Book reviews
Check out the latest reviews of University of Minnesota Press books.
- Excerpt of Vacationland on Women's Words on KUMD
- Duluth Public Radio airs an excerpt from Sarah Stonich's latest novel.
- Exchanging Clothes: Recommended for fashion scholars, academic librarians
- Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS) reviews Exchanging Clothes: Habits of Being 2, edited by Cristina Giorcelli and Paula Rabinowitz.
- Expanding Mind interviews Mark Dery
- Expanding Mind interviews the author of I MUST NOT THINK BAD THOUGHTS.
- Experimentation leads to hardier, more beautiful plant varieties
- The La Crosse Tribune reviews GROWING SHRUBS AND SMALL TREES IN COLD CLIMATES by Debbie Lonnee, Nancy Rose, Don Selinger, and John Whitman.
- Exploring place, politics, and personhood with Mark Rifkin
- The author of Settler Common Sense interviews with NBn/New Books in Native American Studies.
- Express: The man behind Rock Hudson
- Review of Robert Hofler's The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson.
- Failure magazine: Great Lakes Storm of 1913
- Review of Michael Schumacher's new book NOVEMBER'S FURY.
- Failure Magazine review of Stories from Jonestown
- “Stories from Jonestown” is a way to get beyond the common perception that everyone at Jonestown “drank the Kool-Aid.”
- Failure Magazine: The Sinking of the Daniel J. Morrell
- Michael Schumacher, author of “Torn in Two,” on the 1966 sinking of the six-hundred-foot Morrell, which broke in half during a storm on Lake Huron.
- Failure Magazine: When the Hills Are Gone
- Thomas W. Pearson on the impact of frac sand mining—in western Wisconsin and beyond.
- Falafel one of many family-friendly recipes in new cookbook
- Review of Cooking Up the Good Life by Twin Cities chef Jenny Breen and writer Susan Thurston in the Bemidji Pioneer.
- Fall Books Preview: 27 Top Picks from Metropolis Magazine
- The leaves are turning and publishers are preparing a whole slate of new releases, including Robert Rosenberger's CALLOUS OBJECTS.
- Fall menu: Time to eat with the seasons
- Star Tribune reviews Beth Dooley's cookbook THE NORTHERN HEARTLAND KITCHEN, which focuses on affordable, seasonal eating.
- Fall & Winter Wonderland: Trade Titles Coming From the University Presses
- Library Journal picks its tops this season.
- Familiar alien anthropology expeditions
- 3:AM Magazine review of Mark Dery's I MUST NOT THINK BAD THOUGHTS.
- Family Fun Twin Cities: ABC Bunny Earns Its Space on Your Bookshelf
- An ideal book for the board book style and will age well with kids, making it a good addition to your own bookshelves.
- Famous First Words: "I Have Been Unfaithful to My Husband"
- Review of Sigrid Undset's book in SpeakOut.
- Fangirl Sports Network: 5 Fun Facts About Jessie Diggins
- Brave Enough. That’s the title of the book Jessie wrote (yes, she’s an author, too!). Published in 2020, Jessie penned the autobiography as a way to honestly share her journey to overcoming an eating disorder, with the hope that her story can help others.
- FantasyLiterature.com on Death Sentences
- Take a heaping helping of Philip K. Dick, a dollop or two of Ray Bradbury, layer into a pan, then frost liberally with my undergrad survey course in artistic movements — particular the week or so on surrealism.
- Farmers markets without fear
- On Beth Dooley's Minnesota's Bounty: The Farmers Market Cookbook
- Fashion Historian: Accessories in Fashion Studies
- Fashion Historian blog reviews ACCESSORIZING THE BODY, edited by Cristina Giorcelli and Paula Rabinowitz
- FasterSkier: The Legends We Are Living Out
- In a history of American skiing centered around the Upper Midwest, author Ryan Rodgers weaves together the stories of individuals who have found joy, love, and purpose in skiing with their heel detached, inspiring his readers to do so, too.
- Feeling Kinky about Environmentalism: A Conversation with Nicole Seymour
- Why do we expect to feel reverence when encountering wilderness and wild creatures? Or alarm and self-righteousness in response to invasive species or climate change?
- Fiction Advocate asks: What's in a game?
- Fiction Advocate reviews HOW TO DO THINGS WITH VIDEOGAMES by Ian Bogost.
- Fighting Breast Cancer: To Pink Or Not To Pink?
- Samantha King, author of PINK RIBBONS, INC., interviewed on KUOW radio.
- Filipino Labor for Sale! Will Deliver.
- Robyn Rodriguez writes about her research for MIGRANTS FOR EXPORT for Hyphen magazine.
- Film International: Rehistoricizing the Gaze
- Elena Gorfinkel’s Lewd Looks: American Sexploitation Cinema in the 1960s
- Film International: The Mind as Camera
- Review of Werner Herzog's OF WALKING IN ICE.
- Film Journal review: Pink Ribbons, Inc.
- When every month has its own disease, and each satin ribbon pinned to your chest is in a different color, it’s an eye-opener by a splash of cold water to see this documentary questioning the uses of philanthropy for the fight against breast cancer.
- Finding his inner Sherlock Holmes
- The ECM Post Review covers a reading with Larry Millett, author of several books that bring Sherlock Holmes to Minnesota.