Examines a constellation of post-9 11 novels that revolve around white middle-class male suburban...

'For several decades following the end of the Civil War, the most popular sport in the United Sta...

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

The Collaborative Artist's Book offers a rare glimpse into collaborations between poets and paint...

High Desert Blood unveils the conditions that led to the infamous 1980 Penitentiary of New Mexico...

Following World War II, women living in small towns and on farms across the Midwest woke every mo...

This book considers the full range of Jesmyn Ward's career thus far. Martyn Bone examines key the...

James Shea's collection deepens his exploration of the elegiac imagination, sending estranged spe...

On a summer evening in the 1990s, Anne learns that one of her husband's lovers is expecting, not ...

José Felipe Alvergue examines anger in American poetry, while reflecting on the permissible polic...

The Extremities!

'A four-part collection that moves through scenes of the natural world'

Love, Dirt

City of Clans

Brightening Glance

Writing Through Writer's Block

Flagrant, Self-Destructive Gestures tells the complete story of Johnson's fascinating life, his t...

Whitman's Southern Sojourn

Southern Stages

Theatre of Iraq Under Occupation, 2003-2011

What Mennonite Girls Are Good for

For This and Other Cruelties

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...

The poetic conversations inspired by Chicago have long been a vital part of America's literary la...

Drawing on correspondences and personal interviews with key figures in the innovative poetry and ...

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

By 1888, twenty years after the publication of 'Little Women, Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) was o...

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 ...

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

Wild lady's-slippers grow from Alaska, with the spotted lady's-slipper, 'Cypripedium guttatum,' t...

What is the relationship between aesthetics and activism, between art and community? By using a p...

Although some people refer to Iowa as flyover country, presidential candidates and political repo...

Readers everywhere fell for Elizabeth Corey, the irrepressible, independent, and fearless Bachelo...

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On the night of December 1,1900, Iowa farmer John Hossack was attacked and killed while he slept ...

Although less than 3% of the original vast landscape survives, the tallgrass prairie remains an A...

Includes poems by men and women ranging in age from their fifties to their eighties and hailing f...