Growing up on a farm in northern Minnesota, Beatrice Ojakangas learned to cook and bake on a wood-burning stove before she could read. Today she’s a James Beard Hall of Fame author and an expert on Scandinavian baking. In “Breakfast with Beatrice,” she returns to her Finnish roots for an exploration of the day’s most important meal.

Shotwell persuasively encourages her reader to accept that purity is a myth, and that if we want to live better lives--that is to say, more just lives, but also qualitatively better ones in a world that seems to be politically and environmentally deteriorating all around us--we ought to reject this myth in favor of the impure.

It was one of the greatest children’s literature exhibits in my lifetime, and yet it produced no catalog. How is that possible? How did NYPL manage to create its most popular exhibit in its history, and yet it left no trace in the world?

Rare is the book that can make Charles Baudelaire and UFO theorists make sense together in a productive juxtaposition.

When poet Allen Ginsberg journeyed to Cuba, the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Poland and Britain in 1964, homosexuality was illegal in most of the world. So was marijuana.

Lorna Landvik uses wisdom and her trademark humor to encourage readers to have a thoughtful response to the world and the people with whom they share it.

On Antoine Bousquet's THE EYE OF WAR.

A young woman crosses a cultural divide in search of her past.

Newly edited travel journals from 1965 show the poet infatuated and disillusioned with communist Cuba, Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union, and Poland

Elena Gorfinkel’s Lewd Looks: American Sexploitation Cinema in the 1960s maps the visual and industrial cultures of 1960s and 1970s American sexploitation cinema.

Feature at continuum: news from @umnlib.

A cosmological view that was formed and developed around the last three centuries BC, when a unified and centralized political order arose for the first time in the history of China, “resonance between heaven and mankind” provided legitimacy and guidance to the imperial power and its rulership.

This work is a must-read for those looking to better understand Ginsberg and his times.

Once Upon A Blog reviews THE BOOK OF ONE HUNDRED RIDDLES OF THE FAIRY BELLARIA.

Architectural historian Larry Millett reveals the history of a long-lost Minneapolis landmark in his new book, "Metropolitan Dreams."

Dallas Voice: New books explain long history in the understanding of gender identity.

Includes Nicole Seymour's BAD ENVIRONMENTALISM.

Includes Evelyne Grossman's THE ANGUISH OF THOUGHT.

A thought-provoking work that leads to no easy solutions while raising many questions about wealth and privilege within the GLBT community itself. Consider the subtitle.

This online forum includes an introduction by forum editor Lia Frederiksen; reviews by Natalie Oswin, Geraldine Pratt, and Farhang Rouhani; and a response from author David K. Seitz.

Includes Aubrey Anable's PLAYING WITH FEELINGS.

Choice recipes from THE GREAT MINNESOTA COOKIE BOOK reprinted at Wisconsin Public Radio.

This is an essential book for any kitchen shelf.

An admirably written book, fantastically accessible for readers with next to no knowledge of academic theory.

With Sarah Stonich.

A POET'S INCANTATORY DESCRIPTIONS OF HAVANA.