Literature

Capture American Pursuits and the Making of a New Animal Condition Antoine Traisnel 2020 Fall

Reading canonical works of the nineteenth century through the modern transformation of human–animal relations

Swede Hollow A Novel Ola Larsmo 2020 Fall

A riveting family saga immersed in the gritty, dark side of Swedish immigrant life in America in the early twentieth century

The Wedding Heard ’Round the World America’s First Gay Marriage Michael McConnell 2020 Fall

Forty-four years after two men married in a legal ceremony in Minnesota, the Supreme Court has decided the question first raised by these gay pioneers

The Journal of Otto Peltonen A Finnish Immigrant Story William Durbin 2020 Fall

A portrait of the Finnish immigrant experience in Minnesota during the early twentieth century—now in paperback

Chronicles of a Radical Hag (with Recipes) A Novel Lorna Landvik 2020 Fall

A bittersweet, seriously funny novel of a life, a small town, and a key to our troubled times traced through a newspaper columnist’s half-century of taking in, and taking on, the world

In the Night of Memory A Novel Linda LeGarde Grover 2020 Fall

Two lost sisters find family, and themselves, among the voices of an Ojibwe reservation

The Shared Room Kao Kalia Yang 2020 Spring

A family gradually moves forward after the loss of a child—a story for readers of all ages

Isherwood in Transit James J. Berg and Chris Freeman, Editors 2020 Spring

New perspectives on Christopher Isherwood as a searching and transnational writer

Listening Interviews, 1970–1989 Jonathan Cott 2020 Spring

A wide-ranging collection of interviews and profiles from twenty years of Jonathan Cott’s remarkable writings

Lost Illusions Honoré de Balzac 2020 Spring

A new annotated translation of the keystone of Balzac’s Comédie Humaine—a sweeping narrative of corrupted idealism in a cynical urban milieu

The Shapes of Fancy Reading for Queer Desire in Early Modern Literature Christine Varnado 2020 Spring

Exploring forms of desire unaccounted for in previous histories of sexuality

What a Library Means to a Woman Edith Wharton and the Will to Collect Books Sheila Liming 2020 Spring

Examining the personal library and the making of self

Pipers at the Gates of Dawn The Wisdom of Children’s Literature Jonathan Cott 2020 Spring

Jonathan Cott’s reflections and conversations with six celebrated children’s authors—now in a new edition

Fishing! A Novel Sarah Stonich 2020 Spring

A hilarious saga of fishing, family, and three generations of tough, independent women—the first in a trilogy

The Monster Theory Reader Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Editor 2020 Spring

A collection of scholarship on monsters and their meaning—across genres, disciplines, methodologies, and time—from foundational texts to the most recent contributions

Coming soon

University of Minnesota Press

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