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🎧 Fantastic new podcast episode: Rebecca Monteleone and @ashleyshoo.bsky.social in conversation about medical technologies, bodily authority, and how users navigate complicated constraints.
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Two human headshots up top; below, book cover of The Double Bind of Disability: How Medical Technology Shapes Bodily Authority by Rebecca Monteleone. (X-ray of hand from which a piece is torn to reveal syringe, ampoule, IV drip, EKG, and BP meter where finger bones should be. Title in white.) At right, text: Exposing the ableism underlying medical innovation. Listen: University of Minnesota Press podcast. At bottom, text: A conversation between Becca Monteleone and Ashley Shew.
November 19, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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More beautiful releases today! (2/2)

-Mixed-Blood Histories: Race, Law, and Dakota Indians in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest / Jameson R. Sweet
-The Prettiest Woman: Nostalgia for Late Industrial Capitalism / Grant Farred
-Now in PB: Mysterious Tales of Old St. Paul / Larry Millett
Book cover of Mixed-Blood Histories: Race, Law, and Dakota Indians in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest by Jameson R. Sweet. Background of stained brown textured paper. Title in brown at top, subtitle in white in middle, author name in maroon below. Book cover of The Prettiest Woman: Nostalgia for Late Industrial Capitalism by Grant Farred. Brown background with title, subtitle, author in fore and Forerunners series elements in detail throughout, in white. Book cover of Mysterious Tales of Old St. Paul: Three Cases Featuring Shadwell Rafferty by Larry Millett. Rear view of man in top hat and frock coat against painterly image of city street in yellow, brown, and green. Title in black, author in red.
November 18, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Many new releases today! (1/2)

-The Double Bind of Disability / @beccamonteleone.bsky.social
-Place-Keepers / Jessica Lopez Lyman, on Latina/x women artists in the Twin Cities
-States of Defeat / @fritamoreno.bsky.social
-The Eurabia Myth / Mehammed Amadeus Mack
​Book cover of The Double Bind of Disability: How Medical Technology Shapes Bodily Authority by Rebecca Monteleone. X-ray of hand from which a piece is torn to reveal syringe, ampoule, IV drip, EKG, and BP meter where finger bones should be. Title in white. Book cover of Place-Keepers: Latina/x Art, Performance, and Organizing in the Twin Cities, by Jessica Lopez Lyman. Color graphic blending musical bars behind two people smiling and gesturing toward the Taco Taxi restaurant’s marquee over a spray-painted facade. Book cover of States of Defeat: US Imaginaries of Revolutionary Central America by Eric A. Vázquex. Title in capital letters in white and yellow arranged as a stacked set of descending stairs against a green background. Book cover of The Eurabia Myth: Countercolonization and Masculine Fragility in France by Mehammed Amadeus Mack. Green Islamic geometric pattern in background with the shape of France cut out from it at center. Title appears in black and green within the cutout.
November 18, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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🎧 Fantastic new conversation on our podcast! Featuring Danny Snelson, Vicki Bennett (People Like Us) / @vickiwfmu.bsky.social , Craig Dworkin, and Luca Messarra on the digitized afterlives of cultural objects. share.transistor.fm/s/d0afdbc0
​In fore at left, book cover for The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats by Daniel Scott Snelson (Colliding clumps of digital static in shades of pink and green form the background. Title in black at top, subtitle repeated vertically on the left). Up top, headshots of four humans: Daniel Scott Snelson, Vicki Bennett, Craig Dworkin, and Luca Messarra. At bottom, headphones graphic with sans-serif all-caps: Listen: University of Minnesota Press podcast. At right, quote: "I'm really interested in this double-edged sword of access to digital materials . . . which feels different in 2025." —Danny Snelson ​In fore at left, book cover for The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats by Daniel Scott Snelson (Colliding clumps of digital static in shades of pink and green form the background. Title in black at top, subtitle repeated vertically on the left). Up top, headshots of four humans: Daniel Scott Snelson, Vicki Bennett, Craig Dworkin, and Luca Messarra. At bottom, headphones graphic with sans-serif all-caps: Listen: University of Minnesota Press podcast. At right, quote: "A lot of the friction that can happen in chains of information . . . it's not really about the tools being used, it's about our agency." —Vicki Bennett ​In fore at left, book cover for The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats by Daniel Scott Snelson (Colliding clumps of digital static in shades of pink and green form the background. Title in black at top, subtitle repeated vertically on the left). Up top, headshots of four humans: Daniel Scott Snelson, Vicki Bennett, Craig Dworkin, and Luca Messarra. At bottom, headphones graphic with sans-serif all-caps: Listen: University of Minnesota Press podcast. At right, quote: "I never would have dreamed of 'language not equal.' So the absence of metadata is one of the things I'm most proud of on (Eclipse)." —Craig Dworkin ​In fore at left, book cover for The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats by Daniel Scott Snelson (Colliding clumps of digital static in shades of pink and green form the background. Title in black at top, subtitle repeated vertically on the left). Up top, headshots of four humans: Daniel Scott Snelson, Vicki Bennett, Craig Dworkin, and Luca Messarra. At bottom, headphones graphic with sans-serif all-caps: Listen: University of Minnesota Press podcast. At right, quote: "(This book) excavates that tradition of sharing that later generations weren't necessarily exposed to." —Luca Messarra
November 13, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Kick your personalized holiday shopping up a notch, or fill your own shelves with Minnesota treasures: This week's e-newsletter spotlights our Read Minnesota book sale!
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Headline: Holiday list picks. Three rows of four book covers each under the headers "for the foodie," "for the film, music, pop-culture buff," "for the history buff." Fading pink gradient background and diamond elements at top right. Headline: Holiday list picks. Three rows of four book covers each under the headers "for the mystery and adventure reader," "for the memoir fan," "for the picture-book reader." Fading pink gradient background and diamond elements at top right.
November 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Excellent new titles releasing today:
-Mysterious Tales of Old Minneapolis, fiction by Larry Millett
-Everything Is Permitted: On Assassin's Creed by @ckunzelman.bsky.social
-By Their Work: Indigenous Women's Digital Media in North America, edited by Joanna Hearne and @karrmencrey.bsky.social
​Book cover for Mysterious Tales of Old Minneapolis by Larry Millett. Antique perspective map of river city upon which is a large bloodstain in which the title and author appear. Book cover for By Their Work: Indigenous Women's Digital Media in North America, coedited by Joanna Hearne and Karrmen Crey. Stop-motion figure of a person with long dark hair, wearing a sleeved leather wrap and pants; they carry a bowl among trees with violet foliage. Book cover for Everything Is Permitted: On Assassin's Creed by Cameron Kunzelman. Dark gray background with image of a loose-woven white fabric fluttering below the title block, which mimics the style of the Assassin’s Creed video game.
November 11, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Eye-opening books on the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald on November 10, 1975, and other shipwreck stories of life and loss. Select titles now 30% off with code MN94100.
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Left to right: Book cover for Along Lake Michigan: Shipwreck Stories of Life and Loss by Michael Schumacher (Painting in muted blues of a steamship cruising under the banner “Eastland.” The image is pitched sharply downward, suggesting peril.); book cover for Mighty Fitz: The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Michael Schumacher (watercolor rendering of large ship on stormy grey seas. Coral-colored strip across the vertical middle, with title in white all-caps, and subtitle and author at bottom.); and at right, text against black background: BOOK SALE: On the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald and other shipwreck stories of life and loss. University of Minnesota Press logo at bottom right.
November 10, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Ujju Aggarwal's UNSETTLING CHOICE has won a Critics' Choice Award from the American Educational Studies Association! @aesatalk.bsky.social

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At left, book cover for Unsettling Choice: Race, Rights, and the Partitioning of Public Education by Ujju Aggarwal (Title in a rounded translucent box over abstract art of layered scalloped patterns in vermilion, gold, and brown.) with University of Minnesota Press logo in lower left corner. At right, text: Winner of an American Educational Studies Association Critics’ Choice Award. Below: Two images in circular frames, one the AESA logo, and to its right, black-and-white image of author Ujju Aggarwal.
November 5, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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🎧 New podcast episode featuring Willi Lempert and Karrmen Crey on Indigenous filmmaking and futures. share.transistor.fm/s/952dd9d3
At top left, two human headshots. Below, book cover for Dreaming Down the Track: Awakenings in Aboriginal Cinema by William Lempert. (Bearded man sits among dried grasses before a roofless ruin, the scene captured by a movie camera in the foreground. Title vertical on left.) Below, headphones graphic with text: Listen: University of Minnesota Press podcast. At right, quote in italic serif font: "I'm thinking about films in terms of their social lives throughout the span of the process (and) this idea of a broader visibility paradox around the flourishing sphere of Indigenous Australian media." —Willi Lempert.
November 5, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Two exciting lit releases today:

-An Eye for an I: Growing Up with Blindness, Bigotry, and Family Mental Illness, memoir by James Francisco Bonilla

-Now in paperback: A Song over Miskwaa Rapids: A Novel by Linda LeGarde Grover
Book cover for An Eye for an I: Growing Up with Blindness, Bigotry, and Family Mental Illness by James Francisco Bonilla. Title text fades left to right from white to transparent. At center a drawn eye encloses a circular photo—its iris—of a mother and son at the beach. Paperback book cover for A Song over Miskwaa Rapids: A Novel by Linda LeGarde Grover. Background in green. Red sumac leaves visible through cutout of flying bird. Text all in san serif white.
November 4, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Four brand-new scholarly books out today:
-Nothing Wanting / KJ Cerankowski
-First Light / Iokepa Casumbal-Salazar
-Indigenous Inhumanities / Mark Minch-de Leon
-Spectropolis / Joshua Comaroff
Book cover for Nothing Wanting: Asexuality and the Matter of Absence by KJ Cerankowski. Main title rotated to appear as column over a cyan bird's-eye view of water glasses casting shadows. One glass is cut away, but its shadow remains. Book cover for First Light: Kanaka 'Oiwi Resistance to Settler Science at Mauna a Wakea by Iokepa Casumbal-Salazar. White title at center against an image taken above cloud level of the sun just clearing the horizon on a clear day. Book cover for Indigenous Inhumanities: California Indian Studies after the Apocalypse by Mark Minch-de Leon. Painting in red, black, and cream of eyes and teeth in nonfacial arrangement. Title in large white letters stacked on left. Subtitle in cut-out below. Book cover for Spectropolis: The E​nchantment of Capital in Singapore by Joshua Comaroff. Colors from a cardboard slot machine and apartment building stretch up toward the title in black above. Hell bank notes, iPhone, and toy car in front.
November 4, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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👻🎃📚 Final stretch! 30% off books in our Ghosts and Monsters collection with code MN93980. www.upress.umn.edu/ghosts-and-m...
Amalgamation of book cover tiles with text: Ghosts and Monsters Sale.
October 31, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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New journal issue: Norwegian-American Studies 43 is now live @projectmuse.bsky.social

Editor: Anna Peterson

Free article: J. R. Christianson, "Seven Generations: A Century of Norwegian-American History" muse.jhu.edu/pub/23/artic...
Cover for Norwegian-American Studies 43 with the journal's title shown prominently in white with the year "2025." Behind the text is a replica of the ship Restauration; the photograph is washed in blue and red.
October 31, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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New journal issue: Buildings & Landscapes 32.2, now live on @projectmuse.bsky.social
Editors: Margaret Grubiak and William Moore
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Cover for Buildings & Landscapes 32.2 with the journal's title arranged vertically and horizontally in a plus shape. Qilou shophouses in Chikan, Guangdong Province, China are shown underneath.
October 31, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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🎧 New on our podcast: Joyce Cheng and Jonathan Eburne launch the Surrealisms series, talking surrealism's formative Paris years and its ethnographic dimension. share.transistor.fm/s/383eeead
At top, headphones graphic and two human faces. At left, main image is book cover for The Persistence of Masks: Surrealism and the Ethnography of the Subject by Joyce Suechun Cheng. At right, quote: "In a way, what I'm saying is the self is overrated. Maybe the mass is a more important paradigm that we need to be able to recuperate." —Joyce Suechun Cheng At top, headphones graphic and two human faces. At left, main image is book cover for The Persistence of Masks: Surrealism and the Ethnography of the Subject by Joyce Suechun Cheng. At right, quote: "You're saying something very important today in an era when many disciplines are being shut down." —Jonathan Eburne
October 28, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Today's important new releases:

-Queer Kids and Social Violence / @ecpayne.bsky.social and Melissa J. Smith, editors / @queeringedu.bsky.social

-On the Eve of the Cybercultural Revolution / Brian Bartell
Book cover for Queer Kids and Social Violence: The Limits of Bullying, edited by Elizabethe Payne and Melissa J. Smith. Doors closing off a school hallway, beyond which a student and row of lockers can be seen in soft focus. All text in white box at lower half. Book cover for On the Eve of the Cybercultural Revolution: Black Power and Capitalism in the 1960s by Brian Bartell. Gray background with title, subtitle, and author appearing in bold white, black, and red type, respectively.
October 28, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Two new journal issues now on @projectmuse.bsky.social:

-Wicazo Sa Review 40.1&2, 40th Anniversary Issue
Editor: Lloyd Lee
OA article: muse.jhu.edu/pub/23/artic...

-NAIS 12.2
Editors: Gina Starblanket and Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark
OA article: muse.jhu.edu/pub/23/artic...
Wicazo Sa Review 40.1&2 cover featuring a large, stylized photo of feathers and the title "40th Anniversary Commemorative Issue." The cover is washed a gradient of blue, green, orange, and dark red. cover of NAIS: The Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association. vol. 12.2—2025. Bright, light blue with "NAIS" in dark purple in large letters that cover the quadrants; single color image in the middle of clothing on a headless mannequin with glass windows and city scape in the background.
October 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Overjoyed to see Jonathan Cott's LET ME TAKE YOU DOWN: Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields Forever take a slot in ​AIGA's 50 Books | 50 Covers awards!
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Physical copy of Let Me Take You Down: Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields Forever by Jonathan Cott stands on top of two of the same books, stacked. Cover image: Animation of a field of strawberries against light pink sky and illustration of members of The Beatles standing knee-deep in the strawberries. Title, subtitle, and author up top.
October 21, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Three beautiful books out today!
-Leaf Town Forever / @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social @bethrooney.bsky.social, illustrated by Betsy Bowen
-Mainstreaming Palestine / @umayyah.bsky.social
-Now in paperback: The Complete and Original Norwegian Folktales of Asbjørnsen and Moe, translated by Tiina Nunnally
Book cover of Leaf Town Forever by Kathleen Rooney, Beth Rooney, and Betsy Bowen. Painting of eight children playing among autumn leaf bowers at top; at bottom, three children closer up also playing with leaves. Title in middle. Book cover of Mainstreaming Palestine: Cinematic Activism and Solidarity Politics in the United States by Umayyah Cable. Silhouette of Palestine blended behind red and green filters and dust specks. Title above, subtitle below in large type. Author name between. ​Book cover of The Complete and Original Norwegian Folktales of Asbjørnsen and Moe, translated by Tiina Nunnally. Painting of an alpine landscape. A person with a walking stick and backpack is seen from behind looking toward a distant sunlit mountaintop.
October 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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📚 Our holiday book sale is a go!📚

🕰️ history
⚡️ fiction
🖊️ memoir
🍪 cookbooks
🍃 whimsical children's books
☕️ coffee table books
🌿 natural history
🎼 music, mystery, and more!

30% off with code MN94100.
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Pink gradient background, small diamond elements, text in fore: Read Minnesota. holiday gift guide. Book cover of The Scenic Route: Building Minnesota's North Shore by Arnold R. Alanen. Title in vintage yellow postcard font within three twentieth-century photos of overlooks, tourists, and cabins, each with a view of Lake Superior. Book cover of Kitchens of Hope: Immigrants Share Stories of Resilience and Recipes from Home by Linda S. Svitak and Christin Jaye Eaton, with Lee Svitak Dean, photography by Tom Wallace. Plated spices, peppers, and peppercorns shown beside geometric shapes and woven textiles. Title in lower left against a blue background. Book cover of Leaf Town Forever by Kathleen Rooney and Beth Rooney, illustrated by Betsy Bowen. Painting of eight children playing among autumn leaf bowers at top; at bottom, three children closer up also playing with leaves. Title in middle.
October 8, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Out today: A fascinating interpretation of Chinatown through the lens of petromodernity by Michael Rubenstein. Available in paperback or in an OA electronic edition on Manifold.

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Book cover of Pipeline Noir: Seeing Oil through Chinatown by Michael Rubenstein. Beige background with title in white font in fore and Forerunners series elements in tiny detail throughout.
October 7, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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New books galore! Out today:
-The Persistence of Masks, the inaugural volume in our Surrealisms series
-The House on Rondo, fiction by Debra J Stone
-Sugar Bush Babies, memoir by Janis A. Fairbanks
-The Inner Harbour, new Volodine translation by Gina M. Stamm
Book cover of The Persistence of Masks: Surrealism and the Ethnogarphy of the Subject by Joyce Suechun Cheng. Beige background with a cowrie shell, soapstone pipe, and earthenware bowl arranged to suggest a face. Title text is orange red, the rest black. Book cover of The House on Rondo by Debra J Stone. Mixed-media collage and painted view of persons on street in front of gabled house. Title in bold yellow letters above, author in bold white below. Book cover of Sugar Bush Babies: Stories of My Ojibwe Grandmother by Janis A. Fairbanks. Landscape photo with rosy clouds above river and rushes. Snapshot of young woman at bottom, overlaid with snapshot of family of seven. Book cover of The Inner Harbour: A Post-Exotic Novel by Antoine Volodine, translated by Gina Stamm. View of tall buildings and harbor. In sky above the eye and hair of a person. Title in two beige strips in middle. Author in large cursive font below.
October 7, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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October has dawned—and so has our spooky sale. Ghosts and monsters, Mothra and Godzilla, horror theory and horror film, the supernatural and the speculative: 30% off our collection with code MN93980.
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Tiles with select book titles cropped surround bright-colored text against black background: Ghosts and Monsters Sale.
October 1, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Out today: Drawing on nearly a decade of fieldwork, a sensitive, timely examination of how colonial power infiltrates family dynamics, enforces gendered mobility restrictions, shapes local economies. Checkpoint 300 by @casesofyou.bsky.social

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​Book cover of Checkpoint 300: Colonial Space in Palestine by Mark Griffiths. Blocked title with black and red lettering on a black-and-white image of an institutional hallway divided by a metal gate and enclosed turnstile.
September 23, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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A new issue of the International Journal of Surrealism is out via @projectmuse.bsky.social
-Special issue: Surrealism and the Black World
-Guest Editors: Tiffany E. Barber and Carine Harmand
-Journal Editors: Katharine Conley and Alyce Mahon
-OA article: muse.jhu.edu/pub/23/artic...
Cover for International Journal of Surrealism 2.2 with the journal's title and stylized brown graphics of eyes. It features a surrealist print of a sitting figure.
September 18, 2025 at 6:03 PM