Forthcoming from University of Minnesota Press

Kill the Overseer! The Gamification of Slave Resistance Sarah Juliet Lauro 2020 Fall

Explores the representation of slave revolt in video games—and the trouble with making history playable

Chronicles of a Radical Hag (with Recipes) A Novel Lorna Landvik 2020 Fall

A bittersweet, seriously funny novel of a life, a small town, and a key to our troubled times traced through a newspaper columnist’s half-century of taking in, and taking on, the world

The Journal of Otto Peltonen A Finnish Immigrant Story William Durbin 2020 Fall

A portrait of the Finnish immigrant experience in Minnesota during the early twentieth century—now in paperback

Swede Hollow A Novel Ola Larsmo 2020 Fall

A riveting family saga immersed in the gritty, dark side of Swedish immigrant life in America in the early twentieth century

Trans Care Hil Malatino 2020 Fall

A radical and necessary rethinking of trans care

Strongwood A Crime Dossier Larry Millett 2020 Fall

The seventh in Larry Millett’s thrilling mystery series pursues the tangled truth behind the killing of the spoiled young heir to an industrial fortune

“But He Doesn’t Know the Territory” The Story behind Meredith Willson’s The Music Man Meredith Willson 2020 Fall

Chronicles the creation of Meredith Willson’s The Music Man—reprinted now as the Broadway Edition

My Life in the Purple Kingdom BrownMark 2020 Fall

From the young Black teenager who built a bass guitar in woodshop to the musician building a solo career with Motown Records—Prince’s bassist BrownMark on growing up in Minneapolis, joining Prince and The Revolution, and his life in the purple kingdom

Capture American Pursuits and the Making of a New Animal Condition Antoine Traisnel 2020 Fall

Reading canonical works of the nineteenth century through the modern transformation of human–animal relations

Fix What You Can Schizophrenia and a Lawmaker's Fight for Her Son Mindy Greiling 2020 Fall

One mother’s fight to support her son and change a broken system

The Range Eternal Louise Erdrich 2020 Fall

The story of a girlhood lived in the glow of a woodstove from one of the country’s most distinguished and beloved authors, now back in print

Wolf Island Discovering the Secrets of a Mythic Animal L. David Mech 2020 Fall

The world’s leading wolf expert describes the first years of a major study that transformed our understanding of one of nature’s most iconic creatures

Undiscovered Country A Novel Lin Enger 2020 Fall

Now in paperback—a bold reinvention of Shakespeare’s Hamlet and a hair-bristling story of betrayal, revenge, and the possibilities of forgiveness

Unraveling Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer 2020 Fall

Developing a cybernetic model of subjectivity and personhood that honors disability experiences to reconceptualize the category of the human

Radioactive Ghosts Gabriele Schwab 2020 Fall

A pioneering examination of nuclear trauma, the continuing and new nuclear peril, and the subjectivities they generate

The Death of Things Ephemera and the American Novel Sarah Wasserman 2020 Fall

A comprehensive study of ephemera in twentieth-century literature—and its relevance to the twenty-first century

American Gospel A Novel Lin Enger 2020 Fall

Radically personal and quintessentially American, an intimate drama at the heart of an apocalyptic vision

Scammer’s Yard The Crime of Black Repair in Jamaica Jovan Scott Lewis 2020 Fall

Tells the story of Jamaican “scammers” who use crime to gain autonomy, opportunity, and repair

Universal Emancipation Race beyond Badiou Elisabeth Paquette 2020 Fall

A vital and timely contribution to the growing scholarship on the political thought of Alain Badiou

Remote Warfare New Cultures of Violence Rebecca A. Adelman and David Kieran, Editors 2020 Fall

Considers how people have confronted, challenged, and resisted remote warfare

Jose Montoya Ella Maria Diaz 2020 Fall

A generously illustrated account of the life and work of the prominent Chicano artist, educator, and activist

The Soup and Bread Cookbook Beatrice Ojakangas 2020 Fall

More than one hundred delectable and satisfying soup and bread pairings from beloved James Beard Cookbook Hall of Famer Beatrice Ojakangas

The Probiotic Planet Using Life to Manage Life Jamie Lorimer 2020 Fall

Assesses a promising new approach to restoring the health of our bodies and our planet

Drawing the Sea Near Satoumi and Coral Reef Conservation in Okinawa C. Anne Claus 2020 Fall

How Japanese coastal residents and transnational conservationists collaborated to foster relationships between humans and sea life

Sounds from the Other Side Afro–South Asian Collaborations in Black Popular Music Elliott H. Powell 2020 Fall

A sixty-year history of Afro–South Asian musical collaborations

The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Gender Marquis Bey 2020 Fall

A complex articulation of the ways blackness and nonnormative gender intersect—and a deeper understanding of how subjectivities are formed

The Fall of America Journals, 1965-1971 Allen Ginsberg 2020 Fall

An autobiographical journey through America in the turbulent 1960s—the essential backstory to Ginsberg’s National Book Award–winning volume of poetry

Fear and Loving in South Minneapolis Jim Walsh 2020 Fall

A veteran Twin Cities journalist and raconteur summons the life of the city after reporting and recording its stories for more than thirty years

Olav Audunssøn I. Vows Sigrid Undset 2020 Fall

The initial volume in the Nobel Prize–winning author’s tumultuous, epic story of medieval Norway—the first new English translation in nearly a century

The Magic Bullet A Locked Room Mystery Featuring Shadwell Rafferty and Sherlock Holmes Larry Millett 2020 Fall

The thrilling sixth novel in local historian Larry Millett’s renowned mystery series

Shaving the Beasts Wild Horses and Ritual in Spain John Hartigan Jr. 2020 Fall

A vivid first-person study of a notorious equine ritual—from the perspective of the wild horses who are its targets

Hazel Belvo A Matriarch of Art Julie L’Enfant 2020 Fall

An illustrated art biography of one of Minnesota’s best-known feminist artists

Blackness in Morocco Gnawa Identity through Music and Visual Culture Cynthia J. Becker 2020 Fall

A groundbreaking study of Blackness in Morocco through the lens of visual representation

Pulses of Abstraction Episodes from a History of Animation Andrew R. Johnston 2020 Fall

Reshapes the history of abstract animation and its importance to computer imagery and cinema

Design, Control, Predict Logistical Governance in the Smart City Aaron Shapiro 2020 Fall

An in-depth look at life in the “smart” city

The Computer’s Voice From Star Trek to Siri Liz W. Faber 2020 Fall

A deconstruction of gender through the voices of Siri, HAL 9000, and other computers that talk

Intolerable Writings from Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group (1970–1980) Michel Foucault and Prisons Information Group 2020 Fall

A groundbreaking collection of writings by Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group documenting their efforts to expose France’s inhumane treatment of prisoners

The Future History of Contemporary Chinese Art Peggy Wang 2020 Fall

A revelatory reclaiming of five iconic Chinese artists and their place in art history

Ends of Cinema Richard Grusin and Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece, Editors 2020 Fall

Leading film and media scholars discuss multiple “ends” in the history of cinema

Minnesota’s Natural Heritage Second Edition John R. Tester, Susan M. Galatowitsch, Rebecca A. Montgomery and John J. Moriarty 2020 Fall

The definitive work on Minnesota’s natural history and ecology—updated, expanded, and copiously illustrated to account for profound changes to the state’s natural landscape over the past twenty-five years

Nellie Francis Fighting for Racial Justice and Women’s Equality in Minnesota William D. Green 2020 Fall

The life and work of an African American suffragist and activist devoted to equality and freedom

Timescales Thinking across Ecological Temporalities Bethany Wiggin, Carolyn Fornoff and Patricia Eunji Kim, Editors 2020 Fall

Humanists, scientists, and artists collaborate to address the disjunctive temporalities of ecological crisis

Arc of the Journeyman Afghan Migrants in England Nichola Khan 2020 Fall

A monumental account of one migrant community’s everyday lives, struggles, and aspirations

Black Queer Flesh Rejecting Subjectivity in the African American Novel Alvin J. Henry 2020 Fall

A groundbreaking examination of how twentieth-century African American writers use queer characters to challenge and ultimately reject subjectivity

Lost Souls Honoré de Balzac 2020 Fall

The first new translation of Balzac’s 1847 novel Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes in half a century, fully annotated and with an extensive introduction