Literature

None of This Is Normal The Fiction of Jeff VanderMeer Benjamin J. Robertson 2018 Fall

How the otherworldly worlds created by the author of the Southern Reach Trilogy speak to—and even affect—our own

Johnny’s Pheasant Cheryl Minnema 2019 Fall

An encounter with a pheasant (which may or may not be sleeping) takes a surprising turn in this sweetly serious and funny story of a Native American boy and his grandma

Bad Environmentalism Irony and Irreverence in the Ecological Age Nicole Seymour 2018 Fall

Traces a tradition of ironic and irreverent environmentalism, asking us to rethink the movement’s reputation for gloom and doom

The Robotic Imaginary The Human and the Price of Dehumanized Labor Jennifer Rhee 2018 Fall

Tracing the connections between human-like robots and AI at the site of dehumanization and exploited labor

The Book of One Hundred Riddles of the Fairy Bellaria Charles Godfrey Leland 2018 Fall

Reviving a lost classic of American fairy–tale literature

Hush Hush, Forest Mary Casanova 2018 Fall

Lyrical words and elegant woodcuts capture the quiet beauty of the forest as day fades to night and autumn gives way to the North Woods winter

Scenarios II Signs of Life; Even Dwarfs Started Small; Fata Morgana; Heart of Glass Werner Herzog 2018 Fall

The second in a series: the master filmmaker’s prose scenarios for four of his notable films

Dead Man’s Rapids William Durbin and Barbara Durbin 2018 Fall

The further adventures of a boy discovering the challenges and the humor of a log drive in Minnesota’s north woods in 1899

Fearless Ivan and His Faithful Horse Double-Hump A Russian Folk Tale Pyotr Yershov and Jack Zipes 2018 Spring

A classic Russian tale retold for our time by an eminent folklorist

Circulating Queerness Before the Gay and Lesbian Novel Natasha Hurley 2018 Spring

A new history of the queer novel shows its role in constructing gay and lesbian lives

Hybrid Child A Novel Mariko Ōhara 2018 Spring

A classic of Japanese speculative fiction that blurs the line between consumption and creation when a cyborg assumes the form and spirit of a murdered child

Isabelle Day Refuses to Die of a Broken Heart Jane St. Anthony 2018 Spring

How can Isabelle ever express to Margaret and Grace how grateful she is for their friendship, just when she needed it most?

Wild Child Intensive Parenting and Posthumanist Ethics Naomi Morgenstern 2018 Spring

Exploring how the figure of the “wild child” in contemporary fiction grapples with contemporary cultural anxieties about reproductive ethics and the future of humanity