“A literary page-turner. . . . Part Cormac McCarthy, part Tom Drury and Raymond Chandler, Kapcala has created a voice all his own.” —Brian Castleberry

An environmental humanist’s study of extractive capitalism and colonial occupation in Indian fiction.

Essays by the foremost labor historian of the Black experience in the Appalachian coalfields.

An engrossing and beautifully crafted memoir of imagination, obsession, and disaster from the couch of old-fashioned four-times-a-week psychoanalysis.
 

The remarkable autobiography of a Black woman evangelist.
 

Transnational perspectives on the relationship between nuclear energy and society.
 

Recounted with humor and honesty, Lester invites us into his life as he struggles with masculinity and searches for a place where he fits.
 

History at the intersection of healthcare, labor, and civil rights.
 

A personal remembrance from the preeminent chronicler of Black life in Appalachia.
 

Tells the fascinating story of the Red’s climbing community through interviews with the people who lived that history and considers how sustainable ecotourism might contribute to the region economically.
 

A classic book about Appalachian life and music, now updated with new material.
 

An oral history of the West Virginia Mine Wars published to coincide with the centennial of the Battle of Blair Mountain.
 

A newly discovered nineteenth-century novel about West Virginia breaking away from Virginia, set amid the cannel coal boom and featuring an interracial abolitionist movement.
 

A dreamlike, evocative reckoning with a lost epoch in popular culture—and with old, weird America.

Students are reading on screens more than ever—how can we teach them to be better digital readers?

Memoir about ballet and illness from a creative writing teacher whose career as a ballerina was stopped by rheumatoid arthritis.

What happens to teaching when you consider the whole body (and not just “brains on sticks”)?

A critical legal scholar uses feminist and environmental theory to sketch alternate futures for Appalachia.

Literary novel with a New York setting and a dash of speculative fiction, for fans of Colum McCann, Colm Toibin, and Dana Spiotta.