Nakadate (English, Iowa State University) surveys ongoing themes in the work of author Jane Smiley. The study is organized around close readings of Smiley's major fiction, but also looks at some of he
During World War II, 110,000 Japanese Americans were removed from their homes and incarcerated by the U.S. government. In Looking After Minidoka the "internment camp" years become a prism for understa
Long recognized as one of America's foremost men of letters, Robert Penn Warren continues to dazzle us with his many-sided genius. In the haunting images of his poetry, the narrative power of his fict
