Literature

Solo Viola A Post-Exotic Novel Antoine Volodine 2021 Spring

A harrowing early novel by one of France’s most unusual contemporary writers

Yang Warriors Kao Kalia Yang 2021 Spring

Award-winning author Kao Kalia Yang delivers an inspiring tale of resourceful children confronting adversaries in a refugee camp

For the Love of Cod A Father and Son’s Search for Norwegian Happiness Eric Dregni 2021 Spring

A journey to find Norway’s supposed bliss makes for a comic travelogue that asks, seriously, what makes Norwegians so damn happy—and does it translate?

Outsiders Within Writing on Transracial Adoption Jane Jeong Trenka, Julia Chinyere Oparah and Sun Yung Shin, Editors 2020 Fall

Confronting trauma behind the transnational adoption system—now back in print

Training for Catastrophe Fictions of National Security after 9/11 Lindsay Thomas 2021 Spring

A timely, politically savvy examination of how impossible disasters shape the very real possibilities of our world

Lost Souls Honoré de Balzac 2020 Fall

The first new translation of Balzac’s 1847 novel Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes in half a century, fully annotated and with an extensive introduction

Contingent Figure Chronic Pain and Queer Embodiment Michael D. Snediker 2021 Spring

A masterful synthesis of literary readings and poetic reflections, making profound contributions to our understanding of chronic pain

Black Queer Flesh Rejecting Subjectivity in the African American Novel Alvin J. Henry 2020 Fall

A groundbreaking examination of how twentieth-century African American writers use queer characters to challenge and ultimately reject subjectivity

Nils Ingri d’Aulaire and Edgar Parin d’Aulaire 2021 Spring

A loving tale of a boy who dreams of becoming a cowboy while also embracing his Norwegian heritage

Olav Audunssøn I I. Vows Sigrid Undset 2020 Fall

The initial volume in the Nobel Prize–winning author’s tumultuous, epic story of medieval Norway—the first new English translation in nearly a century

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