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The Elements of Foucault Gregg Lambert 2020 Spring: A new conceptual diagram of Foucault’s original vision of the biopolitical order
Bring That Beat Back How Sampling Built Hip-Hop Nate Patrin 2020 Spring: How sampling remade hip-hop over forty years, from pioneering superstar Grandmaster Flash through crate-digging preservationist and innovator Madlib
Lost Illusions Honoré de Balzac 2020 Spring: A new annotated translation of the keystone of Balzac’s Comédie Humaine—a sweeping narrative of corrupted idealism in a cynical urban milieu
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
Action at a Distance John Durham Peters, Florian Sprenger and Christina Vagt 2020 Fall: How are human actions shaped by the materiality of media?
Piotr Szyhalski We Are Working All the Time! Diane Mullin, Editor 2020 Spring: The first comprehensive study of this innovative and interactive multimedia artist
Isherwood in Transit James J. Berg and Chris Freeman, Editors 2020 Spring: New perspectives on Christopher Isherwood as a searching and transnational writer
Arrested Welcome Hospitality in Contemporary Art Irina Aristarkhova 2020 Spring: Interpreting the meaning of hospitality in an unwelcoming political moment
Minnesota’s Geologist The Life of Newton Horace Winchell Sue Leaf 2020 Spring: The story of the scientist who first mapped Minnesota’s geology, set against the backdrop of early scientific inquiry in the state
The Shared Room Kao Kalia Yang 2020 Spring: A family gradually moves forward after the loss of a child—a story for readers of all ages
Things Worth Keeping The Value of Attachment in a Disposable World Christine Harold 2020 Spring: A timely examination of the attachments we form to objects and how they might be used to reduce waste
Documents of Doubt The Photographic Conditions of Conceptual Art Heather Diack 2020 Spring: A major reassessment of photography’s pivotal role in 1960s conceptual art
Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information, Volume II Volume II: Supplemental Texts Gilbert Simondon 2020 Spring: Unique access to archival material of a major thinker, including presentations, early drafts, and a thorough introduction to the history of the philosophical notion of the individual
Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information Gilbert Simondon 2020 Spring: A long-awaited translation on the philosophical relation between technology, the individual, and milieu of the living
Thinking Plant Animal Human Encounters with Communities of Difference David Wood 2020 Spring: Collected essays by a leading philosopher situating the question of the animal in the broader context of a relational ontology
Invoking Hope Theory and Utopia in Dark Times Phillip E. Wegner 2020 Spring: An appeal for the importance of theory, utopia, and close consideration of our contemporary dark times
In the Night of Memory A Novel Linda LeGarde Grover 2020 Fall: Two lost sisters find family, and themselves, among the voices of an Ojibwe reservation
Chasing World-Class Urbanism Global Policy versus Everyday Survival in Buenos Aires Jacob Lederman 2020 Fall: Questions increasingly dominant urban planning orthodoxies and whether they truly serve everyday city dwellers
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 Invention of Public Space Designing for Inclusion in Lindsay’s New York Mariana Mogilevich 2020 Spring: The interplay of psychology, design, and politics in experiments with urban open space
Acid Revival The Psychedelic Renaissance and the Quest for Medical Legitimacy Danielle Giffort 2020 Fall: A vivid analysis of the history and revival of clinical psychedelic science
Tell Me Your Names and I Will Testify Essays Carolyn Holbrook 2020 Spring: The compassionate and redemptive story of a prominent Black woman in the Twin Cities literary community
The Death of Asylum Hidden Geographies of the Enforcement Archipelago Alison Mountz 2020 Spring: Investigating the global system of detention centers that imprison asylum seekers and conceal persistent human rights violations
A Silvan Tomkins Handbook Foundations for Affect Theory Adam J. Frank and Elizabeth A. Wilson 2020 Fall: An accessible guide to the work of American psychologist and affect theorist Silvan Tomkins
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
The Wedding Heard ’Round the World America’s First Gay Marriage Michael McConnell 2020 Fall: Forty-four years after two men married in a legal ceremony in Minnesota, the Supreme Court has decided the question first raised by these gay pioneers
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
Practicing the Good Desire and Boredom in Soviet Socialism Keti Chukhrov 2020 Spring: A philosophical consideration of Soviet Socialism that reveals the hidden desire for capitalism in contemporary anticapitalist discourse and theory
One Summer Up North John Owens 2020 Fall: A wordless picture-book journey through the Boundary Waters, canoeing and camping with a family as they encounter the northwoods wilderness in all its spectacular beauty
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
"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
Gaian Systems Lynn Margulis, Neocybernetics, and the End of the Anthropocene Bruce Clarke 2020 Fall: A groundbreaking look at Gaia theory’s intersections with neocybernetic systems theory
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
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
Cruelty as Citizenship How Migrant Suffering Sustains White Democracy 2020 Fall: Why are immigrants from Mexico and Latin America such an affectively charged population for political conservatives?
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
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
Infrastructures of Apocalypse American Literature and the Nuclear Complex Jessica Hurley 2020 Fall: A new approach to the vast nuclear infrastructure and the apocalypses it produces, focusing on Black, queer, Indigenous, and Asian American literatures
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
Black Food Matters Racial Justice in the Wake of Food Justice Hanna Garth and Ashanté M. Reese, Editors 2020 Fall: An in-depth look at Black food and the challenges it faces today
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
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