University of Minnesota Press
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Book publisher, est. 1925.
Today's nonfiction release reveals how policing is less about managing crime than about governing possibility. "At once an expansive study of the framework of policing and an indictment of its logics." —Simone Browne R. Joshua Scannell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lS9... @frannyrecounts.bsky.social
Today's fiction release brings to life 1920s St. Paul, a haven for bootleggers, bank robbers—and ordinary folks navigating a new social order. This "spellbinding tour de force" (William Kent Krueger) is based loosely on author Matt Goldman's family history. MN: Catch him on tour!
Hey everyone, I'm excited to share with you all this chapter from Antoine Volodine's forthcoming novel Living in Fire. It's titled "Aunt Yoanna" and it's my favorite. With intro by @brianevenson.bsky.social @electricliterature.com @uminnpress.bsky.social electricliterature.com/aunt-yoanna-...
My Aunt's Collection of Miniature Men Is Probably Not Harmless - Electric Literature
“Aunt Yoanna” from LIVING IN FIRE by Antoine Volodine, recommended by Brian Evenson
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University of Minnesota Press is offering 30% for the winner of the MSA Translation Prize, Marta Figlerowicz's translation of Maria Janion's Bad Child and Kristin Bluemel's Enchanted Wood, on the MSA Book Prize shortlist. More info can be found on their website @uminnpress.bsky.social
Collection: Modernism - University of Minnesota Press
All books in this collection are 30% off when you order using code MN96660. Offer expires December 1, 2026.
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Reframing bullying has been key in our scholarship & public policy work for over 15 yrs. These ideas anchor our new book "Queer Kids & Social Violence" @uminnpress.bsky.social. Book talk w @paisleycurrah.com and @ecpayne.bsky.social at @bgsqd.bsky.social Oct7th. Bullying is political.
See you tonight at Dominion Chalmers, Ottawa! @uminnpress.bsky.social @morsini.bsky.social @nataliekt.bsky.social @anneemcguire.bsky.social @remiyergeau.bsky.social @carleton.ca @carletonfass.bsky.social carleton.ca/cdash/event/...
Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin: Strategies for Collective Survival Book Launch and Discussion - Carleton Disability and Access Studies Hub (C-DASH)
Authors Kelly Fritsch and Anne McGuire argue that we live in a world broken by design: a web of systems that debilitate and destroy through racist and ableist infrastructural neglect, socioeconomic ab...
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Robin M. LeBlanc, Proprietors for a Democratic City: Space and Political Voice in Italy - University of Minnesota Press, November 2026 @uminnpress.bsky.social www.upress.umn.edu/978151792118...
Proprietors for a Democratic City
Lessons from Bologna on how ordinary people take charge of urban spaces and make their cities more democraticProprietors for a Democratic City examines how n...
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Also shortlisted for the MSA Book Prize: Kristin Bluemel's <Enchanted Wood: Engraving a Place for Women Artists in Rural Britain> @uminnpress.bsky.social www.upress.umn.edu/978151791477...
Enchanted Wood
How women wood engravers helped reshape the visual and literary landscape of modern Britain Amid the austerities of Depression-era publishing in Britain, urb...
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The winner of the 2026 MSA Translation Prize (for a translation published in 2024 or 2025) is Marta Figlerowicz, for her translation of Maria Janion’s <The Bad Child: A Maria Janion Reader> with @uminnpress.bsky.social
The Bad Child
Collected writings from a visionary thinker about the perilous edge between patriotism and fascism How do nationalism and patriotism shape our understand...
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I recently had the pleasure of talking about my book Brokers of Power from @uminnpress.bsky.social with Miranda Melcher on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast. Check it out at the link below! newbooksnetwork.com/brokers-of-p...
Conor Harrison, "Brokers of Power: The Financialization of the US Electricity System" (U Minnesota Press, 2026) - New Books Network
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“We’re seeing the systematic deconstruction of disability rights in the United States" —author Rebecca Monteleone (The Double Bind of Disability) quoted in Mother Jones.
Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 2w agoIs Meta using disabled people to promote its glasses?
Tonight! Elin Anna Labba is in town to talk THE HOME OF THE DROWNED at @amswedinstitute.bsky.social in Mpls, 7PM: asimn.org/events-calen...
🚀 Digital version is out! 🚀 BUT we do think this one 📕 is so beautiful thanks to the 💨 cover pic by Trevor Paglen @paglen.studio -> everyone should get the real thing. 📚 @zentralwerkstatt.org @uminnpress.bsky.social also Leo Impett & Johanna Drucker meson.press/books/vector...
Tamara Dean (Shelter and Storm) has been named the keynote speaker for the Iowa Environmental Council's upcoming conference 9/29 in Des Moines: iaenvironment.salsalabs.org/26conference... @tamaradean.bsky.social
Coverage of the forthcoming AMERICAN OCCUPATION in @mspmag.bsky.social : mspmag.com/arts-and-cul...
Dozens of Minnesota Writers Contribute to ICE-Resistance Anthology
American Occupation, Literary Hub’s anthology of letters written by Minnesota authors, poets, and journalists during Operation Metro Surge, releases in January.
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I'm re-reading a couple of chapters from this collection on Care Ethics in the Age of Precarity for my Intro to Med Hums class and it's just a banger of collection from top to bottom www.upress.umn.edu/978151791187...
Care Ethics in the Age of Precarity
How care can resist the stifling force of the neoliberal paradigm In a world brimming with tremendous wealth and resources, too many are suffering the oppres...
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Excited to kick off Elin Anna Labba's US tour this week! First stop is tonight in DC!
University of Minnesota Press@uminnpress.bsky.social · 2mo agoElin Anna Labba will be in the US this September with events at DC's House of Sweden, NYC's Scandinavia House, and Minneapolis's American Swedish Institute. We hope to see you! z.umn.edu/LabbaUS2026 @amswedinstitute.bsky.social
Spoke to NPR about why the "AI agents going rogue" narrative misses the actual threats AI is posing: environmental, military, social, etc. Also: why the "look how powerful the AI is" plays into the hands of the AI companies benefiting from presenting AI in that way. www.npr.org/2026/09/13/n...
Could AI kill us all? Professor weighs in on former Anthropic employee's claim
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks University of Southampton's Thomas Dekeyser about worries AI is becoming fatally out of control.
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🆕🎧▶️ On the pod, a Posthumanities series event: Giuseppe Longo, Adam Nocek, Jonathan Basile, and Cary Wolfe talk theoretical biology, deconstruction, language and interpretation, science and living systems, & much more. share.transistor.fm/s/392c9238 @jonothingeb.bsky.social
Biological existence and its theoretical complexities. | University of Minnesota Press
Evolutionary biologist Richard Lewontin argued that organisms do not adapt to their environments, but rather that organisms and environments co-evolve and construct one another. Two new books in the U...
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Join us for a Book Talk in conversation with Paisley Currah. The work of anti-bullying is not exclusive to educational contexts but is part of the broader address of social inequalities experienced by gender & sexual minority people. @paisleycurrah.com @uminnpress.bsky.social @ecpayne.bsky.social
Queer Kids and Social Violence with Elizabethe Payne and Paisley Currah
Join us for a reading and conversation with Elizabethe Payne, editor of the new book Queer Kids and Social Violence: The Limits of Bullying.
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Peatlands are rich ecosystems and critical carbon sinks—thanks to climate change, they are drying up. WATER, CARBON, TIME reviewed in @science.org: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Save the bogs, for peat’s sake
Peatlands are rich ecosystems and critical carbon sinks—thanks to climate change, they are drying up
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Here’s the Cover For American Occupation, a Powerful Document of Minnesota’s Resistance to ICE, via @literaryhub.bsky.social : lithub.com/heres-the-co...
Here’s the Cover For American Occupation, a Powerful Document of Minnesota’s Resistance to ICE
Two days after Alex Pretti was murdered by federal ICE agents in Minneapolis, on January 24, 2026, we published a “Letter From Minnesota” from the poet Dobby Gibson. As I wrote at the time of the f…
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Peatlands might only account for about 3 or 4 percent of the Earth’s surface, but they have a lot to say about time. buff.ly/jM8xsYl
What Peatlands Can Teach Us About Time
I am sitting in a frost pocket in West Virginia, looking at a Canada warbler. It is World Migratory Bird Day in spring, the second Saturday of May, and I have spent the past week in search of warbl…
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Tons of beautiful books every paddler should know! Including several of ours! via @startribune.com www.startribune.com/the-minnesot...
The Minnesota canoeing books that launched a thousand journeys
From Boundary Waters classics to harrowing expeditions and coffee-table favorites, these are the books every paddler should know.
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Thanks for including Jennifer de Mooy's Water, Carbon, Time!
Ben Railton@americanstudier.bsky.social · 3w agoHappy Labor Day weekend! There’s power in a union, & solidarity in my 292nd #ScholarSunday thread of public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, please share widely, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ +
Lovely Spine Magazine roundup of beautiful university press covers, including @elleryefoutch.bsky.social 's A PERFECTIONIST IMPULSE: spinemagazine.co/articles/uni...
SPINE-University Press Coverage, August 2026
Welcome to our University Press Coverage — known as the Uni-Press Round-Up on the right side of the Pond — a ongoing feature in which we highlight, with commentary, a selection of university and acade...
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‘Repair’ is always political. KellyFritsch and Anne McGuire explore disability, accessibility, AI, and what it means to build collective care in broken worlds.🎧 Listen to the latest episode now!
