Forthcoming Titles
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The Political Arrays of American Indian Literary History James H. Cox 2019 Fall
- Bringing fresh insight to a century of writing by Native Americans
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Organize Timon Beyes, Reinhold Martin and Lisa Conrad 2019 Fall
- A pioneering systematic inquiry into—and mapping of—the field of media and organization
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Schizogenesis The Art of Rosemarie Trockel Katherine Guinness 2019 Fall
- A deep analysis of an enigmatic artist whose oeuvre opens new spaces for understanding feminism, the body, and identity
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Afrotopia Felwine Sarr 2019 Fall
- A vibrant meditation and poetic call for an African utopian philosophy of self-reinvention for the twenty-first century
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How Not to Make a Human Pets, Feral Children, Worms, Sky Burial, Oysters Karl Steel 2019 Fall
- From pet keeping to sky burials, a posthuman and ecocritical interrogation of and challenge to human particularity in medieval texts
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Birds in Minnesota Revised and Expanded Edition Robert B. Janssen 2019 Fall
- A comprehensive update of the classic from the state’s foremost expert
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Degrees of Freedom The Origins of Civil Rights in Minnesota, 1865–1912 William D. Green 2020 Spring
- The true story, and the black citizens, behind the evolution of racial equality in Minnesota
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Harriet Bart Abracadabra and Other Forms of Protection Laura Wertheim Joseph, Editor 2019 Fall
- A retrospective and creatively collaborative review of this international feminist conceptual artist
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The Decision of Desire Silvia Lippi 2020 Spring
- A unique rereading of Lacan’s theory of desire and its link to masochism, joy, mysticism, death, and feminine jouissance
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Perpetual Motion Dance, Digital Cultures, and the Common Harmony Bench 2020 Spring
- A new exploration of how digital media assert the relevance of dance in a wired world
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Clocking Out The Machinery of Life in 1960s Italian Cinema Karen Pinkus 2020 Spring
- An original reflection on Italy’s postwar boom considers potentials for resistance in today’s neoliberal (dis)order
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Circuit Listening Chinese Popular Music in the Global 1960s Andrew F. Jones 2020 Spring
- How the Chinese pop of the 1960s participated in a global musical revolution
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Urbanism without Guarantees The Everyday Life of a Gentrifying West Side Neighborhood Christian M. Anderson 2020 Spring
- A unique more-than-capitalist take on urban dynamics
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Hacked Transmissions Technology and Connective Activism in Italy Alessandra Renzi 2020 Spring
- Mapping the transformation of media activism from the seventies to the present day
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Fishing! A Novel Sarah Stonich 2020 Spring
- A hilarious saga of fishing, family, and three generations of tough, independent women—the first in a trilogy
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Grocery Activism The Radical History of Food Cooperatives in Minnesota Craig B. Upright 2020 Spring
- A key period in the history of food cooperatives that continues to influence how we purchase organic food today
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Curiosity Studies A New Ecology of Knowledge Perry Zurn and Arjun Shankar, Editors 2020 Spring
- The first English-language collection to establish curiosity studies as a unique field
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The Metabolist Imagination Visions of the City in Postwar Japanese Architecture and Science Fiction William O. Gardner 2020 Spring
- Japan’s postwar urban imagination through the Metabolism architecture movement and visionary science fiction authors
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Modern Housing Catherine Bauer 2020 Spring
- The original guide on modern housing from the premier expert and activist in the public housing movement
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The Shapes of Fancy Reading for Queer Desire in Early Modern Literature Christine Varnado 2020 Spring
- Exploring forms of desire unaccounted for in previous histories of sexuality
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Listening Interviews, 1970–1989 Jonathan Cott 2020 Spring
- A wide-ranging collection of interviews and profiles from twenty years of Jonathan Cott’s remarkable writings