Early Modern Wetscapes Lowell Duckert 2017 Spring
- The Shakespearean era’s wet writers guide our eco-way today
- First Thought Conversations with Allen Ginsberg Michael Schumacher, Editor 2017 Spring
- The Beat Generation’s best-known poet, in previously uncollected interviews, on reading and writing, poetry and politics
- The Financial Imaginary Economic Mystification and the Limits of Realist Fiction Alison Shonkwiler 2017 Spring
- Exploring how contemporary realist fiction confronts the challenges of financial abstraction and the return to Gilded Age levels of inequality
- The Book of the Dead Shinobu Orikuchi 2016 Fall
- The first complete English translation of a Japanese literary masterpiece
- Indirect Action Schizophrenia, Epilepsy, AIDS, and the Course of Health Activism Lisa Diedrich 2016 Fall
- The interconnectedness of illness, thought, and activism prior to the arrival of AIDS in the United States
- Like Clockwork Steampunk Pasts, Presents, and Futures Rachel A. Bowser and Brian Croxall, Editors 2016 Fall
- From Dragon*Con to IBM’s big data and neo-Victorianism to disability studies—the fascinating rise of an international subculture
- Anti-Book On the Art and Politics of Radical Publishing Nicholas Thoburn 2016 Fall
- A major new look at experimental political writing and publishing
- Living Cargo How Black Britain Performs Its Past Steven Blevins 2016 Fall
- A sweeping survey of the historical turn in contemporary black British art and literature
- Recovery John Berryman 2016 Fall
- Renowned poet John Berryman’s first and only novel, unfinished at the time of his suicide, about “the disease called alcoholism”
- The War Came Home with Him A Daughter’s Memoir Catherine Madison 2016 Fall
- A poignant look at the suppressed grief and thwarted love that forever alter a family when a soldier brings his war home