Literature

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

d’Aulaires’ Book of Norwegian Folktales 2016 Spring

A collection of twenty-one classic Norwegian folktales from two Caldecott-honored authors and illustrators

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