Literature

The Road Back to Sweetgrass: A Novel The Road Back to Sweetgrass A Novel Linda LeGarde Grover 2016 Spring
A powerful debut novel of love, hardship, and family bonds on an American Indian reservation—from the author of the award-winning short story collection The Dance Boots
Unconditional Equality: Gandhi's Religion of Resistance Unconditional Equality Gandhi's Religion of Resistance Ajay Skaria 2016 Spring
The first book on Mahatma Gandhi’s philosophy to be informed by postcolonialism
Militarizing the Environment: Climate Change and the Security State Militarizing the Environment Climate Change and the Security State Robert P. Marzec 2016 Spring
How ideas of coexisting with the planet are being replaced by a militarized vision of adaptation
Shipwreck Modernity: Ecologies of Globalization, 1550–1719 Shipwreck Modernity Ecologies of Globalization, 1550–1719 Steve Mentz 2015 Fall
The familiar story of shipwreck revealed as an allegory of ecological catastrophe
Tracks in the Wild Tracks in the Wild Betsy Bowen 2015 Fall
A beautiful children’s book detailing Minnesota’s northwoods animals and their tracks
Diaboliques: Six Tales of Decadence Diaboliques Six Tales of Decadence Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly 2015 Fall
“Literature doesn’t express even half of the crimes that society commits behind closed doors.” —Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly
Only the Dead Only the Dead Vidar Sundstøl 2015 Fall
A psychological thriller that deepens the mystery begun in the prize-winning first volume of Vidar Sundstøl’s internationally best-selling Minnesota Trilogy
Best to Laugh: A Novel Best to Laugh A Novel Lorna Landvik 2015 Fall
Minnesota funny girl takes Hollywood by storm in inimitable Lorna Landvik style
Grace Above All Grace Above All Jane St. Anthony 2015 Fall
The touching companion novel to The Summer Sherman Loved Me
The Summer Sherman Loved Me The Summer Sherman Loved Me Jane St. Anthony 2015 Fall
A middle grade novel about love, family relationships, and what it means to grow up
The Poetics of Information Overload: From Gertrude Stein to Conceptual Writing The Poetics of Information Overload From Gertrude Stein to Conceptual Writing Paul Stephens 2015 Spring
What does avant-garde poetry have to say about information technology? A lot.
Dead Letters Sent: Queer Literary Transmission Dead Letters Sent Queer Literary Transmission Kevin Ohi 2015 Spring
Proposes a new model of literary transmission and tradition
Of Walking in Ice: Munich–Paris, 23 November—14 December 1974 Of Walking in Ice Munich–Paris, 23 November—14 December 1974 Werner Herzog 2015 Spring
Filmmaker Werner Herzog’s remarkable account of his journey on foot from Munich to Paris
Imagine the Sound: Experimental African American Literature after Civil Rights Imagine the Sound Experimental African American Literature after Civil Rights Carter Mathes 2015 Spring
Examines the use of sound in the works of African American writers during the post–Civil Rights era
The American Isherwood The American Isherwood James J. Berg and Chris Freeman, Editors 2014 Fall
Shines a critical spotlight on the American life of the famed author