Book reviews
Check out the latest reviews of University of Minnesota Press books.
- Great food has rich history at Spoonriver
- LillieNews.com (St. Paul) interviews Brenda Langton, author of The Spoonriver Cookbook, and offers some choice recipes, including hers for Ginger Squash Soup.
- Great Lakes Echo: Good anglers, bad marriages and fish that fake orgasms
- Eric Dregni dug through small town museums to produce a cultural history of fishing in the Great Lakes region. He listened to anglers tell the same big fish story over and over until after three years he had collected enough odd end stories that make up “Let’s Go Fishing.”
- Great Lakes Echo: What does the Great Storm of 1913 mean to the identity of the Great Lakes?
- Interview with Michael Schumacher, author of NOVEMBER'S FURY.
- Great Lakes Echo: Wilderness guide turns storytelling skills to memoir
- If you’ve ever hiked in a deep forest, paddled a wide lake or walked beside a rushing stream, you already know the places Douglas Wood describes in his memoir, “Deep Woods, Wild Waters.”
- Great Lakes writer tackles tale of survival 50 years after Lake Huron shipwreck
- Great review of the "truly interdisciplinary" Reading Writing Interfaces in Image & Narrative
- Review of Lori Emerson's book.
- Green Bay Press Gazette: Don't miss this one
- Brown County Library article features BORDER COUNTRY.
- Grief Out Loud: What God Is Honored Here?
- Interview with Shannon Gibney and Kao Kalia Yang, editors of What God Is Honored Here?
- Growing up in Waseca cemeteries
- Rachel Hanel's book We'll Be the Last Ones to Let You Down reviewed in Waseca County News.
- Growler: Stories Behind “The Great Minnesota Cookie Book”
- The just-released “Great Minnesota Cookie Book” is an overflowing platter of Minnesota cookie history.
- Guest viewpoint: Microfinance can trap poor women in debt
- Lamia Karim (author of Microfinance and Its Discontents) in an op-ed for The Register-Guard.
- H-Net: A rich and timely critique of the school-to-prison pipeline.
- Review of Damien Sojoyner's FIRST STRIKE.
- H-Net: An excellent example of contemporary study not only of German culture under National Socialism but of European totalitarianism of the interwar era (Italy, USSR).
- Review of Michael Tymkiw's NAZI EXHIBITION DESIGN AND MODERNISM.
- H-Net Disability: "The book contributes a wealth of important insights"
- Ben-Moshe raises powerful questions about the links between neoliberalism and institutions, noting, for instance, that homecare has never been as profitable as institutions that employ people, attract funding, and generate income. The author raises related points about the devaluing of women’s work in providing domestic care, and she has much to say about race relations, noting that the addition of “danger” to the list of criteria for hospitalization increased the likelihood of color becoming institutionalized. Ultimately, Decarcerating Disability concludes that simply abolishing institutions is not the solution. Instead, we need to entirely do away with the broader neoliberal discourses that support imprisonment and learn to embrace, rather than shut away, vulnerability.
- H-Net: Mothers United
- Gilda Ochoa reviews Andrea Dyrness's book about the struggle for socially just education.
- H-Net Reviews: Peace Corps Fantasies
- "A unique perspective on how the concept of masculinity and dominance shaped the development narrative."
- H-Net reviews The Reification of Desire
- Queering Reification: A Look at Kevin Floyd's The Reification of Desire, published on H-Net Reviews's H-Histsex, August 2011.
- H-Net: The Rent of Form
- Review of The Rent of Form by Pedro Fiori Arantes
- H-War: On Mexico's 1968 Olympics
- Review of Luis Castañeda's Spectacular Mexico.
- Hakai: Red Gold
- Op-ed article from Red Gold author Jennifer Telesca
- Happy birthday, Birchwood Cafe.
- Co-owner Tracy Singleton (The Birchwood Cafe Cookbook) looks back on 20 years at her influential Minneapolis restaurant.
- Harriman vs. Hill: "Narrative history at its best."
- Larry Haeg's book reviewed in EH.net, owned and operated by the Economic History Association.
- Harvard Business Review: What So Many People Don’t Get About the U.S. Working Class
- References Jennifer Sherman's THOSE WHO WORK, THOSE WHO DON'T.
- Hawaii's Mormons: 'Chosen People, Promised Land'
- Honolulu Civil Beat reviews Hokulani Aikau's new book.
- Hazel & Wren: Vacationland
- Review of Sarah Stonich's work of fiction.
- Hazen & Wren on Peter Smith's latest
- Review of A CAVALCADE OF LESSER HORRORS by MPR's Peter Smith.
- Health: Disciplinary or Liberatory?
- Cindy Patton, editor of REBIRTH OF THE CLINIC, appears on Against the Grain.
- HealthCentral: Can Grief Really Be a Chronic Condition?
- Prolonged grief disorder is now in the DSM. Does this codify mourning, push people to “get over it,” or help treat true illness? Featuring AFTER EFFECTS by Andrea Gilats.
- Heavy Table: Interview with James Norton and Becca Dilley
- Heavy Table interviews the author and photographer of LAKE SUPERIOR FLAVORS.
- Heavy Table: Savory Sweet
- Is there anything sexier than preserves? The correct answer, of course, is “no.” Preserves capture the bounty of the north’s brief but glorious growing season in a format that stores indefinitely, plays well with other foods, and creates flavors brasher than just about anything else on the plate.