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Brown Threat Identification in the Security State Kumarini Silva 2016 Fall: Revealing a post-9/11 America in which a dubious identity concept has become a dragnet for the “deviant”
Life, Emergent The Social in the Afterlives of Violence Yasmeen Arif 2016 Fall: Understanding biopolitics anew, through life and not death, in the aftermath of mass violence
The Child to Come Life after the Human Catastrophe Rebekah Sheldon 2016 Fall: A bold new reading of the child for the twenty-first century, with implications for contemporary environmentalism
Bar Yarns and Manic-Depressive Mixtapes Jim Walsh on Music from Minneapolis to the Outer Limits Jim Walsh 2016 Fall: Thirty years of pop, funk, rock and roll, up close and personal, from veteran Twin Cities journalist Jim Walsh
Object-Oriented Feminism Katherine Behar, Editor 2016 Fall: A discipline-expanding book that explores the political and ethical potential of being an object
Downed by Friendly Fire Black Girls, White Girls, and Suburban Schooling Signithia Fordham 2016 Fall: Rehabilitating the meaning of gender-specific violence
From America to Norway III Norwegian-American Immigrant Letters 1838-1914, Volume III: 1893-1914 Orm Øverland, Editor 2016 Fall: The experience of early Norwegian–American immigrants, told in their letters home
Canoes A Natural History in North America Mark Neuzil and Norman Sims 2016 Fall: A natural history of one of North America’s most enduring cultural artifacts
Inter/Nationalism Decolonizing Native America and Palestine Steven Salaita 2016 Fall: Connecting the scholarship and activism of Indigenous America and Palestine
The Perversity of Things Hugo Gernsback on Media, Tinkering, and Scientifiction Hugo Gernsback 2016 Fall: The founder of science fiction and his other inventions
Marxist Thought and the City Henri Lefebvre 2016 Fall: For the first time in English, Lefebvre’s essential work on how Marx and Engels conceptualized the development of the city
California Mission Landscapes Race, Memory, and the Politics of Heritage Elizabeth Kryder-Reid 2016 Fall: How iconic American places cultivate and conceal contested pasts
Against Purity Living Ethically in Compromised Times Alexis Shotwell 2016 Fall: Why contamination and compromise might be a starting point for doing something, instead of a reason to give up
Good Morning Blues The Autobiography of Count Basie Count Basie 2016 Fall: The riveting autobiography of Count Basie
Mirror Affect Seeing Self, Observing Others in Contemporary Art Cristina Albu 2016 Fall: Examining reflective art and its impact on how we see ourselves and fellow spectators
The Assemblage Brain Sense Making in Neuroculture Tony D. Sampson 2017 Spring: A radical new theory of the brain bridging science, philosophy, art, and politics
Anti-Book On the Art and Politics of Radical Publishing Nicholas Thoburn 2016 Fall: A major new look at experimental political writing and publishing
Mixed Realism Videogames and the Violence of Fiction Timothy J. Welsh 2016 Fall: What can be learned from reading videogames and novels through the same lens?
The Ford Century in Minnesota Brian McMahon 2016 Fall: How the Ford Motor Company transformed Minnesota over the past 100 years
Like Clockwork Steampunk Pasts, Presents, and Futures Rachel A. Bowser and Brian Croxall, Editors 2016 Fall: From Dragon*Con to IBM’s big data and neo-Victorianism to disability studies—the fascinating rise of an international subculture
Indirect Action Schizophrenia, Epilepsy, AIDS, and the Course of Health Activism Lisa Diedrich 2016 Fall: The interconnectedness of illness, thought, and activism prior to the arrival of AIDS in the United States
From America to Norway IV Norwegian-American Immigrant Letters 1838–1914, Volume IV: Indexes Orm Øverland, Editor 2018 Spring: The experience of early Norwegian-American immigrants, told in their letters home—now discoverable in an extensive index
Utopia from Thomas More to Walter Benjamin Miguel Abensour 2017 Spring: An insightful philosophical investigation and reading of the concept of utopia
Fresh from the Garden An Organic Guide to Growing Vegetables, Berries, and Herbs in Cold Climates John Whitman 2016 Fall: Grow your own vegetables, berries, and herbs with the fourth book in the best-selling cold climate gardening series
Of Sheep, Oranges, and Yeast A Multispecies Impression Julian Yates 2017 Spring: Refocusing our lens on literature and history to lives beyond the human
Letter to an Inuk from 2022 Jean Malaurie 2017 Spring: A vibrant call for cultural preservation
The Book of the Dead Shinobu Orikuchi 2016 Fall: The first complete English translation of a Japanese literary masterpiece
The Nature of the Path Reading a West African Road Marcus Filippello 2017 Spring: Sometimes a road is more than just a road
Gold Experience Following Prince in the ’90s Jim Walsh 2017 Spring: Rare interviews, live reviews, little known stories, and close encounters: Prince in a time of crazy brilliant music and life
Compulsory Education and the Dispossession of Youth in a Prison School Sabina E. Vaught 2017 Spring: A groundbreaking look at America’s public education system through the lens of prison schooling
The Financial Imaginary Economic Mystification and the Limits of Realist Fiction Alison Shonkwiler 2017 Spring: Exploring how contemporary realist fiction confronts the challenges of financial abstraction and the return to Gilded Age levels of inequality
Curated Decay Heritage beyond Saving Caitlin DeSilvey 2017 Spring: A bold new approach to heritage conservation that embraces change and accommodates decay
The Stakes of Exposure Anxious Bodies in Postwar Japanese Art Namiko Kunimoto 2017 Spring: The first major English-language study of Japan’s most important postwar artists
Compound Solutions Pharmaceutical Alternatives for Global Health Susan Craddock 2017 Spring: An unprecedented look at the possibilities and limitations of humanitarian drug development
Asking the Audience Participatory Art in 1980s New York Adair Rounthwaite 2017 Spring: How participatory art enabled collaboration between institutions and politicized artists in 1980s New York
Carceral Humanitarianism Logics of Refugee Detention Kelly Oliver 2017 Spring: Considering the uneasy alliance between humanitarian aid, human rights, and military operations
The Anguish of Thought Évelyne Grossman 2017 Spring: A groundbreaking inquiry into modernist thinkers, anxiety, and writing
Creekfinding A True Story Jacqueline Briggs Martin 2017 Spring: An enchanting picture book about restoring a creek, with all the wildlife it once hosted, in a farm field in Iowa. Ages 4-9.
Utopian Television Rossellini, Watkins, and Godard beyond Cinema Michael Cramer 2017 Spring: The first book on three great filmmakers’ efforts to transform television
Juárez Girls Rising Transformative Education in Times of Dystopia Claudia G. Cervantes-Soon 2017 Spring: Through the voices of high school girls in Ciudad Juárez, understanding how education can promote self-empowerment and resistance against injustice and violence
Body Modern Fritz Kahn, Scientific Illustration, and the Homuncular Subject Michael Sappol 2017 Spring: An imaginative exploration of how Fritz Kahn’s popular scientific illustrations visualized and performed industrial modernity
First Thought Conversations with Allen Ginsberg Michael Schumacher, Editor 2017 Spring: The Beat Generation’s best-known poet, in previously uncollected interviews, on reading and writing, poetry and politics
You’re Sending Me Where? Dispatches from Summer Camp Eric Dregni 2017 Spring: Summer camp is wild, but what happens when you add Italians to the mix?
Sexography Sex Work in Documentary Nicholas de Villiers 2017 Spring: A bold challenge to rethink the ways we view sex work and documentary film
Matters of Care Speculative Ethics in More Than Human Worlds María Puig de la Bellacasa 2017 Spring: Challenging the view that caring is only human
Film as Philosophy Bernd Herzogenrath, Editor 2017 Spring: Film studies meets philosophy as never before
Anthropocene Feminism Richard Grusin, Editor 2017 Spring: A stunning experiment in thinking of the Anthropocene through feminism and queer theory
From Light to Dark Daylight, Illumination, and Gloom Tim Edensor 2017 Spring: A fascinating and unprecedented look at how illumination and darkness shape our experiences across history and space
Queer Game Studies Bonnie Ruberg and Adrienne Shaw, Editors 2017 Spring: A landmark anthology opens video game studies to queer culture
Bodies in Suspense Time and Affect in Cinema Alanna Thain 2017 Spring: How can cinema make us live time?