Literature

So Much to Be Done The Writings of Breast Cancer Activist Barbara Brenner Barbara Brenner Barbara Sjoholm, Editor 2016 Spring

Political and inspiring, personal and influential—the writings of Barbara Brenner, who transformed the way we look at breast cancer

The Age of Lovecraft Carl H. Sederholm and Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Editors 2016 Spring

The first sustained look at Lovecraft in relation to twenty-first-century critical theory and culture

Wake Up, Island Mary Casanova 2016 Spring

In a picture book for all ages, lyrical language and elegant woodcuts celebrate the waking natural world on a North Woods island

The Ravens Vidar Sundstøl 2016 Spring

The final installment of the award-winning Minnesota Trilogy by the celebrated Norwegian mystery writer

The Road Back to Sweetgrass A Novel Linda LeGarde Grover 2016 Spring

A powerful debut novel of love, hardship, and family bonds on an American Indian reservation—from the author of the award-winning short story collection The Dance Boots

Unconditional Equality Gandhi's Religion of Resistance Ajay Skaria 2016 Spring

The first book on Mahatma Gandhi’s philosophy to be informed by postcolonialism

The Wedding Heard ’Round the World America’s First Gay Marriage Michael McConnell 2016 Spring

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

Militarizing the Environment Climate Change and the Security State Robert P. Marzec 2016 Spring

How ideas of coexisting with the planet are being replaced by a militarized vision of adaptation

Shipwreck Modernity Ecologies of Globalization, 1550–1719 Steve Mentz 2015 Fall

The familiar story of shipwreck revealed as an allegory of ecological catastrophe

Tracks in the Wild Betsy Bowen 2015 Fall

A beautiful children’s book detailing Minnesota’s northwoods animals and their tracks

Diaboliques Six Tales of Decadence Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly 2015 Fall

“Literature doesn’t express even half of the crimes that society commits behind closed doors.” —Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly

Only the Dead Vidar Sundstøl 2015 Fall

A psychological thriller that deepens the mystery begun in the prize-winning first volume of Vidar Sundstøl’s internationally best-selling Minnesota Trilogy