University of Minnesota Press

01/10/2025

Willa Hammitt Brown's debut book on manhood, myth, and the American lumberjack is "an excellent addition to history collections," says Library Journal. https://www.libraryjournal.com/review/gentlemen-of-the-woods-manhood-myth-and-the-american-lumberjack-1813165

01/08/2025

A new book on F. Scott Fitzgerald sheds light on the author’s life and work 100 years post "Gatsby," as told by 23 writers.

01/07/2025

From lesser-known artists to big names, our staff and contributors compiled our favorite shows around the globe in a year of exceptional art.

01/07/2025

First releases of the new year!

-Solidarity Cities: Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation by Maliha Safri, Marianna Pavlovskaya, Stephen Healy, and Craig Borowiak. A new installment in our Diverse Economies and Livable Worlds Series, this book illuminates the extensive footprints of solidarity economies and the roles they play in communities.

-Futures of Digital Scholarly Editing, a collection of essays edited by Matt Cohen, Kenneth M. Price, and Caterina Bernardini. Addresses outdated technical infrastructures, new collaborations, ethics, access, and the evolution of textual scholarship.

-Nonbinary Jane Austen by Chris Washington: Part of our Forerunners series, a bold and provocative analysis of Jane Austen as an early gender abolitionist.

-Now in Paperback: Jonathan Cott's Listening: Interviews, 1970–1989, twenty-two interviews including Bob Dylan, Richard Gere, Werner Herzog, John Lennon, Carl Sagan, Elizabeth Taylor, J. G. Ballard. "As an interviewer, Cott is nimble, present, and staggeringly well-versed in an array of subjects." —Popmatters

01/06/2025

ICYMI Opinion | More catalogs from university presses started arriving almost immediately after the last roundup of spring titles appeared—and in going through them, a couple of topical clusters of books struck me as notable. Here is a quick overview. Quoted passages come from material provided by the publishers.

What do ant colonies, online subcultures, the publishing industry and the device you are using to read this all have in common? Each is, in some sense, a network embedded in still wider networks. They, like myriad other phenomena, can be depicted in geometric diagrams in which the components of a system (“vertices”) are connected by lines (“edges”) representing interactions or relationships.

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01/02/2025

Jessica Fuentes, Leslie Moody Castro, Gabriel Martinez, and Brandon Zech count down some of their favorite art books of 2024.

01/02/2025

Copperfield's Books in welcomes journalist and editor Liese Greensfelder for the launch of her endearing new memoir, 𝐴𝑐𝑐𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑆ℎ𝑒𝑝ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑑. Join us for a discussion followed by a Q&A and book signing! Register for free: https://bit.ly/LieseGreensfelder

University of Minnesota Press

12/23/2024

Larry Millett!

The BrandNewToYou shows start today!

First up is a MASSIVE show. In hour one, Aaron Rupar talks politics, and Brittlestar talks about how cats will save us from fascism!

Hour two is University of Minnesota Press author (one of my all-time favorites) !

3-5 PM On AM950Radio, 9 PM on Heartland Signal WCPT 820 - Chicago's Progressive Talk, and in the nighttime on Alternative Talk 1150 KKNW!

12/20/2024

❤️ to see The Ultimate MN Cookie Book in this gorgeous spread!

The holiday season is upon us, and there’s truly no place like home for the holidays! This year, we’re embracing the warmth and joy of cherished traditions that bring families and friends together. From the laughter of game nights to the sweet aroma of a freshly baked cake and the nostalgic melo...

12/17/2024

New books dropping today!

-Second-Order Preservation: Social Justice and Climate Action through Heritage Policy by Erica Avrami (Columbia GSAPP)

Questioning the criteria by which value is ascribed to historic buildings and neighborhoods, Avrami elucidates and transforms how—and which—claims to place become codified in and reinforced through public policy. Avrami was featured in the Nov. 30th The New York Times article "How Can We Save the Best Parts of Our Cities?"

"In this essential book, Erica Avrami blows the whistle on preservation’s limits and its complicity with societal injustices." —Jennifer Minner

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-Digital Futures of Graduate Study in the Humanities, edited by Gabriel Hankins, Anouk Lang, and Simon Appleford.

An edited collection that asks how the humanities are adapting to the rise of digital technologies, and digs into the ways postsecondary institutions are proving the importance of humanities training at the graduate level.

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12/13/2024

12/12/2024

Calling all animal lovers! 🐐🦃🐺🐕 Nonfiction editor John McMurtrie recommends some new books about creatures great and small. https://ow.ly/xFpQ50UprLc Princeton University Press Atria Books University of Minnesota Press Liveright Publishing University of Chicago Press

12/11/2024

"This book is an excellent example of an intersectional art-historical monograph, impressive for its incredibly productive dialogue between q***r and Indigenous studies. Because the history of photography needs more nuanced, critical languages for documentary work across lines of difference, this book provides something of a methodological toolbox." Great review of GOOD PICTURES ARE A STRONG WEAPON (Louise Siddons) in The Brooklyn Rail:

This book recontextualizes Laura Gilpin’s photographs of the Navajo (Diné) people. Weaving together new archival findings, skillful visual analyses, and cultural theory from q***r and Indigenous studies, Siddons recuperates Gilpin’s le***an identity and argues for its significance.