Literature

Scenarios Aguirre, the Wrath of God; Every Man for Himself and God Against All; Land of Silence and Darkness; Fitzcarraldo Werner Herzog 2017 Fall

The first in a series: Urtexts of the quintessential early films of Werner Herzog

Infinite Variety The Life and Legend of the Marchesa Casati, The Ultimate Edition Scot D. Ryersson and Michael Orlando Yaccarino 2017 Fall

The biography of the most dazzling artistic and fashion muse of the twentieth century—in a fully revised and spectacularly illustrated edition

We Know How This Ends Living while Dying Bruce H. Kramer 2017 Fall

Surprising lessons in finding joy and personal growth in the last months of life

Enchantment Lake A Northwoods Mystery Margi Preus 2017 Fall

What’s wild in the northwoods turns out to be mostly human, when seventeen-year-old Francie is drawn into the strange mysteries threatening her great aunts’ Minnesota Up North world

Ice-Out Mary Casanova 2017 Fall

A young man’s future—and a budding romance—get caught up in bootlegging, blackmail, corruption, and murder along the U.S.–Canadian border in the 1920s

The Sacred Era A Novel Yoshio Aramaki 2017 Spring

A brilliant work of speculative fiction, blending science and metaphysics, by a Japanese master of the 1970s New Wave

Who Writes for Black Children? African American Children’s Literature before 1900 Katharine Capshaw and Anna Mae Duane, Editors 2017 Spring

Innovative essays that challenge us to imagine African American children’s literature during the slavery and reconstruction eras

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

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