Combining personal narrative and climate change research, this catastrophic book is capable of shaking the most secure temperament to its core. The best way to look at "China... Read More

In the age of the locavore, Janssen’s text examines the movement from the perspective of the farmer, combining research with incisive, yet practical, analysis. The book begins... Read More

Gentle, lyrical and personal, this firsthand account of climate change will sway skeptics and inspire believers to activism. Cornelia Mutel, an Iowan ecologist, uses "A Sugar... Read More

Edward Hamlin masterfully plays the full spectrum of literary elements and devices to create globe-spanning fictional worlds bursting with color and life in this collection,... Read More

Wise beyond her years, Messitt explores with vivid resonance the failures and triumphs of three South African people. Life in post-apartheid South Africa has created many new... Read More

Ullrich’s photos and essays capture the tension between tradition and modernity in classic state fairs. The idea of a state fair evokes a certain sense of nostalgia, and... Read More

With sensitive, nuanced prose, Milliken engages our empathy for intuitive individuals who are capable of remarkable resilience. The twelve short stories in Kate Milliken’s If... Read More

Brothers William and Henry James are rightfully famous within their respective fields of philosophy/psychology and literature. But their influence on each other is seldom... Read More

The novelist David Foster Wallace took his own life on September 12, 2008. This single fact colors virtually everything written about his work since then, a fact acknowledged in... Read More

Critics may debate the exact period in history when women emerged as an influential force in publishing, but few will dispute the early twentieth-century impact of Susan... Read More

Ten plays. Ten decades. This is August Wilson’s legacy. Wilson, winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, is considered the greatest American playwright of the last half of the twentieth... Read More

If stories were songs, then "One Dog Happy" would surely be the most hummable of short fiction. Not just because the title story uses music—a minister croons “Make Someone... Read More