Book reviews
Check out the latest reviews of University of Minnesota Press books.
- BGSU scholar Rebecca Kinney dissects the myth of Detroit’s death & resurrection
- Rebecca Kinney only realized she should write about her hometown of Detroit when she was living to the West Coast.
- Bibliosaurus Text reviews Stories from Jonestown
- Review of Leigh Fondakowski's new book.
- Biden appoints Aimi Hamraie to U.S. Access Board
- Dr. Aimi Hamraie (they/them) is a disabled designer and scholar, with expertise in architectural and digital media accessibility. They are the author of Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability (University of Minnesota Press, 2017), a history of the Universal Design movement and accessibility standards in the United States.
- Biographile: 6 Biographical Windows Into New York City’s Art and Music Scene
- Including Ellen Willis's BEGINNING TO SEE THE LIGHT.
- Birdman of Lauderdale review of Twelve Owls
- TWELVE OWLS by Laura Erickson and Betsy Bowen reviewed on this ornithology blog.
- Birdman of Lauderdale reviews Hawk Ridge
- "Delightful, informative and humorous."
- Bitch magazine: Dykes, direct action, and eating fire
- Review of Kelly Cogswell's EATING FIRE
- Bitch Media: 10 Essential Books About Writing
- Written in a bare, stream-of-consciousness style, these five essays are masterful.
- Bitch Media: Purity in a Trumped-Up World
- A conversation with AGAINST PURITY author Alexis Shotwell.
- Bitch Radio: Unravelling the Pink Ribbon
- Bitch Radio screens PINK RIBBONS, INC., the documentary based on the book by the same name by Samantha King.
- Bjørn Ekeberg for IAI News: "The Delusions of Cosmology"
- The idea that the universe started with a Big Bang is a key tenet of the standard model of cosmology. But that model is a lot less scientific than it’s taken to be.
- Black Agenda Report Book Forum with Liat Ben-Moshe
- I hope that disability rights movements understand how pathologization is deeply connected to racialization, criminalization and white supremacy. I hope that this unlearning leads to more intersectional analysis and struggles for liberation.
- Black Gate reviews Styrbiorn the Strong
- E. R. Eddison's STYRBIORN THE STRONG tells the story of Styrbiorn Olaffson, teenage heir to the throne of Sweden. Denied his birthright and exiled from Sweden, Styrbiorn spends three years a-viking, during which his power and influence waxes mightily.
- Black Perspectives interview with Anthony Ryan Hatch
- Hatch: I wrote it for the millions of people, especially Black people, who struggle to maintain good metabolic health.
- Black Perspectives: The Anti-Black City
- An interview with Jaime Amparo Alves.
- Black Perspectives: The Education of Black Boys
- Review of BLACK BOYS APART by Freeden Blume Oeur.
- Black Press USA: Hope in the Struggle
- Review of Josie Johnson's memoir, Hope in the Struggle, from Black Press USA
- Blogcritics book review: I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts
- Blogcritics reviews Mark Dery's new book.
- Blogcritics book review: Island of the Doomed by Stig Dagerman
- For Dante hell was a series of descending circles, for Sartre it was a room without exit, for Stig Dagerman it is a deserted island on which seven shipwrecked survivors find themselves stranded waiting for death.
- Blogcritics book review: Saint Genet
- Jean-Paul Sartre's SAINT GENET is "far from what would be called a biography."
- Blogcritics book review: Taking Place
- TAKING PLACE: Location and the Moving Image is edited by John David Rhodes and Elena Gorfinkel.
- BlogCritics review: Fool for Love
- "If you're looking for an analysis of how the writer's life and personality, his psychological make-up affected his writing, this is the book you want."
- Blogcritics review: Marguerite Duras's Writing
- Writing is a stream of consciousness collection of essays by French author and film director Marguerite Duras, best known for her novel The Lover and her screenplay for the film Hiroshima Mon Amour.
- Blogcritics reviews Stories from Jonestown
- "There are some voices that have remained unheard through all of this time."
- Blogger review: Myths of the Rune Stone
- "A thoughtful examination of the competing claims of Nordic-Americans, Catholics, Christian fundamentalists, and Minnesotans . . . a rewarding reading experience."
- Blogging death, and searching for meaning in a painful decline
- The National Book Review on We Know How This Ends (Bruce Kramer and Cathy Wurzer).
- Body and Soul review in Publishers Weekly
- Publishers Weekly reviews Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination by Alondra Nelson.
- Bogost reviewed in Creative Applications
- Ian Bogost's HOW TO DO THINGS WITH VIDEOGAMES is reviewed by @serial_consign for Creative Applications Network.
- BoingBoing: It's about Time: Reading Steampunk's Rise and Roots
- Excerpt from LIKE CLOCKWORK, edited by Rachel Bowser and Brian Croxall.
- Book Cover Smackdown: The Lovecraft Edition!
- SF Signal looks at four forthcoming H.P. Lovecraft-themed books.