Book reviews
Check out the latest reviews of University of Minnesota Press books.
- KUMD: The Wedding Heard 'Round the World
- Michael McConnell and his husband of 44 years, Jack Baker, were gay-married when gay-married wasn't cool - or even legal. But was it? How it's possible that gay marriage was legal all along ... and an inspiring story where love wins.
- KUMD's MN Reads features Catherine Madison
- Interview with the author of 'The War Came Home With Him.'
- LA Review of Books: Actually, Images Have Meanings of Their Own
- Review of Todd Cronan's AGAINST AFFECTIVE FORMALISM in the Los Angeles Review of Books.
- LA Review of Books: Colin Dickey on Vampyroteuthis Infernalis: A Treatise
- On the Trail of the Elusive Vampire Squid from Hell
- LA Review of Books: From Sex Worker as Character to Sex Worker as Producer
- A Review of Nicholas de Villier’s “Sexography: Sex Work in Documentary”: In a world that is dominated by anti-sex work bias, such an analysis is sorely needed.
- LA Review of Books: Global Warming and Other Hyperobjects
- Stephen Muecke reviews Timothy Morton's HYPEROBJECTS.
- LA Review of Books - Hathologies: An Interview with Mark Dery
- Michael Goetzman interviews the author of I MUST NOT THINK BAD THOUGHTS.
- LA Review of Books: Not Just Pussy Hats on the Climate March: Feminist Encounters with the Anthropocene
- Feminist thinkers have taken issue with the idea of the Anthropocene almost since its inception.
- LA Review of Books on Ellen Willis
- The Los Angeles Review of Books reviews Ellen Willis's OUT OF THE VINYL DEEPS and discusses her "escape from the music ghetto."
- LA Review of Books: Sleep's Hidden Histories
- Benjamin Reiss on Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer's The Slumbering Masses.
- LA Review of Books: This American Gothic
- Eric Been on Mark Dery's I MUST NOT THINK BAD THOUGHTS.
- LA Review of Books: When Looks Can Kill
- On Antoine Bousquet's THE EYE OF WAR.
- LA Review of Books: Words that Kill
- D. Harlan Wilson on DEATH SENTENCES by Kawamata Chiaki.
- LA Review of Books: Writing Human Rights
- Mention of Writing Human Rights by Crystal Parikh
- LA Times: 10 of the best new cookbooks of 2017
- Featuring Sean Sherman's 'The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen.'
- LA Times' Burbank Leader: Similarities between 1968 and 2016 elections
- A new book by author Michael Schumacher looks into how the 1968 election between Richard Nixon and Hubert Humphrey shaped the country’s politics into what it is today.
- LA Times Critic's Notebook: Essays tiptoe up to grab us unawares
- Collections by Tom Bissell and Mark Dery join a growing list of works in which the universal becomes personal, then becomes universal again. By David L. Ulin, LA Times Book Critic.
- LA Times: Spring Arts Preview 2014
- Features two events and five new books, including THE ESSENTIAL ELLEN WILLIS.
- LA Times Year in Review: Books
- Ellen Willis's OUT OF THE VINYL DEEPS included in the LA Times Year In Review roundup.
- LA Weekly: A New Book About Jonestown, the West Coast Cult That Led to a Massacre
- Feature on Stories from Jonestown by Leigh Fondakowski.
- LA Weekly: 'Our Gang' reveals the complicated racial history of The Little Rascals
- Julia Lee's OUR GANG is "a fully fleshed-out and colorful pop-culture history."
- Lake Effect: Photos, interview about Great Lakes storm of 1913
- Featuring author Michael Schumacher.
- Lake Minnetonka Magazine: Dispatches from Summer Camp
- Eric Dregni remembers his first—reluctant—journey to camp in Mound and the summer that got him hooked.
- Lake Superior Flavors: 12 Outtakes
- The Heavy Table features extra stories and images that didn't make it in to a new illustrated volume by James Norton and Becca Dilley.
- Lake Superior Magazine reviews The Invisible Element of Place
- Review of THE INVISIBLE ELEMENT OF PLACE: THE ARCHITECTURE OF DAVID SALMELA by Thomas Fisher.
- Lake Superior Magazine: Water and What We Know
- "Sometimes just observing the journey is satisfaction enough."
- Lambda Literary: "Inspiring and absolutely heroic. This story belongs to us all."
- Review of Kelly Cogswell's EATING FIRE.
- Lambda Literary: Isherwood in Transit
- Mention of Isherwood in Transit edited by James J. Berg and Chris Freeman
- Lambda Literary: Land of 10,000 Loves
- A review of the new book by Stewart Van Cleve on the history of queer Minnesota.
- Lambda Literary: My life as a Lesbian Avenger
- Interview with Kelly Cogswell.