Allegra Hyde's debut story collection, Of This New World, offers a menagerie of utopias: real, im...

For ten months of the year, the prairiechicken's drab colors allow it to disappear into the lands...

What Is Your Quest? examines the future of electronic literature in a world where tablets and e-r...

Now back in print with a new essay, this classic of Iowa history focuses on the Old Order Amish M...

35th Modern Language Association Prize for Contingent Faculty and Independent Scholars, Honorable...

Love, Dirt

Recent fiction is teeming with blocked writers: from John Updike's Henry Bech to Stephen King's P...

The year was 1988, and Denis Johnson was at a low point. He caught malaria on a reporting trip in...

Whitman's Southern Sojourn

Southern Stages

Theatre of Iraq Under Occupation, 2003-2011

What Mennonite Girls Are Good for

The state of Iowa is named for the Ioways, but most Iowans--and most Americans--know little about...

'Description: In popular media and scholarship, the default fan is often assumed to be white, Ang...

Superheroes have a sprawling, action packed history that predates Superman by decades and even ce...

High Ground Coward

Examines the role that language played at the turn of the nineteenth century as a marker of one's...

Quantifying Archaeology

A project of the Amana Arts Guild, Seasons of Plenty documents the history of a community ruled b...

''Letters from Togo 'is more than a travel book. From the window of her flat, Blake looks out on ...

In his convincing and highly accomplished fifth book, Ralph Burns draws on his deep practice and ...

For almost eight hundred years (100 BC - AD 650) Nasca artists modeled and painted the plants, an...

Just as more and more people enjoy watching birds and butterflies, watching the many shimmering d...

The Woods explores the lives of people in a small Vermont college town and its surrounding areas-...

Gardening with Native Plants in the Upper Midwest: Bringing the Tallgrass Prairie Home

The Penelope Project: An Arts-Based Odyssey to Change Elder Care

2023 Oregon Book Awards, finalist

Horace Porter's groundbreaking study addresses Ellison's jazz background, including his essays an...

Seventy-five black and white photos pay tribute to one of America's most enduring rural icons-the...

Landforms of Iowa

Set mainly in a small town in Alabama, the stories here ache with the relentless longing of the p...

In Whitman East and West, fifteen prominent scholars track the surprising ways in which Whitman's...

This study of six modernist poems by six different poets demonstrates the multiple facets of mode...

Meditations on mortality, modernity, and contemporary poetry, informed by the work of a large num...

Learning how to revise may well be the most excruciating part of writing - frequently it is what ...

Early in the twentieth century, drawing upon the hundreds of letters written to his father by stu...

Devoted conservationist, environmentalist, and explorer Robert Marshall (1901-1939) was chief of ...

The first comprehensive overview of the 12,000-year human history of the Upper Mississippi River ...

Contested Terrain explores suburban literature between two moments of domestic crisis: the housin...

Fan Sites explores why and how we experience film and television-related places, and what the gro...

'Celebrities depend upon fans to sustain their popularity and livelihood, and fans are happy to o...

Symptoms of the Self offers the first full study of the stage consumptive. In the nineteenth and ...

2023 Midwest Book Awards in Nonfiction - Nature, winner

The first book on the Jefferson highway, this covers its origin, history, and significance, as we...

Poetics of the Hive: Insect Metaphor in Literature

Historically, tallgrass prairie stretched from Canada to Texas, from central Kansas to Indiana. N...

Like the pilgrims in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales who pass the time telling stories while stran...

From 1843, when the first collections were made, until 1987, when an amateur botanist discovered ...