Book reviews
Check out the latest reviews of University of Minnesota Press books.
- Lambda Literary on So Much to Be Done
- Review of the book of essays by Barbara Brenner.
- Lambda Literary on 'The Wedding Heard 'Round the World'
- Michael McConnell’s easy, personable tone will make you feel like your uncle, father, or grandfather is telling the story of their younger years, and what queer life was like back in the day.
- Lambda Literary: Opacity and the Closet
- Review of Nicholas de Villiers' book, which "interrogates the viability of the metaphor of the closet and puts forth a concept of ‘opacity’ as an alternative queer strategy or tactic that is not linked to an interpretation of hidden depths, concealed meanings, or neat opposition between silence and speech."
- 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."