Law and Order in Buffalo Bill’s Country by Mark R. Ellis “It is extremely well researched and presented in layman’s terms that all of us nonlawyers can understand.”—Francis Moul, Lincoln Journal Star Continue reading Praise for Law and Order in Buffalo Bill’s Country

The Best of All Seasons: Fifty Years as a Montana Hunter by Dan Aadland “Aadland’s hunting adventures are well drawn in prose that is entertaining and thoughtful—a hard combination to accomplish. . . . The Best of All Seasons is a fine, boots-on-the-ground hunting book.”—Gray’s Sporting Journal Read earlier praise for The Best of All Seasons at http://nebraskapress.typepad.com/university_of_nebraska_pr/2007/11/praise-for-the-.html. Continue reading More Praise for The Best of All Seasons

A Lethal Dose of Trivia New this month from the University of Nebraska Press, Violent Affect: Literature, Cinema, and Critique after Representation by Marco Abel presents a radical new theory on the affect of violence in literature and cinema: that violence is all-pervasive by ontological necessity. To prove this theory, Abel analyzes literary and cinematic works such as those by Don DeLillo, Bret Easton Ellis, Mary Harron, Patricia Highsmith, the Coen Brothers, and Robert DeNiro. As a nod to Abel’s chilling work, today’s “Tuesday Trivia” focuses on violence and literature. Careful—these questions are murderously difficult. Match the quote on violence … Continue reading Tuesday Trivia: January 22, 2008

Good Neighbors, Bad Times: Echoes of My Father’s German Village by Mimi Schwartz “[A]n eloquent and affectionate account. . . . Schwartz’s tone is gentle, her prose brilliantly clear and her insights keen.”—Kirkus Reviews “A fascinating picture, atypical of so much written on the subject. Blessed with good antennae and a skeptical mind, Ms. Schwartz is not an innocent abroad. Never gullible or credulous, but open to the evidence of her own eyes and ears, she is an ideal guide to her father’s lost world, which for so long she resisted. . . . It is a measure of her … Continue reading Praise for Good Neighbors, Bad Times

In Praise of Flattery by Willis Goth Regier “[A]n elegant analysis.”—Wall Street Journal Read earlier praise for In Praise of Flattery at http://nebraskapress.typepad.com/university_of_nebraska_pr/2007/11/praise-for-in-p.html. Continue reading More Praise for In Praise of Flattery

Taking Assimilation to Heart: Marriages of White Women and Indigenous Men in the United States and Australia, 1887-1937 by Katherine Ellinghaus “[A] fascinating account . . . . [A] meaningful contribution to our understandings of the histories of colonialism and, in particular, of how the processes of colonialism produced similar power relations across many different times and places.”—Lilith Continue reading Praise for Taking Assimilation to Heart

The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1855-1872: Volumes I and II edited by Pierre Walker and Greg Zacharias “[This] collected edition of James’s letters was needed. . . . These two volumes . . . . throw much light on [Henry James’] relationship with his family and his country of birth while at the same time helping us towards some understanding of his health problems, such as they were. Some of the letters from Italy are small masterpieces of description; they are alert and sensitive and full of astute judgments. Sometimes, too, James is funny, irreverent and outspoken.”—Colm Tóibín, London … Continue reading More Praise for The Complete Letters of Henry James