Kicking off Women's History Month with a conversation about self-trained scientist and off-the-grid nature writer Helen Hoover, who made a place for herself in the world of her time. 🎧: share.transistor.fm/s/3abbd0a7

The Fledgling Dove, engraved 1951, by #JoanHassall, OBE (British, 1906-1988) who was born #otd, Mar 3. Hassall is 1 of 4 artists featured in Enchanted Wood: Engraving a Place for Women Artists in Rural Britain, by Kristen Bluemel, www.upress.umn.edu/978151791477... ( @uminnpress.bsky.social, 2026)

Friends! Would you or somebody you know want to review our @uminnpress.bsky.social edited collection Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination for @asapartsnow.bsky.social? If so, please head on the journal's site (asapjournal.com/submit/) and pitch your review! Also, please repost! Thank you!

New releases: -Michel Serres's Hermes III: Translation -The Impossible Reversal by @pdmcdonald.bsky.social : a cultural history of play from Fluxus to SimCity -Border Mediascapes by Francesco Zucconi: on cinema and border zones -Out of the Blue: translated Icelandic fiction, now in PB

The Blue House I Loved by Kao Kalia Yang, illus Jen Shin is an open-house tour that lovingly shows how memories leave a lasting mark, "inviting us toward the past, to ourselves and each other, again." Here's my ⭐Booklist #bookreview: tinyurl.com/5n97va5x #KidLit @uminnpress.bsky.social 📚👍

Kristin Bluemel's book "Enchanted Wood: Engraving a Place for Women Artists in Rural Britain" focuses on artists Gwen Raverat, Agnes Miller Parker, Clare Leighton, and Joan Hassall. And it is available in paperback! www.upress.umn.edu/978151791477...

New Nietzsche #books from Edgar Landgraf (@uminnpress.bsky.social) and @dharlanwilson.bsky.social (@rdspress.bsky.social)! 💙📚 #booksky roychristopher.substack.com/p/reaching-n...

We have been delighted with a box of treats from our resident recipe-tester🍪 Filled with perfect bake sale recipes, check out The Ultimate Minnesota Cookie Book for your fundraising needs! mngbookshop.co.uk/978151791817... @uminnpress.bsky.social @ricknelsonminn.bsky.social @leesdean.bsky.social

I’m reading, signing and selling books, and doing a kid’s activity around my children’s PB book tonight at 6 pm, at the Home and Garden Show at the convention center! Tix are cheap, but use the promo code to get half price: BABYCAKES @uminnpress.bsky.social

"The unspoken part of divisive rhetoric and propagandized fear is how much work the presence of barbarians—real and imagined—does to solidify the status quo." Zeke Caligiuri in @literaryhub.bsky.social : lithub.com/letter-from-...

On April 22, my university will host a book launch event for my new monograph FAST & FURIOUS FRANCHISING, with presentations by Bruce Mutsvairo, @aways.bsky.social and @joostvervoort.bsky.social. It's free and open to the public, followed by free drinks! Register here: www.uu.nl/en/events/bo...

🎧 At age 60, Erica Rand took up pairs figure skating, and directly encountered the interconnected binarisms shaping athletic participation. Her story, and a call to transform gender norms in sport, on the Press podcast with Travers and Mary Louise Adams. share.transistor.fm/s/5ce9d8f8

Announcing a new series, Cohabitations, for studies of past, present, and future habitats, featuring editors Namita Vijay Dharia, Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, Peg Rawes, Ikem Stanley Okoye, and Daniel A. Barber. www.upress.umn.edu/announcing-a...

Hello, College Art in Chicago! Visit our booth or browse the sale online: www.upress.umn.edu/caa/ #CAA114 #CAA

“Film doesn’t really care about national borders,” Kurosawa writes. “It plays an important role by enabling people to understand each other, actually.” Beautiful translated nonfiction roundup in Kirkus: www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-fea...

Wer möchte, kann unser Hamburger Gespräch über Günther Anders als Denker der Gegenwart, 70 Jahre »Antiquiertheit« und die erste englische Gesamtübersetzung (@uminnpress.bsky.social) jetzt nachhören und -sehen 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CdN... 🙏 an @chrhentschel.bsky.social und Martin Kollmann!

"Deep engagement with place, identity, and transformation invites readers to reconsider what counts as travel—and whose voices deserve to be heard." lithub.com/whose-journe...

The @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast devoted a full episode to my new book FAST AND FURIOUS FRANCHISING, which will be published by @uminnpress.bsky.social very soon now! newbooksnetwork.com/fast-and-fur...

Nice LONG TAKE review in @ShelfAwareness: "an indispensable companion to the director's autobiography and a singular look at his perspectives on film." www.shelf-awareness.com/sar3-issue.h...

Two new journal issues: -Future Anterior 22.1-2: The Potential of Provenance. Editor Jorge Otero-Pailos; guest editors Mari Lending, Alena Beth Rieger, Simon Mitchell. -Cultural Critique 130. Editors Cesare Casarino, Frieda Ekotto, Maggie Hennefeld, John Mowitt, Simona Sawhney. (links in comments)

Via @sunyungshin.bsky.social! this looks interesting and important: www.upress.umn.edu/978151790480...

A fight to the finish today -- so proud of you, Jessie Diggins! Read about her journey from Stillwater, MN, to international sports history: www.upress.umn.edu/978151790820...

Shouting out a very timely, short, and readable little book, Erica Rand's Skating Away from the Binary—a call to transform gender norms in sport. Available in print; free to read online: www.upress.umn.edu/978151792055...

Fantastic to see @uminnpress.bsky.social putting this essential collection of writings back in print, by Lulu herself. www.upress.umn.edu/978081663731...

Beautiful film studies releases: -Long Take, memoir of director Akira Kurosawa, translated @annekmck.bsky.social -Assembly Lines: Montage in Postwar French Film / Ivan Cerecina -Black Light: Revealing the Hidden History of Photography and Cinema / Christophe Wall-Romana -Louise Brooks autobiography

🎧 "We talk about resistance or resilience; what does that actually look like?" Jessica Lopez Lyman, author of Place-Keepers, with Kristie Soares and Karmen Chávez on the Press podcast. share.transistor.fm/s/97747e66

"Kao Kalia Yang once again encourages us to engage with one another in the communal—and vital—practice of remembering. A beautiful book." —Bao Phi. THE BLUE HOUSE I LOVED is out today! Happy to share that tonight's launch will be livestreamed at 6pm Central: sppl.bibliocommons.com/events/695d5...

Our Books for Understanding ICE in Minnesota collection featured on @fox9mn.bsky.social over the weekend: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0biW...

I just got my author's copy of The Impossible Reversal from @uminnpress.bsky.social and it looks absolutely gorgeous! My deep thanks go out to Jason Weidemann and the rest of the editorial team who shepherded the manuscript into being! You can pre-order it now from the press or bookshop.org

"January here was terrible. Now it is February, and nothing has changed. I don’t know when anything will change. I write this and it becomes a wail." @lhertzel.bsky.social in @lithub.com.web.brid.gy lithub.com/letter-from-...

I wrote a little thing about Deleuze's On Painting. Didn't know it had been translated. limitedinc.blogspot.com/2026/02/dele...

And while I'm here: I love this snappy little book by Golumbia from 2016. You can read it in like 2 hours! www.upress.umn.edu/978151790180...

Oh hey. A book I wrote and translated came out today! If you're inclined to buy, please consider buying from your local indie bookseller, from Bookshop.org, or the publisher, U of Minnesota Press, so they can continue their good work, in MPLS and at large... www.upress.umn.edu/978151790329...

Coming this May, a community-centered handbook for transformative social change that explores Dr. Brittany Lewis's Equity in Action model through case studies. BUILDING A NEW TABLE is available for pre-order wherever books are sold.

"It’s not about bravery, it’s about making sure to do the right thing, at the right time, for the other human—because we too are human." Marcie Rendon in @lithub.com.web.brid.gy : lithub.com/letter-from-...

Phil’s book came in the mail today! Looks excellent and also so relevant for students of religion Late Theory: Fredric Jameson, or the Persistence of Reading

Books for Understanding ICE in Minnesota: a curated list of titles to aid in understanding the profound and disturbing events that have so deeply affected our communities. www.upress.umn.edu/books-for-un...

"We are still here, and I believe we will get through this moment." Carolyn Holbrook in @lithub.com.web.brid.gy : lithub.com/letter-from-...

"The resistance in our city comes out of how our children have come of age within a diversity that so many fear and we here celebrate." David Mura in @lithub.com.web.brid.gy : lithub.com/letter-from-...

Thrilled that my children’s picture book about a little girl struggling to understand her mom’s stillbirth, pubs this May! ❤️‍🩹🤩 It’s called WHERE IS NY SISTER? and is a long time coming.

Available for pre-order from @uminnpress.bsky.social: Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin: Strategies for Collective Survival, co-authored with @anneemcguire.bsky.social www.upress.umn.edu/978151791973...

Spring children's preview in @publisherswkly.bsky.social includes new books from @kaokaliayang.bsky.social @shannongibney.bsky.social and Mary Casanova: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Wrapping up a review (for Af Am Review) of this @uminnpress.bsky.social book and I refuse to wait: recommending now Bartell’s uncannily relevant *On the Eve*, about how MLK, the Panthers, the Boggses, LRBW & comrades discussed tech unemployment, UBI, labor & more www.upress.umn.edu/978151791393...

Journalists #DonLemon, #GeorgiaFort arrested last night for covering protest against ICE earlier this month. Jessica Lopez Lyman @uminnpress.bsky.social lays down her theory on why MN has become a federal target w/ @sugi.bsky.social & Whitney Terrell. lithub.com/jessica-lope... #lithubpod #writers

The journal @lithub.com.web.brid.gy has been running Letters from Minnesotans this week, essays by some of our most respected writers. Today's from Kao Kalia Yang, a Hmong woman and a brilliant and honored writer, might break you. But all of them are powerful. lithub.com/letter-from-...

🆕 🎧 The perilous edge between patriotism and fascism: On the work of Maria Janion, with Marta Figlerowicz and @noahfeldman.bsky.social share.transistor.fm/s/75515cf3

📗 R. Christian Phillips reviews "Cinema is the Strongest Weapon: Race-Making and Resistance in Fascist Italy" by Lorenzo Fabbri (@uminnpress.bsky.social) in Journal of Film and Video Vol. 77, No. 4, on @projectmuse.bsky.social: muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/artic...

NEW EPISODE: Performance artist and Xicana feminist scholar Jessica Lopez Lyman @uminnpress.bsky.social joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social to talk about Minnesota’s history with state violence and local resistance. @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/jessica-lope...

This year's James Beard Awards semifinalists are in, and we're happy to see contributors to KITCHENS OF HOPE Gustavo Romero and Kate Romero (Oro by Nixta) and Yia Vang (Vinai) included. Congrats! www.startribune.com/minnesota-ch...