Book reviews
Check out the latest reviews of University of Minnesota Press books.
- How Do You Finally Get Your Book Finished (and Published)?
- An interview with TURN HERE SWEET CORN author Atina Diffley.
- How Do You Like It So Far?: The Metabolist Imagination
- Interview with William O. Gardner, author of The Metabolist Imagination
- How has the idea of the Orient influenced Hollywood films?
- Jane Park, author of YELLOW FUTURE, talks with ABC Classic FM about representations of race and ethnicity, particularly of Asiatic peoples and cultures in film and popular media.
- How motherhood changes the texture of our lives
- Review of Kate Hopper's Ready for Air in Special Needs Mom blog.
- How the Renowned Liar Fritz Lang Became One of the Most Truthful Filmmakers
- Popmatters reviews Patrick McGilligan's book "Fritz Lang: The Nature of the Beast."
- Hubble Space Telescope Images
- Review of Elizabeth Kessler's PICTURING THE COSMOS at the Sun News Network.
- Huffington Post: Before The Marriage Equality Movement, These Lesbians Were Targeting Children In School Yards
- Features EATING FIRE by Kelly Cogswell.
- Huffington Post: Dark Times and the Powers of Dreaming
- Throughout history, in times of collective crisis, people’s dreams have often responded with a surge of imagery, emotion, and insight that help people respond more effectively and creatively to the pressing challenges facing their group in waking life.
- Huffington Post on Reading Writing Interfaces
- Lori Emerson asks us to reconsider the inevitability and desirability of the "invisible" computer interface.
- Huffington Post reviews Virality
- The rise of the network society is a reality -- though certainly not everyone around the world is participating.
- Huffington Post: This Thanksgiving, Make These Native Recipes From Indigenous Chefs
- “I think we could do so much better [by having] a holiday that’s not focused on something that just dismisses so much intense history for a large group of people,” he said. “It should really be about giving thanks for the harvest season and [exploring] an indigenous dinner.”
- Huffington Post: What's in a Sex?
- Understanding the Sexual in Early Modern England | A look at SEX BEFORE SEX, edited by James Bromley and Will Stockton
- HuffPost: Cure Yourself of Planning and 'Dis Ease'
- HuffPost's Healthy Living blog feature on Bruce Kramer and his 'Dis Ease Diary.'
- Humane Ingenuity newsletter: Bookwork and Cloud Labs
- I found Whitney Trettien’s wonderful new book Cut/Copy/Paste to be perfect reading for those of us trying to understand and design the new forms of writing, like newsletters, that have surfaced in digital media.
- Hunting Season: Revealing the Threat in Only the Dead
- Review of the second book in Vidar Sundstol's Minnesota Trilogy series.
- Hush Hush, Forest: A beautiful way to welcome winter.
- A beautiful way to welcome winter, and bedtime, with the northwoods as backdrop.
- Hypatia: Against Purity
- Shotwell persuasively encourages her reader to accept that purity is a myth, and that if we want to live better lives--that is to say, more just lives, but also qualitatively better ones in a world that seems to be politically and environmentally deteriorating all around us--we ought to reject this myth in favor of the impure.
- Hyperallergic: A Painter Speaks, so that His Paintings Can Remain Silent
- When René Magritte wrote “This is not a pipe,” he wasn’t negating the pipe so much as he was negating the language with which we attempt to grasp it.
- Hyperallergic: Harriet Bart
- Article on Harriet Bart and mention of Harriet Bart edited by Laura Wertheim Joseph
- Hyphen Magazine: On the life of Richard Aoki
- Aoki is the subject of Diane Fujino's book SAMURAI AMONG PANTHERS.
- I was a roadie for The Replacements and lived to tell the tale.
- Roadie Bill Sullivan takes you into the madness of touring with The Replacements in “Lemon Jail”
- "I was hooked by what is universal about the prematurity experience."
- Review of Kate Hopper's READY FOR AIR by PreemieBabies101.
- Ian Bogost featured in Forbes
- Forbes magazine interviews Ian Bogost about his new book HOW TO DO THINGS WITH VIDEOGAMES.
- Ian Bogost: Why Debates About Video Games Aren't Really About Video Games
- Ian Bogost, author of HOW TO DO THINGS WITH VIDEOGAMES, writes a guest editorial in Kotaku.
- Iconoclastic Musician Takes Measure Of His Life: 'I Became A Fighter'
- NPR features Fred Ho.
- Ideal nighttime stories for children: Seven Ways to Trick a Troll
- Ideas on Fire: Imagine Otherwise: Liat Ben-Moshe on Community beyond the Carceral State
- On episode 134 of Imagine Otherwise, host Cathy Hannabach interviews Liat Ben-Moshe, who has spent her career tracing what she calls carceral ableism, or the ways the prison industrial complex and anti-disability logics shape one another in our daily lives and our political institutions.
- If you love it, that's a clue: How objects shape a story
- Gayla Marty on The Writer's Block Blog.
- Igniting Change: Producers, Parasites, Patriots
- Interview with Daniel Martinez HoSang and Joseph E. Lowndes, authors of Producers, Parasites, Patriots
- Imagine Otherwise Podcast: Josef Nguyen on the Politics of Flexibility
- In their conversation, Josef and Cathy chat about the promises and perils of flexible planning, especially when environments require new flexibility without funding it.