Book reviews
Check out the latest reviews of University of Minnesota Press books.
- New Books in Political Science: Bargaining for Women's Rights
- Alice J. Kang's book focuses on the politics of women's rights in Niger.
- New Republic: The Intimate Story of a Gay-Marriage Pioneer
- Michael McConnell and Jack Baker applied for their first marriage license 40 years ago, beginning a lifelong battle.
- Vivascene: Early Blues
- A fascinating study and a compelling read for guitarists, music lovers and social historians alike.
- 'Everybody's Heard about the Bird' on KAXE
- Rick Shefchik talks The Trashmen, The Underbeats, DJ Bill Diehl, Soma Records, the emergence of rock and roll and more.
- PopMatters: How Did Four Young Black Boys Become Hollywood Stars During the Height of Jim Crow?
- Review of Julia Lee's OUR GANG.
- Q&A: A Public Radio Journalist on Writing a Book with a Dying Man
- This interview with Cathy Wurzer is a follow-up to the National Book Review's review of 'We Know How This Ends.'
- 'Portage' transports even a time-hardened paddler
- Rochester Post-Bulletin: Sue Leaf has a way of getting down to the nub of why we canoe and the wisdom to be learned from the heat, cold, swamping, easy paddles and fast rapids, both in a canoe and in life.
- Library Journal: The Wedding Heard 'Round the World
- "(Michael McConnell and Jack Baker's) appeal is how ordinary people can do extraordinary things."
- The Family That Canoes Together, Time Travels Together
- Review of the new memoir by Sue Leaf, 'Portage: A Family, a Canoe, and the Search for the Good Life'
- The Role of Plants in the Order of Life
- UTNE exerpt: The story of “The Year the Roses Died” embodies the teaching of the place of plants in our world.
- Curbed: Stunning Midcentury Architecture In Minnesota You Haven't Seen Before
- On Larry Millett's MINNESOTA MODERN.
- Minnesota Women's Press: On Sarah Deer, Changemaker
- One in three Native women will be sexually assaulted during her lifetime, compared to one woman in five in the general population.
- Flavorwire's 16 Must-Have Gifts for the Movie Geek In Your Life
- Includes Awakening the Eye by George Kouvaros.
- PopMatters: Do We Need a Book That Talks About Videogames in Relation to Kant's Thoughts on the Sublime?
- Whether you played Pac-Man as a kid, are a videogame fanatic, or simply enjoy 'Words with Friends,' HOW TO TALK ABOUT VIDEOGAMES has much to offer.
- Blogging death, and searching for meaning in a painful decline
- The National Book Review on We Know How This Ends (Bruce Kramer and Cathy Wurzer).
- Fox 9: A book that rocks and rolls
- M. A. Rosko talks with Rick Shefchik.
- Roy Christopher: Pseudonymity, Anonymity, and Obfuscation
- Review of Improper Names by Marco Deseriis.
- Publishers Weekly: Our Gang
- Review of Julia Lee's book on The Little Rascals.
- The Atlantic: A new book offers a different perspective on The Little Rascals.
- Review of Julia Lee's OUR GANG.
- Interchange – Embodied By Prisons: First the Whip, Then the Chains, and Then…
- Interview with Lisa Guenther, author of SOLITARY CONFINEMENT.
- The New Inquiry: Media Matters
- Silicon Valley’s rhetoric of magical innovation relies on a hidden abode of rare earth mining and hydro-cooled server farms. A review of Jussi Parikka's A GEOLOGY OF MEDIA.
- Kare 11: Birchwood Cafe recipes at home
- Pear Cranberry Chutney with Tracy Singleton and Marshall Paulsen of The Birchwood Cafe.
- Modern love: Book sheds light on midcentury modernism in Minnesota
- Star Tribune: Architectural historian Larry Millett's latest book sheds light on midcentury modernism in Minnesota – and how it shaped the Twin Cities we know today.
- Larry Millett makes the case for saving midcentury architecture
- MinnPost reviews MINNESOTA MODERN.
- Lavender: America’s First Gay Marriage, 44 Years Later
- Interview with Michael McConnell and Jack Baker.
- MinnPost: 'Everybody's Heard about the Bird' meant to be savored and saved.
- From its beautiful first sentence (“In the beginning was Augie Garcia”) to the gorgeous up-from-the-archives posters and photos and meticulous reporting that fills its 350 pages, this is a book made and meant to be savored and saved.
- Uprising with Sarah Deer
- There is an epidemic of rape in the United States.
- MPR: The story behind 'Surfin' Bird'
- Featuring Rick Shefchik's EVERYBODY'S HEARD ABOUT THE BIRD.
- Pioneer Press: The heart of Minnesota's rock scene in the 1960s
- Pioneer Press features Rick Shefchik's EVERYBODY'S HEARD ABOUT THE BIRD.
- MPR: Confronting sexual violence against Native women
- Interview with Sarah Deer, author of THE BEGINNING AND END OF RAPE.
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