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The stories in this collection explore the burden, the power, and the nature of love between people who often feel misplaced and estranged from their deepest selves and the world, where they cannot find a home.

A teenage girl goes missing. When Hal, an intellectually disabled farmhand, returns from a hunting trip with a flimsy story about the blood in his truck and a dent near the headlight, Alma Costagan and her husband are forced to confront what Hal might be capable of.

Constitutes one of baseball's and the civil rights movement's great untold stories.

Dealing with all the ways love goes right and wrong, Marjorie Saiser's collection honors the challenges of holding firm to who we really are, as well as our connections to the natural world.

The St. Louis Commune of 1877 tells for the first time the entire and exciting story of the St. Louis Commune of 1877, when U.S. workers assumed political control of the city of St. Louis, Missouri, during the Great Railroad Strike.

Through ancient temples and the lush greenery of Thailand, to the confines of a stranger's bed and a devouring couch, This Jade World chronicles a year of mishap, exploration and experimentation, self-discovery, and eventually healing. It questions the very nature of love and heartbreak, uncovering the vulnerability of being human.

A collection of historical and contemporary research and essays, Antisemitism on the Rise looks at antisemitism in the interwar period and today and provides examples for how to effectively teach about antisemitism.

Robert V. Camuto sets out across modern Southern Italy in search of the "South-ness" that defined his youthful experience and views the world through wine, food, and families.

Randon Billings Noble has collected a range of lyric essays in a variety of forms that showcase the essay's openness to experimentation, reliance on authentic voice, and potential to explore complex subject matter.

In Lamentations Carol Kammen imagines the 1842 crossing of the first group of families to go to Oregon through the perspectives of the dozen women who made the journey.

At once a stirring adventure tale, a candid memoir, an offbeat natural history, and a smart literary chronicle, The Bear Doesn’t Know is a bear-lover’s book of wonders—rich in the joy, beauty, and inspiration found during a life well lived in bear country.

Cather Studies, Volume 13 explores the myriad ways Willa Cather's writing career was shaped by the decade she lived in Pittsburgh (1896-1906) and the artistic, professional, and personal connections that she made while sojourning there through 1916.

This anthology features work by and about queer, trans, and gender nonconforming Latinx communities, including immigrants and social dissidents who reflect on and write about diaspora and migratory movements while navigating geographical and embodied spaces in the United States.

National Races explores how politics interacted with transnational science in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to produce powerful, racialized national identity discourses. These essays demonstrate that the "national races" constructed by physical anthropologists had a vital historical role in racism, race science, and nationalism.

Writing Anthropologists, Sounding Primitives offers a contribution to the history of anthropology by synthesizing and applying insights from the history of writing, sound studies, and intermediality studies to poetry and scholarship produced by early twentieth-century U.S.-American cultural anthropologists.

French St. Louis places St. Louis, Missouri, in a broad colonial context, shedding light on its francophone history.

Hostages of Empire is a social, cultural, and political history of the colonial prisoners of war.

Pseudo-Memoir explores the return in the twentieth century of a genre that had largely gone out of fashion after the novel came of age in Europe in the eighteenth century.

Everybody’s Jonesin’ for Something takes an imagistic leap through the darker side of our search for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, perusing what we lose, what we leave behind, and what strange beauty we uncover.

Your Crib, My Qibla interrogates loss, the death of a child, and a father's pursuit of language able to articulate grief.

Gregg Lambert offers an unprecedented inquiry into the evolution of Deleuze's hopes for the revolutionary goals of minor literature and the related notion of the missing people in the conjuncture of contemporary critical theory.

Dinty W. Moore asks: What would the world be like if eternal damnation was not hanging constantly over our sheepish heads? Why do we persist in believing something that only makes us miserable?

Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poetry, The Rinehart Frames questions the boundaries of diaspora and narrative through a tethering of voices and forms that infringe upon monolithic categorizations of Blackness and what can be intersected with it.

The biography of Bobby Jones, the only golfer to win the Grand Slam and a key figure in America's Golden Age of Sports.