Literature

The Robotic Imaginary The Human and the Price of Dehumanized Labor Jennifer Rhee 2018 Fall

Tracing the connections between human-like robots and AI at the site of dehumanization and exploited labor

Hush Hush, Forest Mary Casanova 2018 Fall

Lyrical words and elegant woodcuts capture the quiet beauty of the forest as day fades to night and autumn gives way to the North Woods winter

Scenarios II Signs of Life; Even Dwarfs Started Small; Fata Morgana; Heart of Glass Werner Herzog 2018 Fall

The second in a series: the master filmmaker’s prose scenarios for four of his notable films

Dead Man’s Rapids William Durbin and Barbara Durbin 2018 Fall

The further adventures of a boy discovering the challenges and the humor of a log drive in Minnesota’s north woods in 1899

Fearless Ivan and His Faithful Horse Double-Hump A Russian Folk Tale Pyotr Yershov and Jack Zipes 2018 Spring

A classic Russian tale retold for our time by an eminent folklorist

Circulating Queerness Before the Gay and Lesbian Novel Natasha Hurley 2018 Spring

A new history of the queer novel shows its role in constructing gay and lesbian lives

Hybrid Child A Novel Mariko Ōhara 2018 Spring

A classic of Japanese speculative fiction that blurs the line between consumption and creation when a cyborg assumes the form and spirit of a murdered child

Isabelle Day Refuses to Die of a Broken Heart Jane St. Anthony 2018 Spring

How can Isabelle ever express to Margaret and Grace how grateful she is for their friendship, just when she needed it most?

Wild Child Intensive Parenting and Posthumanist Ethics Naomi Morgenstern 2018 Spring

Exploring how the figure of the “wild child” in contemporary fiction grapples with contemporary cultural anxieties about reproductive ethics and the future of humanity

The Improvisatore A Novel of Italy Hans Christian Andersen 2018 Spring

A semi-autobiographical novel inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s travels in Italy—and one of the author’s best-known works in his native Denmark

The Right to Be Cold One Woman’s Fight to Protect the Arctic and Save the Planet from Climate Change Sheila Watt-Cloutier 2018 Spring

A “courageous and revelatory memoir” (Naomi Klein) chronicling the life of the leading Indigenous climate change, cultural, and human rights advocate

Inside the Gate Sigrid Undset’s Life at Bjerkebæk Nan Bentzen Skille 2018 Spring

Nobel Prize winner Sigrid Undset’s life at Bjerkebæk, her retreat in Lillehammer, Norway

Once in a Blue Moon Lodge A Novel Lorna Landvik 2018 Spring

The long-awaited sequel to Lorna Landvik’s best-selling Patty Jane’s House of Curl: a story brimming with life, humor, and hope

Wild Mares My Lesbian Back-to-the-Land Life Dianna Hunter 2018 Spring

A wry memoir of growing up, coming out, and going back to the land as a lesbian feminist in the rural Midwest of the 1960s and 70s

The Infamous Harry Hayward A True Account of Murder and Mesmerism in Gilded Age Minneapolis Shawn Francis Peters 2018 Spring

A fascinating tale of seduction, murder, fraud, coercion—and the trial of the “Minneapolis Monster”

Coming soon

University of Minnesota Press

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