Book reviews

Check out the latest reviews of University of Minnesota Press books.
Cross-Species Intimacies from Guide Dogs to Artificial Meat
Humanimalia reviews Susan McHugh's ANIMAL STORIES.
CSB/SJU: A wonderful book for a wonderful church
Feature on Victoria Young's SAINT JOHN'S ABBEY CHURCH
Cuban Art News interviews Rachel Weiss
Rachel Weiss is a professor of arts administration and policy at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, who has been traveling to Cuba, and writing about Cuban art, since 1986. Her book, To and From Utopia in the New Cuban Art, was published earlier this year by the University of Minnesota Press. Cuban Art News recently spoke with Weiss about the book, and about contemporary Cuban art in general.
Cuban Art News: Rachel Weiss on Curadores, Come Home! at Espacio Aglutinador
Interview with the author of TO AND FROM UTOPIA IN THE NEW CUBAN ART.
Cultural Organizing review: Mothers United
Cultural Organizing reviews Andrea Dyrness's book MOTHERS UNITED.
Culture & Agriculture: Frac Sand Mining in Wisconsin
Interview with Thomas Pearson.
Culture Machine: "We Have Always Been Artificially Intelligent" Interview with Joanna Zylinska
The primary concern of my work over the recent years has been the constitution of the human as both a species and a historical subject.
CultureLab: Life in the tangled Everglades
CultureLab (New Scientist) reviews Laura Ogden's SWAMPLIFE.
Culturology on FROZEN
PRX interviews author Mary Casanova.
Cumbrian Sky reviews PICTURING THE COSMOS
"provides fascinating insights into what goes on “behind the scenes” with Hubble."
Curbed: Stunning Midcentury Architecture In Minnesota You Haven't Seen Before
On Larry Millett's MINNESOTA MODERN.
Dad Bod Rap Pod: Bring That Beat Back
Podcast interview with Nate Patrin, author of Bring That Beat Back
Dagger Zine: Lemon Jail
Gawd, what a ride it was.
Daily Mail: Let old buildings 'rot gracefully'
Professor Caitlin DeSivey said losing heritage does not have to mean failure It can involve a deliberate decision to allow nature to take its course She cites the former atomic weapons testing facility at Orford Ness, Suffolk The National Trust manages the site through a policy of 'continued ruination'
The rarely discussed Replacements side project that was fronted by their roadie.
Bill Sullivan has been the tour manager for a number of acts, including Bright Eyes, Yo La Tengo, Soul Asylum, and Syl Johnson. But it all began with the Replacements. Sullivan worked as a roadie for the group, from their first tour in 1983 through their 1989 trek opening for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. His duties included hauling amps, keeping rowdy fans off the stage, and finding places for the entourage to crash.
Danya Glabau discusses FOOD ALLERGY ADVOCACY on New Books in Education
In Food Allergy Advocacy: Parenting and the Politics of Care, Danya Glabau follows parents and activists as they fight for allergen-free environments, accurate labeling, the fair application of disability law, and access to life-saving medications for food-allergic children in the United States.
Dark side of a celebrated sector
The Hindu discusses Lamia Karim's MICROFINANCE AND ITS DISCONTENTS.
Darts and Letters: EP9: The Founding Grift
(@58:36) Catherine Liu is a professor of film and media studies at UC Irvine and the author of the new polemic Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class. She takes PMCs for scolding the working class, and for upholding their big grift: meritocracy.
Dave Orrick's outdoors reading suggestions for the long winter ahead
NORTHERN PIKE by Rodney Pierce featured among the Pioneer Press's recommendations for winter reading.
Dave Page won’t let us forget F. Scott Fitzgerald
MinnPost feature on The Thoughtbook of F. Scott Fitzgerald—the young author's teen-aged diary.
David Lida: Very Bad Thoughts
David Lida on why Mark Dery (I MUST NOT THINK BAD THOUGHTS) is a "cultural critic" por excelencia.
David Wills on New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
A landmark work in posthuman thought that analyzes and explores the human body as a technology, the book promotes the idea that the human body is open to supplementation by artificial addenda that operate both internally or externally and engage it in an unceasing arbitration with the environment.
De Groene Amsterdammer: Blockchain in the polder
Society embraces 'blockchain', the disruptive technology behind money alternatives such as bitcoin. But do we also embrace the radical ideals and assumptions behind them?
Dear Teen Me: Mary Casanova
Mary Casanova (FROZEN) writes a letter to her 17-year-old self via the Dear Teen Me blog.
Death Panel podcast: Decarcerating Disability
Death Sentences: "One hell of an enjoyable read"
Review in Strange Horizons: Language is central not just to how we lead our lives but to what we are. It is also a weapon.
Debates in the Digital Humanities featured on Delicious.com
Delicious.com features articles and posts surrounding Debates in the Digital Humanities.
Deborah Kalb Q&A: Swede Hollow
Q&A with Ola Larsmo author of Swede Hollow
Democracy Now!: Was Bay Area Radical, Black Panther Arms Supplier Richard Aoki An Informant for the FBI?
Diane Fujino (SAMURAI AMONG PANTHERS) and Seth Rosenfeld, author of a new book that alleges Richard Aoki was an FBI informer, discuss allegations in his book.
Demos Journal: Why the fight against racism and ableism must be shared
I am learning, through Ben-Moshe’s genealogy of carceral locales in Decarcerating Disability, that the idea of ableism is political in itself.