John Okada’s 1957 novel No-No Boy, his only full-length work, was the first novel by a Japanese American to grapple with the aftermath of internment during World War II. Edited by Frank Abe, Greg Robinson, and Floyd Cheung, "John... Read More

Mark Twain famously spent his later years writing his autobiography, which per his instructions was published a full century after his death, but he always spun stories about his life with varying degrees of accuracy. In the lengthy and... Read More

Stories have stories, and when these stories are about stories like To Kill a Mockingbird or Frankenstein or Lolita or Charlotte’s Web or another classic, beloved novel, those stories take on great meaning. Of Infinite Jest, in an... Read More

"Flora of Middle-Earth" resides at the intersection of the mundane and the fantastical. An ambitious labor of love, Flora of Middle-Earth: Plants of J. R. R. Tolkien’s Legendarium, by Walter S. Judd and Graham A. Judd, marries science... Read More

Looser’s work lovingly explores how Austen became a permanent fixture in classic English literature. Devoney Looser’s fascinating "The Making of Jane Austen" excavates the trends, politics, and tastes that shaped Austen’s legacy.... Read More

The investigators become the investigated in this illuminating examination of the inner lives of three beloved detective-fiction writers. An illuminating glimpse into the psyches of three prominent American detective novelists,... Read More

"Revising Genesis" dances with disciplines ranging from literary criticism to the sciences. James Quatro sets out on an interesting and complicated eisegetical quest with "Revising Genesis", an ambitious work that endeavors to show that... Read More