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...

Southern Stages

Love, Dirt

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

Whitman's Southern Sojourn

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...

Featuring essays by twelve prominent American literature scholars, Roman Holidays explores the tr...

Black Metafiction examines the tradition of self-consciousness in African American literature. It...

Historians of midwestern railroading during the early part of the twentieth century have generall...

For William Blake, living is creating, conforming is death, and 'the imagination . . . is the Hum...

The Afterlives of Specimens: Science, Mourning, and Whitman's Civil War

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 ...

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The Vanishing Messiah: The Life and Resurrections of Francis Schlatter

The Rainy Season: Three Lives in the New South Africa

Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman are widely acknowledged as two of America's foremost nature poet...

The Men in My Country

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 ...

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

Revealing the miniature beauties hidden among the patches of prairie, woodland, and wetland that ...

Reveals the richness of poetry about the law. This anthology of law-related poetry assembles a co...

Christopher Bolin's stark and masterful debut collection records a deeply moving attempt to resto...