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Dreaming in Dark Times Six Exercises in Political Thought Sharon Sliwinski 2017 Spring: A political theory of dream-life
For All Waters Finding Ourselves in Early Modern Wetscapes Lowell Duckert 2017 Spring: The Shakespearean era’s wet writers guide our eco-way today
Shelter Off the Grid in the Mostly Magnetic North Sarah Stonich 2017 Spring: A northwoods exploration of family, immigration, and connection to the land
Metagaming Playing, Competing, Spectating, Cheating, Trading, Making, and Breaking Videogames Stephanie Boluk and Patrick LeMieux 2017 Spring: A playful and provocative call to stop playing videogames and begin making metagames
The Salvager The Life of Captain Tom Reid on the Great Lakes Mary Frances Doner 2017 Spring: “The dramatic story of great disasters and of the gambles that are the life and blood of the salvage business.” —The New York Times
Out of the Blue New Short Fiction from Iceland 2017 Spring: A groundbreaking collection of fiction from Iceland’s best contemporary authors
Flying Funny My Life without a Net Dudley Riggs 2017 Spring: The fun of storytelling with the wry insights and observations of growing up in show business
White Birch, Red Hawthorn A Memoir Nora Murphy 2017 Spring: A personal investigation into the multigenerational cost of immigration and genocide in the American heartland
Creaturely Love How Desire Makes Us More and Less Than Human Dominic Pettman 2017 Spring: A fascinating look at the role of animals in human love through the ages
Philosophy after Friendship Deleuze’s Conceptual Personae Gregg Lambert 2017 Spring: Redefining the goals of future political philosophy—and removing its justification for war
It Won’t Be Easy An Exceedingly Honest (and Slightly Unprofessional) Love Letter to Teaching Tom Rademacher 2017 Spring: A frank and funny behind-the-scenes look at teaching from a hard-working and highly entertaining Teacher of the Year
Deep Woods, Wild Waters A Memoir Douglas Wood 2017 Spring: The author of Old Turtle and a longtime wilderness guide charts a journey through the wilds of nature and the twists and turns of daily life
Savory Sweet Simple Preserves from a Northern Kitchen Beth Dooley and Mette Nielsen 2017 Spring: Not your grandmother’s canning cookbook
The Language of Plants Science, Philosophy, Literature Monica Gagliano, John C. Ryan and Patrícia Vieira, Editors 2017 Spring: Exploring the idea that plants can think, feel, and communicate as a way of reconfiguring our relationship with the natural world
The Man Who Walked in Color Georges Didi-Huberman 2017 Spring: A renowned art historian’s careful reading of the work of American artist James Turrell
Italian Chronicles Stendhal 2017 Spring: Nine bloody, revenge-filled tales—several translated for the first time—from French writer Stendhal
F. Scott Fitzgerald in Minnesota The Writer and His Friends at Home Dave Page 2017 Spring: A look at the life of the Great American Novelist in St. Paul
So Famous and So Gay The Fabulous Potency of Truman Capote and Gertrude Stein Jeff Solomon 2017 Spring: How and why, in a time of homophobia and closeted homosexuality, did two openly gay writers become mass-market celebrities?
Shopping Town Designing the City in Suburban America Victor Gruen Anette Baldauf, Editor 2017 Spring: For the first time in English, the “father of the shopping mall” tells his life story
Who Writes for Black Children? African American Children’s Literature before 1900 Katharine Capshaw and Anna Mae Duane, Editors 2017 Spring: Innovative essays that challenge us to imagine African American children’s literature during the slavery and reconstruction eras
Seizing Jerusalem The Architectures of Unilateral Unification Alona Nitzan-Shiftan 2017 Spring: Reveals the ways architectural modernism and Zionism have intertwined to imagine and reshape the city
Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Heather Anne Swanson, Elaine Gan and Nils Bubandt, Editors 2017 Spring: Can humans and other species continue to inhabit the earth together?
A Third University Is Possible la paperson 2017 Spring: Uncovering the decolonizing ghost in the colonizing machine
Brouhaha Worlds of the Contemporary Lionel Ruffel 2017 Spring: A rigorous inquiry into the question of the “contemporary” in an era of hypermediation and globalization
Grounded Authority The Algonquins of Barriere Lake against the State Shiri Pasternak 2017 Spring: A rare, in-depth critique of federal land claims policy in Canada
The Sacred Era A Novel Yoshio Aramaki 2017 Spring: A brilliant work of speculative fiction, blending science and metaphysics, by a Japanese master of the 1970s New Wave
Voices of Rondo Oral Histories of Saint Paul’s Historic Black Community 2017 Fall: A look at the historic Rondo neighborhood of Saint Paul through the eyes of thirty-three former residents—back in print
Subprime Health Debt and Race in U.S. Medicine Nadine Ehlers and Leslie R. Hinkson, Editors 2017 Fall: Moving beyond discussions of racial genomics, an interdisciplinary exploration of race-based medicine
The Microbial State Global Thriving and the Body Politic Stefanie R. Fishel 2017 Fall: An innovative exploration of the metaphorical power of bodies on global politics and the potential for the planet’s future
Inheriting Possibility Social Reproduction and Quantification in Education Ezekiel J. Dixon-Román 2017 Fall: Outstanding Book Award from the American Educational Research Association: From the SAT to social mobility statistics, examining quantitative measurements of human learning and development while rethinking their possibilities
Transhumanism Evolutionary Futurism and the Human Technologies of Utopia Andrew Pilsch 2017 Fall: Exploring the rich history and utopian potential of transhumanism’s belief that humanity is on the cusp of radical evolutionary transformation
Along the Journey River A Mystery Carole laFavor 2017 Fall: When tribal traditions run strong, is it possible to love an “other”?
A Shadow over Palestine The Imperial Life of Race in America Keith P. Feldman 2017 Fall: How Israel and Palestine shaped the post–World War II politics of race in the United States
Evil Dead Center A Mystery Carole laFavor 2017 Fall: Renee is back at it, this time uncovering a dark web with far reaches and implications
Ice-Out Mary Casanova 2017 Fall: A young man’s future—and a budding romance—get caught up in bootlegging, blackmail, corruption, and murder along the U.S.–Canadian border in the 1920s
Enchantment Lake A Northwoods Mystery Margi Preus 2017 Fall: What’s wild in the northwoods turns out to be mostly human, when seventeen-year-old Francie is drawn into the strange mysteries threatening her great aunts’ Minnesota Up North world
Pothole Confidential My Life as Mayor of Minneapolis R.T. Rybak 2017 Fall: A clear-eyed look inside the life and times of Minneapolis and its dynamic three-term mayor
Shareveillance The Dangers of Openly Sharing and Covertly Collecting Data Clare Birchall 2018 Spring: Cracking open the politics of transparency and secrecy
Fats Waller Maurice Waller and Anthony Calabrese 2017 Fall: The exuberant life and times of a jazz giant with an unmatched zest for life and music
UW Struggle When a State Attacks Its University Chuck Rybak 2018 Spring: A Wisconsin story that serves as a national warning
Infinite Variety The Life and Legend of the Marchesa Casati, The Ultimate Edition Scot D. Ryersson and Michael Orlando Yaccarino 2017 Fall: The biography of the most dazzling artistic and fashion muse of the twentieth century—in a fully revised and spectacularly illustrated edition
Border Country The Northwoods Canoe Journals of Howard Greene, 1906–1916 Martha Greene Phillips 2017 Spring: A unique archival account of the early twentieth-century north woods, with friends and family, canoes, a ready wit, and a Graflex camera
Scenarios Aguirre, the Wrath of God; Every Man for Himself and God Against All; Land of Silence and Darkness; Fitzcarraldo Werner Herzog 2017 Fall: The first in a series: Urtexts of the quintessential early films of Werner Herzog
Care of the Species Races of Corn and the Science of Plant Biodiversity John Hartigan Jr. 2017 Fall: Darwin meets Foucault in this engrossing ethnography of plants, race, and biodiversity
Miles Lord The Maverick Judge Who Brought Corporate America to Justice Roberta Walburn None None: The life of a crusading federal judge who stood up and fought for “the little guy”
Hard Bodies Contemporary Japanese Lacquer Sculpture Andreas Marks 2017 Fall: It’s an art nearly as old as civilization itself—with a twenty-first century attitude
Ready Player Two Women Gamers and Designed Identity Shira Chess 2017 Fall: A timely look at the implicit biases in video games as they construct and define feminine identity
Seven Ways to Trick a Troll Lise Lunge-Larsen 2017 Fall: In seven whimsical, entertaining folktales, children discover trolls’ weaknesses, as well as their own strengths
Officially Indian Symbols that Define the United States Cécile Ganteaume 2017 Fall: A wide-ranging exploration of the symbolic importance of American Indians in the visual language of U.S. democracy
Postcolonial Automobility Car Culture in West Africa Lindsey B. Green-Simms 2017 Fall: Globalizing the car’s role in modern culture