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Awakening the Eye Robert Frank’s American Cinema George Kouvaros 2015 Fall: A long overdue critical study of the work of a legendary American photographer and filmmaker
Avant-Garde Museology e-flux classics Arseny Zhilyaev, Editor 2015 Fall: Avant-Garde Museology is the Press’s first title in e-flux classics
Hope at Sea Possible Ecologies in Oceanic Literature Teresa Shewry 2015 Fall: Hope is a lifeline running through the work of literary writers in and surrounding the Pacific Ocean
Coin-Operated Americans Rebooting Boyhood at the Video Game Arcade Carly A. Kocurek 2015 Fall: How and why video gaming culture became the domain of young men and boys
Measuring Manhood Race and the Science of Masculinity, 1830–1934 Melissa N. Stein 2015 Fall: A major new history of scientific racism in the United States
Best to Laugh A Novel Lorna Landvik 2015 Fall: Minnesota funny girl takes Hollywood by storm in inimitable Lorna Landvik style
Only the Dead Vidar Sundstøl 2015 Fall: A psychological thriller that deepens the mystery begun in the prize-winning first volume of Vidar Sundstøl’s internationally best-selling Minnesota Trilogy
Diaboliques Six Tales of Decadence Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly 2015 Fall: “Literature doesn’t express even half of the crimes that society commits behind closed doors.” —Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly
The Value of Homelessness Managing Surplus Life in the United States Craig Willse 2015 Fall: How social welfare and social science came to reinforce, not combat, racialized housing insecurity
Singular Images, Failed Copies William Henry Fox Talbot and the Early Photograph Vered Maimon 2015 Fall: Reassessing what early photography meant to its makers and viewers
Taconite Dreams The Struggle to Sustain Mining on Minnesota’s Iron Range, 1915-2000 Jeffrey T. Manuel 2015 Fall: The first history of the fight to maintain an industry and a way of life on Minnesota’s Iron Range
Peace Corps Fantasies How Development Shaped the Global Sixties Molly Geidel 2015 Fall: How the 1960s Peace Corps’ gendered modernization ideology shaped social movements across the Americas
All Thoughts Are Equal Laruelle and Nonhuman Philosophy John Ó Maoilearca 2015 Fall: A much-needed illumination of the “non-philosophy” of François Laruelle
Barnstorming the Prairies How Aerial Vision Shaped the Midwest Jason Weems 2015 Fall: How flight led to a new view of the Midwest, making it the center of the nation in more ways than one
Myths of the Rune Stone Viking Martyrs and the Birthplace of America David M. Krueger 2015 Fall: Why the Kensington Rune Stone myth matters to American culture
Tongzhi Living Men Attracted to Men in Postsocialist China Tiantian Zheng 2015 Fall: A revealing study of men attracted to men trying to create community in a modern Chinese city
Jewels of the Plains Wildflowers of the Great Plains Grasslands and Hills Claude A. Barr 2015 Fall: A revised edition of the classic guide to the wildflowers of the Great Plains
Death beyond Disavowal The Impossible Politics of Difference Grace Kyungwon Hong 2015 Fall: Women of color feminism should have a voice in all discussions of contemporary neoliberalism
Barry Le Va The Aesthetic Aftermath Michael Maizels 2015 Fall: A pioneering study of one of contemporary art’s most compelling artists—and a new window on an era of social unrest
Simultaneous Worlds Global Science Fiction Cinema Jennifer L. Feeley and Sarah Ann Wells, Editors 2015 Fall: Reframes science fiction cinema as a global genre
Improper Names Collective Pseudonyms from the Luddites to Anonymous Marco Deseriis 2015 Fall: The first comprehensive analysis of the shared pseudonym, a collective strategy to build symbolic power that challenges established forms of political and aesthetic representation
The Challenge of Surrealism The Correspondence of Theodor W. Adorno and Elisabeth Lenk Elisabeth Lenk and Theodor W. Adorno Susan H. Gillespie, Editor 2015 Fall: An epistolary treasure trove and a newly contextualized look at philosopher Theodor W. Adorno
Border Walls Gone Green Nature and Anti-immigrant Politics in America John Hultgren 2015 Fall: Why anti-immigration environmentalists need to reconsider their motives
The Birchwood Cafe Cookbook Good Real Food Tracy Singleton and Marshall Paulsen 2015 Fall: Bring the beloved Birchwood Cafe’s kitchen home with recipes, insights, and stories
Portage A Family, a Canoe, and the Search for the Good Life Sue Leaf 2015 Fall: North American waterways by canoe: a memoir of family and nature, history and culture, along the rivers
Minnesota Modern Architecture and Life at Midcentury Larry Millett 2015 Fall: An expert, illustrated guide through the style that defined midcentury Minnesota
The Art of Wonder Inspiration, Creativity, and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Editor 2015 Fall: The setup was open-ended and deceptively simple: muse about art and the nature of creativity and wonder
The Straight Line How the Fringe Science of Ex-Gay Therapy Reoriented Sexuality Tom Waidzunas 2015 Fall: The consequences, for science as well as public policy, of relegating ex-gay therapies to the scientific fringe
Early Blues The First Stars of Blues Guitar Jas Obrecht 2015 Fall: The history of early blues guitar, with portraits of its pioneers and first stars
A Good Investment? Philanthropy and the Marketing of Race in an Urban Public School Amy Brown 2015 Fall: How privatized education funding reinforces race and class inequities
Everybody’s Heard about the Bird The True Story of 1960s Rock ’n’ Roll in Minnesota Rick Shefchik 2015 Fall: The first comprehensive history to trace the evolution of Minnesota 1960s rock and roll
Cartography of Exhaustion Nihilism Inside Out Peter Pál Pelbart 2015 Fall: A meditation on the possibility of fighting off the exhaustion of our contemporary age of communicative and connective excess
The Beginning and End of Rape Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America Sarah Deer 2015 Fall: How to address widespread violence against Native women—practically, theoretically, and legally—from the foremost advocate for understanding and change
Tracks in the Wild Betsy Bowen 2015 Fall: A beautiful children’s book detailing Minnesota’s northwoods animals and their tracks
How to Talk about Videogames Ian Bogost 2015 Fall: A fond look at the preposterous—and yet essential—pursuit of games criticism
Our Own Image A Story of a Māori Filmmaker Barry Barclay 2015 Fall: An insightful look at the introduction of Fourth Cinema into the mainstream
Last Project Standing Civics and Sympathy in Post-Welfare Chicago Catherine Fennell 2015 Fall: How the aftermath of public housing became an education in the rights and duties of belonging to the city
Mechademia 10 World Renewal Frenchy Lunning, Editor 2015 Fall: The ongoing effects of 3/11 in Japan through anime and manga
Shipwreck Modernity Ecologies of Globalization, 1550–1719 Steve Mentz 2015 Fall: The familiar story of shipwreck revealed as an allegory of ecological catastrophe
Indifference to Difference On Queer Universalism Madhavi Menon 2015 Fall: A thought-provoking argument for abandoning identity politics
Multiple Autisms Spectrums of Advocacy and Genomic Science Jennifer S. Singh 2016 Spring: Investigates the ever-expanding meanings of autism to those who study the disorder and to those who live with it
Berlin Replayed Cinema and Urban Nostalgia in the Postwall Era Brigitta B. Wagner 2016 Spring: How film has helped Berlin reinvent itself by creating nostalgia for its better pasts
Mandela’s Dark Years A Political Theory of Dreaming Sharon Sliwinski 2016 Spring: Inspired by one of Nelson Mandela’s recurring nightmares, Mandela’s Dark Years offers a political reading of dream-life
The Different Modes of Existence Etienne Souriau 2015 Fall: Exploring the aesthetic depths of the various modes of existence by one of France’s most heralded but forgotten thinkers of existential pluralism
Militarizing the Environment Climate Change and the Security State Robert P. Marzec 2016 Spring: How ideas of coexisting with the planet are being replaced by a militarized vision of adaptation
Our Gang A Racial History of The Little Rascals Julia Lee 2015 Fall: Behind the scenes of The Little Rascals and the America that made them
Illegal Literature Toward a Disruptive Creativity David S. Roh 2015 Fall: “Illegal” publications have real value for society and culture
Dead Matter The Meaning of Iconic Corpses Margaret Schwartz 2015 Fall: A corpse is much more than a dead body
Becoming Past History in Contemporary Art Jane Blocker 2015 Fall: A brilliantly argued call for the presence of time and history in art today
The Suburban Church Modernism and Community in Postwar America Gretchen Buggeln 2015 Fall: A richly illustrated history of midcentury modern suburban churches