books and publications

Naturalization is a process that is typically celebrated as the end point on the path to U.S. citizenship. Immigrants choose to attach themselves to our nation, which extends to them its rights,...

At a calm trot, a horse’s hooves leave divots in the pale, rocky dirt. Under a brilliantly blue Arizona sky, one may wonder where the “tornado” from this artwork's title comes in. Then, the horse...

Citizens and writers remain hopeful in the face of environmental harms in “Reading Better States: Utopian Method and...

Poet Ángel García examines his disrupted family lineage in his new collection of poetry, seeking answers about where he came from...

The voyage of the HMS Challenger in the 1870s was a sprawling 3-1/2-year expedition to explore the world’s oceans. The scientists aboard the vessel collected 100,000 specimens of sea creatures,...

David Wright Faladé examines race, class, and gender through the eyes of a young college woman spending time in her small Texas...

David Wright Faladé, professor of creative writing in the Department of English, was recently published in The New Yorker. ...

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign English professor Janice Harrington examines the natural world, the...

An LAS alumna has published her first novel that explores the idea of being able to literally shape your ideal partner from scratch. Maggie Su (BA, ’13, creative writing/English) is the assistant...

The literature of extreme poverty during the Great Depression offered an aesthetic that matched the hopelessness and isolation of the unemployed and those living on the street. ...

John Milas’ journey as a writer has been far from typical, but those unique experiences helped shape his gripping gothic horror novel about a mysterious abandoned building in Afghanistan and the...

A new novel by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign English professor David Wright Faladé tells the story...

Creative writing professor Janice Harrington’s poetry collection, Yard Show, has earned a spot on the National Book Critics...

 English professor Corey Van Landingham’s new book of poems, “Reader, I,” looks at marriage, the tension between being an individual and part of a couple, and how to operate within the...

Perusing a used bookstore was nothing out of the ordinary for David Obuchowski (BA, ’01, English) and his wife, Sarah Pedry, but the excursion was...

A new book by Phillip B. Williams has its roots in his days at Illinois. The book, his first novel, stems from a story that Williams wrote for a short story writing contest while he was a student.

Professor Janice Harrington hopes that book on pioneering Black botanist inspires young readers to overcome obstacles and pay attention to the world around them.