Book reviews
Check out the latest reviews of University of Minnesota Press books.
- Heirloom Gardener: Different Types of Beans with Three Sisters Mash Recipe
- Learn about different types of beans and its role in Native American cuisine. Recipe from The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen.
- Heirloom Gardener: Different Types of Wild Greens with Pesto Recipe
- Add zest to salads and pesto by using wild greens found in your backyard. Recipe from The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen.
- Hello Giggles: It's time to start paying attention to indigenous foods — especially on Thanksgiving
- Food sovereignty — the right to grow, make, and eat culturally-appropriate foods — is an important component of the indigenous rights movement, but native foods aren’t just for indigenous people.
- Hennepin County Library: What We Loved in 2021
- Staff recommend their favorite adult nonfiction books that they read this year.
- Her Life Was Saved by Rock 'n' Roll: Ellen Willis Espoused the Existential Crises of Rock
- Review of Out of the Vinyl Deeps, a compilation of Rock, Etc., essays by Ellen Willis, in The Jewish Daily Forward.
- Here on Earth interviews Eric Dregni
- What does it mean to grow up Scandinavian? Eric Dregni discusses on Here on Earth: Radio without Borders.
- Heroes and victims of the powerful storm of 1913
- The Buffalo News on Michael Schumacher's NOVEMBER'S FURY
- Hey, soil sister: Atina Diffley
- Star Tribune: Atina Diffley, a "rock star" in organic farming circles, now aims to cultivate hearts and minds with her new memoir about love, loss, land and battling a pipeline.
- Hibbing Daily Tribune: Bringing Mary Casanova's first two books back into print
- On University of Minnesota Press's bringing MOOSE TRACKS and WOLF SHADOWS back into print.
- Hibbing Daily Tribune: Professor Berman
- Review of Professor Berman by Hy Berman with Jay Weiner
- High Country News: How do you make a movie about a hyperobject?
- The film ‘Don’t Look Up’ turns climate change into an allegorical comet.
- Highlights blog: Finding Treasure at a Workshop
- Guest post by Ann Treacy.
- Historian Richard Lindberg explores his own Swedish-American past
- Richard Lindberg, author of WHISKEY BREAKFAST, chats with WBEZ 91.5.
- Historical Novel Society: Olav Audunssøn: Providence
- Replete with family feuds, betrayal, clandestine love, and the consequences of a man’s infidelity to his own honor, the Audunssøn saga is recommended reading.
- History News Network on Debating the End of History
- David Noble challenges the conventional wisdom of perpetual economic growth upon which bourgeois culture is founded.
- History Theatre releases info about "Coco's Diary"
- The History Theatre (Minnesota) is releasing a play based on THROUGH NO FAULT OF MY OWN (Coco Irvine) in March 2012.
- HIV Disclosure: Privacy, Pressure & Public Health - Interview with Adia Benton
- Tiny Spark interview with Adia Benton on 'HIV Exceptionalism'
- Holiday books: 10 that reflect Minnesota and the region
- Star Tribune's holiday picks.
- Holiday books roundup
- Star Tribune features several UMP books in its regional holiday books roundup section.
- On the Black Panther Party’s Free Clothing Program: Q&A with Alondra Nelson
- threadbared interviews Alondra Nelson on the Black Panther Party's health care activisim. Nelson is author of BODY AND SOUL: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination.
- Hometown Focus reviews Blue Guitar Highway
- Hometown Focus reviews Minnesota musician Paul Metsa's memoir BLUE GUITAR HIGHWAY.
- Hometown Source: "One of the very best books I've ever read"
- I hope that Drouillard inspires families to spend time this summer learning about the challenges that family elders, alive and passed on, have faced and survived.
- Hong Kong Review of Books: Foucault in Iran
- Angus Reoch reviews Foucault in Iran:, arguing that it is never useless to revolt and grappling with the contradictions of Western philosophy as they have emerged in the real world
- Horn Book Review of Grandmother's Pigeon
- Realistic-looking illustrations ground the story in naturalism, while inventive — and unexplained — details allow the inquisitive young people, with their ever-changing facial expressions, to honor their grandmother’s wishes.
- Hot & Sweet Carrot Relish Freezer Preserves from Savory Sweet
- Make delicious hot and sweet carrot relish and keep in your freezer to bring a burst of flavor to so many dishes – grilled or roasted chicken, cured meats, salads, or topping crackers.
- Houston Press: Bob Dylan Memories Unearthed—More Than 50 Years Later
- The life and music of the now 80-year-old Bob Dylan has been analyzed, dissected, dug into, debated, argued about and postulated on perhaps more than any other musical artist. But what The Dylan Tapes has that most of them don’t are the raw and then-relatively recent thoughts and memories of those where there, and early on in the journey.
- Houston Press: The Ragged Road of the Replacements...Featuring Reptiles in Houston!
- If you made a list of the most hazardous and patience-testing job descriptions in the history of rock and roll, “Road Manager for the Replacements” would certainly rank toward the upper echelon.
- How Aluminum Revolutionized The Canoe: Excerpt in Gear Junkie
- After World War II, the manufacture and performance of American-made canoes experienced a surge thanks to a new material: Aluminum.
- How Apple's transcendent chihuahua killed the revolution
- Longreads excerpt of Ian Bogost's The Geek's Chihuahua.
- How can U just leave me standing? ...in search of Prince Rogers Nelson.
- Podcast interview with BrownMark, author of My Life in the Purple Kingdom, with Sam Bleazard.