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Playing with the Book Victorian Movable Picture Books and the Child Reader Hannah Field 2019 Spring: A beautifully illustrated exploration of how Victorian novelty picture books reshape the ways children read and interact with texts
Archives Andrew Lison, Marcel Mars, Tomislav Medak and Rick Prelinger 2019 Fall: How digital networks and services bring the issues of archives out of the realm of institutions and into the lives of everyday users
Philosophy of New Music Theodor W. Adorno Robert Hullot-Kentor, Editor 2019 Fall: An indispensable key to Adorno’s influential oeuvre—now in paperback
Burgers in Blackface Anti-Black Restaurants Then and Now Naa Oyo A. Kwate 2019 Fall: A powerful account, and rebuke, of historical and contemporary racism in restaurant branding
Beyond Education Radical Studying for Another World Eli Meyerhoff 2019 Fall: A bold call to deromanticize education and reframe universities as terrains of struggle between alternative modes of studying and world-making
Beyond the Meme Development and Structure in Cultural Evolution Alan C. Love and William C. Wimsatt, Editors 2019 Spring: Interdisciplinary perspectives on cultural evolution that reject meme theory in favor of a complex understanding of dynamic change over time
The Eloquent Screen A Rhetoric of Film Gilberto Perez 2019 Spring: A lifetime of cinematic writing culminates in this breathtaking statement on film’s unique ability to move us
Daring to Be Bad Radical Feminism in America 1967-1975, Thirtieth Anniversary Edition 2019 Fall: An award-winning and canonical history of radical feminism, whose activist heat and intellectual audacity powered second-wave feminism—30th anniversary edition
Everyday Equalities Making Multicultures in Settler Colonial Cities Ruth Fincher, Kurt Iveson, Helga Leitner and Valerie Preston 2019 Fall: A timely new look at coexisting without assimilating in multicultural cities
How to Do Things with Sensors Jennifer Gabrys 2019 Fall: An investigation of how-to guides for sensor technologies
Archives of Infamy Foucault on State Power in the Lives of Ordinary Citizens Nancy Luxon, Editor 2019 Spring: Expanding the insights of Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault’s Disorderly Families into policing, public order, (in)justice, and daily life
Standing with Standing Rock Voices from the #NoDAPL Movement Nick Estes and Jaskiran Dhillon, Editors 2019 Spring: Dispatches of radical political engagement from people taking a stand against the Dakota Access Pipeline
The Drink That Made Wisconsin Famous Beer and Brewing in the Badger State Doug Hoverson 2019 Spring: From grain to glass—a complete illustrated history of brewing and breweries in the state more famous for beer than any other
Town Hall Meetings and the Death of Deliberation Jonathan Beecher Field 2019 Fall: Tracing the erosion of democratic norms in the US and the conditions that make it possible
This Wound Is a World Billy-Ray Belcourt 2019 Fall: The new edition of a prize-winning memoir-in-poems, a meditation on life as a queer Indigenous man—available for the first time in the United States
The Political Arrays of American Indian Literary History James H. Cox 2019 Fall: Bringing fresh insight to a century of writing by Native Americans
The Complete and Original Norwegian Folktales of Asbjørnsen and Moe Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe 2019 Fall: A new, definitive English translation of the celebrated story collection regarded as a landmark of Norwegian literature and culture
Medical Technics Don Ihde 2020 Spring: A personal account of the aging body and advanced technologies by a preeminent philosopher of technology
Organize Timon Beyes, Reinhold Martin and Lisa Conrad 2019 Fall: A pioneering systematic inquiry into—and mapping of—the field of media and organization
Vital Forms Biological Art, Architecture, and the Dependencies of Life Jennifer Johung 2019 Fall: Shows how the intersection of biotech, art, and architecture are transforming the world we live in
Sensations of History Animation and New Media Art James J. Hodge 2019 Fall: A phenomenological investigation into new media artwork and its relationship to history
Cyclescapes of the Unequal City Bicycle Infrastructure and Uneven Development John G. Stehlin 2019 Spring: A critical look at the political economy of urban bicycle infrastructure in the United States
Laurentian Divide A Novel Sarah Stonich 2019 Fall: Poignant portrayals of life on the edge in northern Minnesota border country—now in paper
Jack and the Ghost Chan Poling 2019 Fall: A gothic, lyrical evocation of a shipwreck, ghosts, and lost—and found—love in a North Shore town
What God Is Honored Here? Writings on Miscarriage and Infant Loss by and for Native Women and Women of Color Shannon Gibney and Kao Kalia Yang, Editors 2019 Fall: Native women and women of color poignantly share their pain, revelations, and hope after experiencing the traumas of miscarriage and infant loss
Avant-Garde in the Cornfields Architecture, Landscape, and Preservation in New Harmony Ben Nicholson and Michelangelo Sabatino, Editors 2019 Spring: A close examination of an iconic small town that gives boundless insights into architecture, landscape, preservation, and philanthropy
When Time Warps The Lived Experience of Gender, Race, and Sexual Violence Megan Mae Burke 2019 Fall: An inquiry into the phenomenology of “woman” based in the relationship between lived time and sexual violence
Black Bourgeois Class and Sex in the Flesh Candice M. Jenkins 2019 Fall: Exploring the forces that keep black people vulnerable even amid economically privileged lives
Homesickness Of Trauma and the Longing for Place in a Changing Environment Ryan Hediger 2019 Fall: Introducing a posthumanist concept of nostalgia to analyze steadily widening themes of animality, home, travel, slavery, shopping, and war in U.S. literature after 1945
Queering Colonial Natal Indigeneity and the Violence of Belonging in Southern Africa T. J. Tallie 2019 Fall: How were indigenous social practices deemed queer and aberrant by colonial forces?
Variations on Media Thinking Siegfried Zielinski 2019 Fall: A diverse, enriching volume of media analysis from a pioneering thinker in the field
An Ecotopian Lexicon Matthew Schneider-Mayerson and Brent Ryan Bellamy, Editors 2019 Fall: Presents thirty novel terms that do not yet exist in English to envision ways of responding to the environmental challenges of our generation
Discourse, Figure Jean-François Lyotard 2020 Spring: Lyotard’s earliest major work, available in English for the first time
The Price of Nice How Good Intentions Maintain Educational Inequity Angelina E. Castagno, Editor 2019 Fall: How being “nice” in school and university settings works to reinforce racialized, gendered, and (dis)ability-related inequities in education and society
The Lost Brothers A Family’s Decades-Long Search Jack El-Hai 2019 Fall: The dread, the drama, and the hope of a break in one of the country’s oldest active missing-child investigations
Spoiler Alert A Critical Guide Aaron Jaffe 2020 Spring: All of this information at our fingertips—and we might not need any of it
Suspect Communities Anti-Muslim Racism and the Domestic War on Terror Nicole Nguyen 2019 Fall: The first major qualitative study of “countering violent extremism” in key U.S. cities
Bleak Joys Aesthetics of Ecology and Impossibility Matthew Fuller and Olga Goriunova 2019 Fall: A philosophical and cultural distillation of the bleak joys in today’s ambivalent ecologies and patterns of life
Aesthesis and Perceptronium On the Entanglement of Sensation, Cognition, and Matter Alexander Wilson 2019 Fall: A new speculative ontology of aesthetics
Johnny’s Pheasant Cheryl Minnema 2019 Fall: An encounter with a pheasant (which may or may not be sleeping) takes a surprising turn in this sweetly serious and funny story of a Native American boy and his grandma
The Alchemy of Meth A Decomposition Jason Pine 2019 Fall: Meth cooks practice late industrial alchemy—transforming base materials, like lithium batteries and camping fuel, into gold
Uproarious How Feminists and Other Subversive Comics Speak Truth Cynthia Willett and Julie Willett 2019 Fall: A radical new approach to humor, where traditional targets become its agents
Professor Berman The Last Lecture of Minnesota’s Greatest Public Historian Hy Berman 2019 Fall: Behind the scenes of Minnesota history, by way of the engaging life story of the state’s best-known and beloved political observer
Scenarios III Stroszek; Nosferatu, Phantom of the Night; Where the Green Ants Dream; Cobra Verde Werner Herzog 2019 Fall: For the first time in English, and in his signature prose poetry, the film scripts of four of Werner Herzog’s early works
The Trial of the Edmund Fitzgerald Eyewitness Accounts from the U.S. Coast Guard Hearings 2019 Fall: A documentary drawn from testimony at the Coast Guard’s official inquiry looks anew at one of the most storied, and mysterious, shipwrecks in American history
From Montaigne to Montaigne Claude Lévi-Strauss Emmanuel Désveaux, Editor 2019 Fall: Two previously unpublished lectures charting the renowned anthropologist’s intellectual engagement with the sixteenth-century French essayist Michel de Montaigne
Tony Oliva The Life and Times of a Minnesota Twins Legend Thom Henninger 2020 Spring: The astounding success and personal struggle of the Twins’ beloved outfielder and batting champion—from his arrival from Cuba at age twenty-two to the present
Sound, Image, Silence Art and the Aural Imagination in the Atlantic World Michael Gaudio 2019 Fall: A visionary new approach to the Americas during the age of colonization, made by engaging with the aural aspects of supposedly “silent” images
A to Zåäö Playing with History at the American Swedish Institute Nate Christopherson and Tara Sweeney 2019 Fall: A playful picture-book tour of the Swedish alphabet, in which curious characters explore the American Swedish Institute
LatinX Claudia Milian 2020 Spring: Nationality is not enough to understand “Latin”-descended populations in the United States