Book reviews
Check out the latest reviews of University of Minnesota Press books.
- Finmag: Bitcoin and the government are friends
- Golumbia explores the ideological starting points of the most visible part of criminals: hence the aging resistance to central banking and the state as such, to centralization and inflation. He well reminds that bitcoin is centralized in its way, with roughly half of all value being held by thousands of owners who can manipulate the market with sophisticated business tricks, and that bitcoin has experienced inflation or hyperinflation several times.
- First Person Scholar: Re-Imagining the Borderlands
- A review of QUEER GAME STUDIES.
- Five Books: The best books on Inflation
- It is important to look at Latin America if we want to understand inflation. Indeed, in the USA and Europe inflation has been stable from the ’90s to 2008. After 2008, these countries witnessed a prolonged period of low inflation. But inflation in Latin America has been consistently higher than in Europe and in the USA.
- Five Compelling Reasons to Support and Commit to Organic Farmers
- Atina Diffley writes in Spirituality & Health about the virtues of supporting organic eating and farming.
- Fjords: Diaboliques
- Diabloques is powerfully erotic and disturbingly violent almost purely because of d’Aurevilly’s formal approach.
- Flash Forward Podcast: "Could Mind Control End Crime?" with Liat Ben-Moshe
- Liat Ben-Moshe, author of DECARCERATING DISABILITY, joins the Flash Forward podcast for a discussion of a future where we start putting devices in people's brains to reduce crime.
- Flavorwire Exclusive: Read Excerpts From F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Teenage Diary
- Taken from THE THOUGHTBOOK OF F. SCOTT FITZGERALD.
- Flavorwire’s Ultimate Gift Guide for the Pop Culture Aficionado In Your Life
- With Werner Herzog's Scenarios and Scenarios II.
- Flavorwire's 16 Must-Have Gifts for the Movie Geek In Your Life
- Includes Awakening the Eye by George Kouvaros.
- Flavorwire's Book of the Week: "I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts"
- Review of the essay collection by Mark Dery.
- Flusser 3X in Afterimage
- Afterimage reviews two books by Vilem Flusser (Into the Universe of Technical Images and Does Writing Have a Future?) as well as Vilem Flusser: An Introduction.
- Flyoverland reviews Vikings in the Attic
- Flyoverland reviews Vikings in the Attic by Eric Dregni.
- Folklore of the Freeway is a summer reading selection
- Posted in L.A. Letters on KCET.org.
- Followers strive to keep Sigurd Olson's legacy alive
- Star Tribune: Some 500 souls a year make a pilgrimage north to visit Olson's one-room log cabin and rocky, pine-studded "Listening Point'' retreat on Burntside Lake near Ely.
- Food Tank: 19 Cookbooks for Food Justice and Sustainability
- Beth Dooley's The Perennial Kitchen in Food Tank.
- Food Tank’s Fall 2018 Reading List—19 Books To Take the Food System Back
- Here are Food Tank’s 19 top picks to inspire new and old activists, leaders, and innovators in the food system.
- Food & Wine: Sean Sherman on Decolonizing the American Diet
- From his home base in Minneapolis, Oglala Lakota chef and educator Sean Sherman's reach extends into many areas. He is studying and promoting indigenous North American foods with projects that range from pop-up dinners to plant taxonomy.
- "For Better or for Worse": A caregiver's unvarnished chronicle
- Review of Susan Allen Toth's NO SAINTS AROUND HERE.
- For those who seek the gold of time.
- A ScienceFiction.com review of Kawamata Chiaki's DEATH SENTENCES.
- Ford's history in the Northland
- Duluth News-Tribune interviews Brian McMahon, author of The Ford Century in Minnesota.
- Foreign Affairs reviews 'HIV Exceptionalism'
- "A keenly observed case study of the impact of foreign aid on local practices in very poor countries."
- ForeWord interviews Atina Diffley
- Atina Diffley (TURN HERE SWEET CORN) talks about inspiration and the writing process.
- Foreword Reviews: "An earnest meditation on the dangers of fascism."
- Haunting and elegiac, Solo Viola has its share of whimsy, but it’s all in service of an earnest meditation on the dangers of fascism that lingers long after the story is concluded.
- ForeWord reviews How To Do Things with Videogames
- "You have no idea what videogames are, or what they can do" -- ForeWord on Ian Bogost's new book How To Do Things with Videogames.
- Foreword Reviews: Iron and Water
- Grant Merritt’s enthralling story is a model for activists everywhere.
- Foreword Reviews: The Contest
- An intimate, moving, and often surprising behind-the-scenes look at the major players who made it a pivotal year in American history.
- ForeWord reviews The Face of America
- The Face of America: Plays for Young People, published with the Minneapolis Children's Theatre Company, reviewed in ForeWord.
- Foreword Reviews: The Lost Brothers
- Review of The Lost Brothers by Jack El-Hai
- Foreword Reviews: The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen
- There are cookbooks from which one simply cooks the recipes, and cookbooks like Chef Sherman’s, from which one learns how and why to cook.
- Forward: Ellen Willis and Me
- Revisiting the Work of a Critic’s Critic (on the publication of THE ESSENTIAL ELLEN WILLIS)