Fall and Winter 2023-24 Books

Announcing our Fall/Winter 2023-24 lineup of exciting new books! Featuring fiction titles Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again (Shigeru Kayama; translated by Jeffrey Angles), A Song over Miskwaa Rapids (Linda LeGarde Grover), and the final book in Sigrid Undset's tetralogy, Olav Audunssøn IV. Winter; nonfiction titles like The Rocks Will Echo Our Sorrow (Elin Anna Labba), The Last Supper Club (Matthew Batt), and Smoke on the Waterfront (Northern Waters Smokehaus). Not to mention pop music at the movies, cactus hunters, a history of the switch, a new F. Scott Fitzgerald biography, and more! Browse all books below or select an option to view the catalog online.

WINTER AND FALL 2023-24

Announcing our Winter/Fall 2023-24 season of new books! Featuring fiction titles Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again (Shigeru Kayama; translated by Jeffrey Angles), A Song over Miskwaa Rapids (Linda LeGarde Grover), and the final book in Sigrid Undset's tetralogy, Olav Audunssøn IV. Winter; nonfiction titles like The Rocks Will Echo Our Sorrow (Elin Anna Labba), The Last Supper Club (Matthew Batt), and Smoke on the Waterfront (Northern Waters Smokehaus). Not to mention pop music at the movies, cactus hunters, a history of the switch, a new F. Scott Fitzgerald biography, and more!

Browse all books below, in alphabetical order by title, or select an option for alternate online viewing.

A Song over Miskwaa Rapids A Novel Linda LeGarde Grover 2023 Fall: A fifty-year-old mystery converges with a present-day struggle over family, land, and history
A Wild Path Douglas Wood 2023 Fall: A soul-satisfying journey through the wilderness that uncovers hope, healing, and the abiding grace of wild things
Archiving Medical Violence Consent and the Carceral State Christopher Perreira 2023 Fall: A major new reading of a U.S. public health system shaped by fraught perceptions of culture, race, and criminality
Asians on Demand Mediating Race in Video Art and Activism Feng-Mei Heberer 2023 Fall: Does media representation advance racial justice?
Border Tunnels A Media Theory of the U.S.–Mexico Underground Juan Llamas-Rodriguez 2023 Fall: A comparative media analysis of the representation of the U.S.–Mexico border
Care without Pathology How Trans- Health Activists Are Changing Medicine Christoph Hanssmann 2023 Fall: Examining trans- healthcare as a key site through which struggles for health and justice take shape
Cash, Clothes, and Construction Rethinking Value in Bolivia’s Pluri-economy Kate Maclean 2023 Fall: A groundbreaking feminist perspective on Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) rule in Bolivia and the country’s radical transformation under Evo Morales
Cinema Is the Strongest Weapon Race-Making and Resistance in Fascist Italy Lorenzo Fabbri 2023 Fall: A deep dive into Italian cinema under Mussolini’s regime and the filmmakers who used it as a means of antifascist resistance
Creating Our Own Lives College Students with Intellectual Disability Michael Gill and Beth Myers, Editors 2023 Fall: Young adults with intellectual disability tell the story of their own experience of higher education
Dreaming Our Futures Ojibwe and Očhéthi Šakówiŋ Artists and Knowledge Keepers Brenda J. Child and Howard Oransky, Editors 2023 Fall: A beautiful collection of the art and life stories of regional Native painters
Empirical Ecocriticism Environmental Narratives for Social Change Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, Alexa Weik von Mossner, Frank Hakemulder and W. P. Malecki, Editors 2023 Fall: A groundbreaking book that combines the environmental humanities and social sciences to study the impact of environmental stories
Estado Vegetal Performance and Plant-Thinking Giovanni Aloi, Editor 2023 Fall: Interdisciplinary essays on Manuela Infante’s award-winning play explore the relationship between critical plant studies and performance art in the Anthropocene
F. Scott Fitzgerald A Composite Biography Niklas Salmose and David Rennie, Editors 2023 Fall: A comprehensive study of the life of F. Scott Fitzgerald, related in two-year chapters by twenty-three leading writers on the Jazz Age author
From Biological Practice to Scientific Metaphysics William C. Bausman, Janella K. Baxter and Oliver M. Lean, Editors 2023 Fall: How analyzing scientific practices can alter debates on the relationship between science and reality
Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again Shigeru Kayama 2023 Fall: The first English translations of the original novellas about the iconic kaijū Godzilla
Gramsci at Sea Sharad Chari 2023 Fall: Exploring how the crisis of the world ocean is produced by capitalism and imperialism
Gunflint Falling Blowdown in the Boundary Waters Cary J. Griffith 2023 Fall: Stories from survivors of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness’s epochal weather disaster
Hermes I Communication Michel Serres 2023 Fall: For the first time in English, the introductory volume in a major French philosopher’s groundbreaking series of poetic transdisciplinary works
Horror in Architecture The Reanimated Edition Joshua Comaroff and Ong Ker-Shing 2023 Fall: A new edition of this extensive visual analysis of horror tropes and their architectural analogues
Impermanence Life and Loss on Superior’s South Shore Sue Leaf 2023 Fall: A personal journey through the ever-changing natural and cultural history of Lake Superior’s South Shore
In Visible Archives Queer and Feminist Visual Culture in the 1980s Margaret Galvan 2023 Fall: Analyzing how 1980s visual culture provided a vital space for women artists to theorize and visualize their own bodies and sexualities
Interpreting the MMPI-3 Yossef S. Ben-Porath and Martin Sellbom 2023 Fall: An essential guide to detailed and accurate interpretation of the MMPI-3
Masculinity in Transition K. Allison Hammer 2023 Fall: Locating the roots of toxic masculinity and finding its displacement in unruly culture
Naked Fieldnotes A Rough Guide to Ethnographic Writing Denielle Elliott and Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer, Editors 2023 Fall: Creative and diverse approaches to ethnographic knowledge production and writing
Neural Networks Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal, Théo Lepage-Richer and Lucy Suchman 2023 Fall: A critical examination of the figure of the neural network as it mediates neuroscientific and computational discourses and technical practices
Nietzsche’s Posthumanism Edgar Landgraf 2023 Fall: A timely and trenchant commentary on the centrality of Nietzsche’s thought for our time
Olav Audunssøn IV IV. Winter Sigrid Undset 2023 Fall: The fourth and final volume in the Nobel Prize–winning writer’s epic of one man’s fateful life in medieval Norway
On the Digital Humanities Essays and Provocations Stephen Ramsay 2023 Fall: A witty and incisive exploration of the philosophical conundrums that animate the digital humanities
Opening Ceremony Inviting Inclusion into University Governance Kathryn J. Gindlesparger 2023 Fall: Explores how university governance is restricted by ceremony and what it must do to survive
Queer Networks Ray Johnson’s Correspondence Art Miriam Kienle 2023 Fall: How the queer correspondence art of Ray Johnson disrupted art world conventions and anticipated today’s highly networked culture
Racial Blackness and Indian Ocean Slavery Iran’s Cinematic Archive Parisa Vaziri 2023 Fall: Rethinking the history of African enslavement in the western Indian Ocean through the lens of Iranian cinema
Revenant Ecologies Defying the Violence of Extinction and Conservation Audra Mitchell 2023 Fall: Engaging a broad spectrum of ecological thought to articulate the ethical scale of global extinction
Sentimental Education The Story of a Young Man Gustave Flaubert 2023 Fall: A fresh and vivid translation of Flaubert’s influential bildungsroman
Smoke on the Waterfront The Northern Waters Smokehaus Cookbook Northern Waters Smokehaus 2023 Fall: A cultural icon of Lake Superior cuisine shares its story, recipes, and techniques
Terrorism on Trial Political Violence and Abolitionist Futures Nicole Nguyen 2023 Fall: A landmark sociological examination of terrorism prosecution in United States courts
The Affect Lab The History and Limits of Measuring Emotion Grant Bollmer 2023 Fall: Examines how our understanding of emotion is shaped by the devices we use to measure it
The Cactus Hunters Desire and Extinction in the Illicit Succulent Trade Jared D. Margulies 2023 Fall: An exploration of the explosive illegal trade in succulents and the passion that drives it
The Colonial Construction of Indian Country Native American Literatures and Federal Indian Law Eric Cheyfitz 2023 Fall: A guide to the colonization and projected decolonization of Native America
The Effluent Eye Narratives for Decolonial Right-Making Rosemary J. Jolly 2023 Fall: Why human rights don’t work
The Harlequin Eaters From Food Scraps to Modernism in Nineteenth-Century France Janet Beizer 2024 Spring: How representations of the preparation, sale, and consumption of leftovers in nineteenth-century urban France link socioeconomic and aesthetic history
The King of Skid Row John Bacich and the Twilight Years of Old Minneapolis James Eli Shiffer 2023 Fall: The story of a much different Minneapolis, through the words and photographs of one of its most colorful characters—now in paperback
The Last Bookseller A Life in the Rare Book Trade Gary Goodman 2023 Fall: A wry, unvarnished chronicle of a career in the rare book trade—now in paperback
The Last Supper Club A Waiter’s Requiem Matthew Batt 2023 Fall: A witty and humble tribute to the sometimes profane, sometimes profound world of waiting tables
The Needle and the Lens Pop Goes to the Movies from Rock ’n’ Roll to Synthwave Nate Patrin 2023 Fall: How the creative use of pop music in film—think Saturday Night Fever or Apocalypse Now—has shaped and shifted music history since the 1960s
The New American War Film Robert Burgoyne 2023 Fall: A look at how post-9/11 cinema captures the new face of war in the twenty-first century
The Palace of the Snow Queen Winter Travels in Lapland and Sápmi Barbara Sjoholm 2023 Fall: An exploration of the winter wonders and entangled histories of Scandinavia’s northernmost landscapes—now back in print with a new afterword by the author
The Rocks Will Echo Our Sorrow The Forced Displacement of the Northern Sámi Elin Anna Labba 2023 Fall: The deep and personal story—told through history, poetry, and images—of the forced displacement of the Sámi people from their homeland in northern Norway and Sweden and its reverberations today
The Shape of Utopia The Architecture of Radical Reform in Nineteenth-Century America Irene Cheng 2023 Fall: How nineteenth-century social reformers devised a new set of radical blueprints for society
The Ski Jumpers A Novel Peter Geye 2023 Fall: Now in paperback: a writer and former ski jumper facing a terminal diagnosis takes one more leap—into a past of soaring flights and broken family bonds
The Switch An Off and On History of Digital Humans Jason Puskar 2023 Fall: From the telegraph to the touchscreen, how the development of binary switching transformed everyday life and changed the shape of human agency
Torture in the National Security Imagination Stephanie Athey 2023 Fall: Reassessing the role of torture in the context of police violence, mass incarceration, and racial capitalism
Ugly White People Writing Whiteness in Contemporary America Stephanie Li 2023 Fall: Whiteness revealed: an analysis of the destructive complacency of white self-consciousness
Unsettling Choice Race, Rights, and the Partitioning of Public Education Ujju Aggarwal 2023 Fall: How the Great Recession revealed a system of school choice built on crisis, precarity, and exclusion
What We Teach When We Teach DH Digital Humanities in the Classroom Brian Croxall and Diane K. Jakacki, Editors 2023 Fall: Exploring how DH shapes and is in turn shaped by the classroom