Book reviews
Check out the latest reviews of University of Minnesota Press books.
- Community Reporter: Horticulture as the art and science of growing
- Review of A FIELD GUIDE TO THE NATURAL WORLD OF THE TWIN CITIES.
- Computer Business Review: Microsoft CLAWS at Haptics Progress: Virtual Reality is Getting Tactile
- Recent advances show that “technologies of touch” are on the cusp of major breakthroughs. Could virtual reality prove the fillip that haptics needs?
- Configurations: Archaeologies of Touch
- Review of Archaeologies of Touch by David Parisi
- Connecting to a memoir focused on death
- Review of Rachael Hanel's WE'LL BE THE LAST ONES TO LET YOU DOWN.
- Contemporary Sociology reviews Socialism and Modernity
- Review of Socialism and Modernity by Peter Beilharz in Contemporary Sociology.
- Conversation: Gay couples, choosing to say 'I don't'
- The New York Times article includes input from author Mary Bernstein (The Marrying Kind?)
- Conversation: 'So, when are you going to get married?'
- Article on New Jersey couples features author Mary Bernstein (The Marrying Kind?)
- Coon Rapids resident pens book on rural vaudeville life
- Feature on Michael Fedo, author of A Sawdust Heart: My Vaudeville Life in Medicine and Tent Shows, which follows the fascinating life of Fedo's grandfather-in-law, Henry Wood.
- Coon Rapids tracks part of railroading history
- Newspaper review of MINNESOTA RAILROADS by Steve Glischinski.
- "Could there be a more challenging subject to pen a bio about than Fritz Lang?"
- Pretty Clever Films reviews FRITZ LANG: The Nature of the Beast, by Patrick McGilligan.
- Counter Stories: What God Is Honored Here?
- Interview with Shannon Gibney and Kao Kalia Yang, editors of What God Is Honored Here?
- Counterpunch: Allen Ginsberg Takes a Trip
- 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.
- Cowboys and Indians: The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen
- Sean Sherman’s cookbook urges us to wake up to the past and to the actual American food.
- Cozy Library reviews New to Me
- NEWS TO ME is a memoir by Laurie Hertzel, who "knows how to tell a story and how to avoid the twin traps of telling too much or telling too little."
- Craft Beer on a Stick
- Doug Hoverson (LAND OF AMBER WATERS) will be a guest at some upcoming craft-beer events at the 2012 Minnesota State Fair.
- Crave: New Book Revisits Prince in the 90s
- In "Gold Experience," author Jim Walsh shares interviews, reviews, and encounters with The Purple One.
- Creation of a Sacred Space: 'Saint John's Abbey Church'
- The University of St. Thomas Newsroom features an article about 'Saint John’s Abbey Church: Marcel Breuer and the Creation of a Modern Sacred Space' by Victoria M. Young.
- Creative History: Engaging the work of Peter Forgacs
- The International Documentary Association reviews CINEMA'S ALCHEMIST: THE FILMS OF PETER FORGACS, edited by Bill Nichols and Michael Renov.
- Creative Loafing Atlanta interviews Ian Bogost
- Ian Bogost reveals How to Do Things With Videogames
- Crime by the Book: Interview with Vidar Sundstøl
- Sundstøl covers everything from the inspiration for THE DEVIL’S WEDDING RING to his deep connection to his home, to the crime-solving librarian who plays a significant role in this outstanding crime read.
- Crime by the Book: 'The must-read you haven't heard of yet'
- THE DEVIL'S WEDDING RING is masterfully written, intricately plotted, and wholly immersive; in short, it's a must-read for Nordic Noir fans.
- Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books: Prison Land
- Review of Prison Land by Brett Story
- Critical Inquiry: A Geology of Media
- In A Geology of Media, Jussi Parikka continues his innovative conflation of media production with the changed concepts of nature.
- Critical Inquiry: Hermeneutics can still be a site where politics occurs at its most minute yet prolific.
- A rich account of postsocialist intellectual history as well as a nuanced study of film and literary works that have thus far received scant attention, Information Fantasies also gestures at new directions for future Chinese film and media studies. Among its several achievements is the identification of TV, rather than cinema, as the medium central to the popular imagination of information platforms and digital convergence. This observation joins recent scholarship such as Thomas Lamarre’s study of Japanese anime and its televisual distribution in enlarging a field previously focused on cinematic representations.
- Critical Inquiry: Hyperobjects
- Ursula K. Heise reviews Timothy Morton's book.
- Critical Inquiry: Life, War, Earth
- Eugene Holland reviews John Protevi's book.
- Critical Inquiry: Spectacle of Property
- Spectacle of Property points cinema studies in new directions that should inspire scholarship, teaching, and debate about space, modernity, and Hollywood history. It will be on my syllabus this spring.
- Critical Inquiry: The Modernist Corpse
- Combining new materialism with insights from feminism, queer theory, and media theory, The Modernist Corpse attempts not only to reanimate the corpse in modernism but to reimagine experimental modernism itself by rereading and reassembling its corpus.
- Critical Material Practices with Contemporary Art: Mondloch’s A Capsule Aesthetic
- An in-depth and lush investigation of three artists’ works, showing how each exemplifies the influence of feminism from the 1960s through today, while also pushing us to think and feel and move forward with feminism.
- Critical Theory: Foucault in Iran
- Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi's book among the recommended.