Collections
- Playing with the Book Victorian Movable Picture Books and the Child Reader Hannah Field 2019 Spring
- A beautifully illustrated exploration of how Victorian novelty picture books reshape the ways children read and interact with texts
- Archives Andrew Lison, Marcel Mars, Tomislav Medak and Rick Prelinger 2019 Fall
- How digital networks and services bring the issues of archives out of the realm of institutions and into the lives of everyday users
- Philosophy of New Music Theodor W. Adorno Robert Hullot-Kentor, Editor 2019 Fall
- An indispensable key to Adorno’s influential oeuvre—now in paperback
- Burgers in Blackface Anti-Black Restaurants Then and Now Naa Oyo A. Kwate 2019 Fall
- A powerful account, and rebuke, of historical and contemporary racism in restaurant branding
- Beyond Education Radical Studying for Another World Eli Meyerhoff 2019 Fall
- A bold call to deromanticize education and reframe universities as terrains of struggle between alternative modes of studying and world-making
- Beyond the Meme Development and Structure in Cultural Evolution Alan C. Love and William C. Wimsatt, Editors 2019 Spring
- Interdisciplinary perspectives on cultural evolution that reject meme theory in favor of a complex understanding of dynamic change over time
- The Eloquent Screen A Rhetoric of Film Gilberto Perez 2019 Spring
- A lifetime of cinematic writing culminates in this breathtaking statement on film’s unique ability to move us
- Daring to Be Bad Radical Feminism in America 1967-1975, Thirtieth Anniversary Edition 2019 Fall
- An award-winning and canonical history of radical feminism, whose activist heat and intellectual audacity powered second-wave feminism—30th anniversary edition
- Everyday Equalities Making Multicultures in Settler Colonial Cities Ruth Fincher, Kurt Iveson, Helga Leitner and Valerie Preston 2019 Fall
- A timely new look at coexisting without assimilating in multicultural cities
- How to Do Things with Sensors Jennifer Gabrys 2019 Fall
- An investigation of how-to guides for sensor technologies
- Archives of Infamy Foucault on State Power in the Lives of Ordinary Citizens Nancy Luxon, Editor 2019 Spring
- Expanding the insights of Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault’s Disorderly Families into policing, public order, (in)justice, and daily life
- Standing with Standing Rock Voices from the #NoDAPL Movement Nick Estes and Jaskiran Dhillon, Editors 2019 Spring
- Dispatches of radical political engagement from people taking a stand against the Dakota Access Pipeline
- The Drink That Made Wisconsin Famous Beer and Brewing in the Badger State Doug Hoverson 2019 Spring
- From grain to glass—a complete illustrated history of brewing and breweries in the state more famous for beer than any other
- Town Hall Meetings and the Death of Deliberation Jonathan Beecher Field 2019 Fall
- Tracing the erosion of democratic norms in the US and the conditions that make it possible
- This Wound Is a World Billy-Ray Belcourt 2019 Fall
- The new edition of a prize-winning memoir-in-poems, a meditation on life as a queer Indigenous man—available for the first time in the United States
- The Political Arrays of American Indian Literary History James H. Cox 2019 Fall
- Bringing fresh insight to a century of writing by Native Americans
- The Complete and Original Norwegian Folktales of Asbjørnsen and Moe Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe 2019 Fall
- A new, definitive English translation of the celebrated story collection regarded as a landmark of Norwegian literature and culture
- Medical Technics Don Ihde 2020 Spring
- A personal account of the aging body and advanced technologies by a preeminent philosopher of technology
- Organize Timon Beyes, Reinhold Martin and Lisa Conrad 2019 Fall
- A pioneering systematic inquiry into—and mapping of—the field of media and organization
- Vital Forms Biological Art, Architecture, and the Dependencies of Life Jennifer Johung 2019 Fall
- Shows how the intersection of biotech, art, and architecture are transforming the world we live in
- Sensations of History Animation and New Media Art James J. Hodge 2019 Fall
- A phenomenological investigation into new media artwork and its relationship to history
- Cyclescapes of the Unequal City Bicycle Infrastructure and Uneven Development John G. Stehlin 2019 Spring
- A critical look at the political economy of urban bicycle infrastructure in the United States
- Laurentian Divide A Novel Sarah Stonich 2019 Fall
- Poignant portrayals of life on the edge in northern Minnesota border country—now in paper
- Jack and the Ghost Chan Poling 2019 Fall
- A gothic, lyrical evocation of a shipwreck, ghosts, and lost—and found—love in a North Shore town
- What God Is Honored Here? Writings on Miscarriage and Infant Loss by and for Native Women and Women of Color Shannon Gibney and Kao Kalia Yang, Editors 2019 Fall
- Native women and women of color poignantly share their pain, revelations, and hope after experiencing the traumas of miscarriage and infant loss
- Avant-Garde in the Cornfields Architecture, Landscape, and Preservation in New Harmony Ben Nicholson and Michelangelo Sabatino, Editors 2019 Spring
- A close examination of an iconic small town that gives boundless insights into architecture, landscape, preservation, and philanthropy
- When Time Warps The Lived Experience of Gender, Race, and Sexual Violence Megan Mae Burke 2019 Fall
- An inquiry into the phenomenology of “woman” based in the relationship between lived time and sexual violence
- Black Bourgeois Class and Sex in the Flesh Candice M. Jenkins 2019 Fall
- Exploring the forces that keep black people vulnerable even amid economically privileged lives
- Homesickness Of Trauma and the Longing for Place in a Changing Environment Ryan Hediger 2019 Fall
- Introducing a posthumanist concept of nostalgia to analyze steadily widening themes of animality, home, travel, slavery, shopping, and war in U.S. literature after 1945
- Queering Colonial Natal Indigeneity and the Violence of Belonging in Southern Africa T. J. Tallie 2019 Fall
- How were indigenous social practices deemed queer and aberrant by colonial forces?
- Variations on Media Thinking Siegfried Zielinski 2019 Fall
- A diverse, enriching volume of media analysis from a pioneering thinker in the field
- An Ecotopian Lexicon Matthew Schneider-Mayerson and Brent Ryan Bellamy, Editors 2019 Fall
- Presents thirty novel terms that do not yet exist in English to envision ways of responding to the environmental challenges of our generation
- Discourse, Figure Jean-François Lyotard 2020 Spring
- Lyotard’s earliest major work, available in English for the first time
- The Price of Nice How Good Intentions Maintain Educational Inequity Angelina E. Castagno, Editor 2019 Fall
- How being “nice” in school and university settings works to reinforce racialized, gendered, and (dis)ability-related inequities in education and society
- The Lost Brothers A Family’s Decades-Long Search Jack El-Hai 2019 Fall
- The dread, the drama, and the hope of a break in one of the country’s oldest active missing-child investigations
- Spoiler Alert A Critical Guide Aaron Jaffe 2020 Spring
- All of this information at our fingertips—and we might not need any of it
- Suspect Communities Anti-Muslim Racism and the Domestic War on Terror Nicole Nguyen 2019 Fall
- The first major qualitative study of “countering violent extremism” in key U.S. cities
- Bleak Joys Aesthetics of Ecology and Impossibility Matthew Fuller and Olga Goriunova 2019 Fall
- A philosophical and cultural distillation of the bleak joys in today’s ambivalent ecologies and patterns of life
- Aesthesis and Perceptronium On the Entanglement of Sensation, Cognition, and Matter Alexander Wilson 2019 Fall
- A new speculative ontology of aesthetics
- Johnny’s Pheasant Cheryl Minnema 2019 Fall
- An encounter with a pheasant (which may or may not be sleeping) takes a surprising turn in this sweetly serious and funny story of a Native American boy and his grandma
- The Alchemy of Meth A Decomposition Jason Pine 2019 Fall
- Meth cooks practice late industrial alchemy—transforming base materials, like lithium batteries and camping fuel, into gold
- Uproarious How Feminists and Other Subversive Comics Speak Truth Cynthia Willett and Julie Willett 2019 Fall
- A radical new approach to humor, where traditional targets become its agents
- Professor Berman The Last Lecture of Minnesota’s Greatest Public Historian Hy Berman 2019 Fall
- Behind the scenes of Minnesota history, by way of the engaging life story of the state’s best-known and beloved political observer
- Scenarios III Stroszek; Nosferatu, Phantom of the Night; Where the Green Ants Dream; Cobra Verde Werner Herzog 2019 Fall
- For the first time in English, and in his signature prose poetry, the film scripts of four of Werner Herzog’s early works
- The Trial of the Edmund Fitzgerald Eyewitness Accounts from the U.S. Coast Guard Hearings 2019 Fall
- A documentary drawn from testimony at the Coast Guard’s official inquiry looks anew at one of the most storied, and mysterious, shipwrecks in American history
- From Montaigne to Montaigne Claude Lévi-Strauss Emmanuel Désveaux, Editor 2019 Fall
- Two previously unpublished lectures charting the renowned anthropologist’s intellectual engagement with the sixteenth-century French essayist Michel de Montaigne
- Tony Oliva The Life and Times of a Minnesota Twins Legend Thom Henninger 2020 Spring
- The astounding success and personal struggle of the Twins’ beloved outfielder and batting champion—from his arrival from Cuba at age twenty-two to the present
- Sound, Image, Silence Art and the Aural Imagination in the Atlantic World Michael Gaudio 2019 Fall
- A visionary new approach to the Americas during the age of colonization, made by engaging with the aural aspects of supposedly “silent” images
- A to Zåäö Playing with History at the American Swedish Institute Nate Christopherson and Tara Sweeney 2019 Fall
- A playful picture-book tour of the Swedish alphabet, in which curious characters explore the American Swedish Institute
- LatinX Claudia Milian 2020 Spring
- Nationality is not enough to understand “Latin”-descended populations in the United States