Book reviews
Check out the latest reviews of University of Minnesota Press books.
- Lambda Literary: Queer Game Studies
- This anthology’s title, Queer Game Studies, can be read a few ways: a queer take on (video) games, studies on queer games or even a call to queer game studies.
- Lambda Literary Review of 'Transnational LGBT Activism: Working for Sexual Rights Worldwide' by Ryan R. Thoreson
- Lambda Literary Review of ‘Transnational LGBT Activism: Working for Sexual Rights Worldwide’ by Ryan R. Thoreson
- Lambda Literary review of 'Transnational LGBT Activism: Working for Sexual Rights Worldwide’ by Ryan R. Thoreson
- Lambda Literary review of 'Transnational LGBT Activism: Working for Sexual Rights Worldwide’ by Ryan R. Thoreson
- Lambda on Jaime Harker's Middlebrow Queer
- "Harker clearly shows how much more complicated it all gets—how Isherwood, on closer analysis, wanted to have his cake and eat it too."
- 'Land is a Relationship': An interview with Glen Coulthard, author of 'Red Skins, White Masks'
- Harsha Walia, from rabble.ca, interviews Glen Coulthard, author of 'Red Skins, White Masks'
- Land of 10,000 Stories: An Interview with Stewart Van Cleve
- A Lavender interview.
- Landscape Architecture Magazine: Herlands
- Review of Herlands by Keridwen N. Luis
- LARB: “Star Trek: Discovery” and the Dream of Future Fuels
- Could the writers of Discovery have read anthropologist Anna Tsing’s The Mushroom at the End of the World? An article by FUEL author Karen Pinkus.
- LARB | No mind to lose: On brainwashing
- SCOTT SELISKER begins his book Human Programming: Brainwashing, Automatons, and American Unfreedom with the case of John Walker Lindh, the so-called “American Taliban” who was captured in Afghanistan as an enemy combatant shortly after the US invasion in 2001.
- LARB on Stanislaw Lem, devourer of encyclopedias
- David Auerbach on Lem's SUMMA TECHNOLOGIAE.
- Largehearted Boy: Lemon Jail playlist
- Lemon Jail: On the Road with the Replacements is an insightful and entertaining account of tour manager Bill Sullivan's time with the band.
- Largehearted Boy: Rene Magritte playlist
- Larry Millett brings Sherlock Holmes to Minnesota
- The Twin Cities Daily Planet features six new editions of Millett's Sherlock Holmes novels, all of which include a "heavy dose of Twin Cities history and architecture."
- Larry Millett makes the case for saving midcentury architecture
- MinnPost reviews MINNESOTA MODERN.
- Larry Millett maps the ghosts of Twin Cities past
- MinnPost talks about the good 'ol historic days of MN architecture with Larry Millett (ONCE THERE WERE CASTLES).
- Larry Millett on Twin Cities Live
- Larry Millett takes a walk with Twin Cities Live "Man of History" John Hanson through Minneapolis and St. Paul's office buildings with fascinating past functions.
- Lateral: Archaeologies of Touch
- Archaeologies of Touch announces itself as an opening salvo for a new media studies subfield capable of addressing this ongoing haptic reconstruction of our media environment.
- Lateral Review of REMEMBERING OUR INTIMACIES
- REMEMBERING OUR INTIMACIES generously offers all readers a way to imagine intimate relations beyond the settler-capitalist constructions of land as property and love as patriarchy.
- Latin America’s Left: Between Demos and Kratos
- Public Books reviews Antonio Negri's Insurgencies.
- Laura Erickson on WTIP
- Laura Erickson, author of TWELVE OWLS, appears on WTIP/North Shore Community Radio.
- Laura Erickson to pen regular column about attracting birds for BirdWatching
- Laura Erickson, author of TWELVE OWLS, will begin writing for the magazine for its February 2012 issue.
- Lavender: America’s First Gay Marriage, 44 Years Later
- Interview with Michael McConnell and Jack Baker.
- Lavender: Isherwood in Transit
- Review of Isherwood in Transit edited by James J. Berg and Chris Freeman
- Lavender Magazine: Gay, Inc.
- A thought-provoking work that leads to no easy solutions while raising many questions about wealth and privilege within the GLBT community itself. Consider the subtitle.
- Lavender's Holiday Gift Guide
- Jeff Solomon's SO FAMOUS AND SO GAY is #3.
- Lavishly illustrated Sami folk tales get new life
- MinnPost reviews CHILDREN OF THE NORTHLIGHTS by Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire.
- Law360 | Judging A Book: Miles Lord
- "Roberta Walburn, journalist and outstanding litigator, has written a rollicking and spirited biography of her mentor and friend, Miles Lord."
- Leader Appraising, Stargazing, and Pop Culture-Crazing
- In The Six-Point Inspection, Zócalo takes a quick look at new books that are changing the way we see our world. Includes Mark Dery's I MUST NOT THINK BAD THOUGHTS.
- Lean Out with Tara Henley: Conversation with Catherine Liu
- In our conversation today on the podcast, Liu touches on everything from mommy bloggers to land acknowledgements — and argues that we must insist on viewing society’s current struggles through an economic lens.
- Learning Curve: Making students feel like criminals
- Author Kathleen Nolan (Police in the Hallways): Police in schools can make it feel like prison .