New podcast day!! Here is ep. 385A: Dr. Jeffrey Angles discusses his translation of THE LUMINOUS FAIRIES AND MOTHRA, a sequel to GODZILLA that launched one of the most beloved monsters in the “kaijuverse.” @uminnpress.bsky.social turnthepage.blubrry.net/2026/01/15/t...

“Drawing upon James and Grace Lee Boggs’s expanded notion of the cybercultural era, Brian Bartell demonstrates how a range of artists, writers, and activists from the 1960s prefigured the wider discourse around automation and made it a central concern of their politics.”

for this week's Salon column, I wrote about a handful of new-ish music books: Mary Lucia's memoir, Jon Bernstein's astonishing Justin Townes Earle bio, Amy Rigby's most recent memoir & Cameron Crowe's "The Uncool" www.salon.com/2026/01/13/t...

🆕🎧: New on our podcast, anti-mafia organizing and solidarity movements in Italy. With Christina Jerne, Deborah Puccio-Den, and Trine Korsby. share.transistor.fm/s/9dc8cf86

Officially out today! The original story that hatched Mothra, available in English for the first time. www.upress.umn.edu/978151792001...

The translation of "The Luminous Fairies and Mothra" is officially out via @uminnpress.bsky.social! As you snag your copies of the book, re-visit the interview I did with Dr. Jeffrey Angles on Growing Up With Godzilla last year! We take a deep dive into the book! www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhZZ...

My forthcoming book, DIVEST, is available for preorder. www.upress.umn.edu/978151792148... Get 30% off using the discount code below. That’s less than a cup of coffee in some places! @uminnpress.bsky.social

If you were at MLA, you could've bought a copy of Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination, seen at bottom right (thanks for the pic @kristinbluemel.bsky.social!) If you weren't or didn't, you can still get a 30% discount buying directly from @uminnpress.bsky.social using code MN94920!

From reissued classics, theory and art criticism to poetry, fiction, biography and even a sort of memetic fiction born out of a niche internet subculture, here are The London Magazine’s Best Books of 2025. thelondonmagazine.org/the-best-boo...

I’m tickled pink. @uminnpress.bsky.social featured my book Enchanted Wood on their banner for MLA 2026. We all need some ideas about survival through beauty and books to get us through this brutal winter.

Book spotted in the wild #MLA2026 @uminnpress.bsky.social to purchase: www.upress.umn.edu/978151791990... use this code MN94920 for 30% off.

Hello, #MLA26! Find us in the exhibit hall or browse our sale and exciting new books online. www.upress.umn.edu/mla/

"Cultural AI is called out in the subtitle not as a plea to attend to AI’s better half but because culture has been detached from cognition for too long." New in review, Matthew Kirschenbaum on Leif Weatherby's Language Machines: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/matthew_kirs...

Good morning, MLA! Stop by the Minnesota Press @uminnpress.bsky.social booth today to check out new books and sign up for our newsletter to get a free book #MLA26 Get 30% off at z.umn.edu/mla26!

I pre-ordered this book "Techno-Negative: A Long History of Refusing the Machine" and am looking forward to it. I don't know the author's work but I am very interested in the topic. Seems very timely. www.upress.umn.edu/978151791773...

Finally, here it is! (Many thanks to @uminnpress.bsky.social.)

This National Hobby Month, whisk up something new! 🧁Our baking books are ideal for everyone - from curious beginners to seasoned bakers. 📚Find out more: tinyurl.com/yfehauph @dukepress.bsky.social @uncpress.bsky.social @illinoispress.bsky.social @uminnpress.bsky.social @utexaspress.bsky.social

The Horror Theory Reader is out, from @uminnpress.bsky.social, and the contents look spectacularly *cough* well-chosen. A very judicious, wide-ranging anthology. www.upress.umn.edu/978151791782...

Today's new releases: -Thinking Further (Vilém Flusser) -The Horror Theory Reader (Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, ed.) -Enchanted Wood (Kristin Bluemel) -Piano Decompositions (Heidi Hart and Beate Schirrmacher) -Forensic Mental Health Assessment With the MMPI-3 (z.umn.edu/az36)

Proud to have worked with you, Mike. RIP. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

"We might not win in the end, but even in the attempt to resist, we will salvage some of our humanity." @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social 's TECHNO-NEGATIVE is a @lithub.com.web.brid.gy anticipated book of '26! lithub.com/lit-hubs-mos...

If "The Horror Theory Reader" is half as influential as its 2020 "Monster" version, this is a new textbook to snap up. @cypheractive.bsky.social & pals present chapters on why we watch and read horror, and what horror means to us. New from @uminnpress.bsky.social www.upress.umn.edu/978151791782...

Twin Cities lit folks: there is a rare opening to join the wonderful humans of @uminnpress.bsky.social in our marketing dept (mostly remote). It's a really good gig! www.upress.umn.edu/job-openings...

10 moments of arts-scene awe @minnpost.bsky.social : "With poignant character development, expert pacing and a masterful sense of place, “A Lesser Light” gave me a sense of awe for the great Lake Superior." www.minnpost.com/artscape/202...

I picked a hell of a time to start reading a book about white supremacist’s love of speculative fiction

What am I up to this new year? Lots. For one, I plan to do more events centered on my recent book from @uminnpress.bsky.social. #geosky #booksky Anyone who has ideas for talks at bookstores, campuses, or w/ groups send me a DM. I’ll announce events as they come together. So why am I doing this...

"TOUCH GRASS has never been more clearly demonstrated than in this new picture book. I urge readers to give it your time and attention..." Thanks to Unpacking the Power of Picture Books for reviewing LEAF TOWN FOREVER @uminnpress.bsky.social! unpackingpicturebookpower.blogspot.com/2026/01/new-...

Shouting out four beautiful wee-end-of-2025 releases: -Günther Anders's The Obsolescence of the Human (with @morbuscriticus.bsky.social) -Colin Williamson's Drawn to Nature -Olga Goriunova's Ideal Subjects -Anna Terwiel's Prison Abolition for Realists @amc-etc.bsky.social

Slice of SciFi 1157: #Mothra Professor Jeffrey Angles new book, The Luminous Fairies and Mothra, is the first ever English translation of the original novella bringing the mystical Mothra into existence. Available January 13 from @uminnpress.bsky.social www.sliceofscifi.com/2025/12/20/s...

In her memoir My Seven Mothers, Pernille Ipsen recounts growing up in a feminist camp—and chronicles the spirit, struggle, and determination of the Redstockings as they tried to build “a true alternative to the male society.” www.jezebel.com/how-womens-l...

"Jessica Lopez Lyman’s Place-Keepers: Latina/x Art, Performance, and Organizing in the Twin Cities offers an important snapshot of Latinx art and community in Minneapolis and St. Paul, two cities whose Latinx communities have been overlooked." www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

20 Theater Books for Your Winter 2026 Reading List

@uminnpress.bsky.social has the blurbs for The Impossible Reversal on their site ( www.upress.umn.edu/978151791622... ). I'm honored to have the amazing and generous Amy Ogata and Aaron Trammell as readers!

THE INNER HARBOUR by Antoine Volodine, tr. Gina M. Stamm (@uminnpress.bsky.social). Reviewed by @taniamalik.bsky.social. necessaryfiction.com/reviews/the-...

Scholar Umayyah Cable’s “Mainstreaming Palestine: iCinematic Activism and Solidarity Politics in the United States” (@uminnpress.bsky.social) traces decades of cinematic resistance, showing how Palestinians have fought erasure on screen.

Physical copies of our Critical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities book (newest volume in Debates in DH series) arrived today just in time for the holidays! www.upress.umn.edu/978151791608... @uminnpress.bsky.social

Never not taking photos of @uminnpress.bsky.social books in the wild. (In this case at Wallace Books in Portland.)

We’re back and we’re here to review the newly translated novella, The Luminous Fairies and Mothra, releasing January 13th, 2026! We would like to thank @uminnpress.bsky.social for giving us the chance to do this! gforcekaijupod.buzzsprout.com/1032622/epis...

A friend of my brother's spotted the book I did with @lpennywark.bsky.social and @uminnpress.bsky.social in a bookstore in Edinburgh, and sent a pic to him, who shared it with me. Please update your contacts to call me Mr. Worldwide.

Thx to @uminnpress.bsky.social for this talk about @aupresses.bsky.social publishing: share.transistor.fm/s/5c6c6e92 HT @lisambayer.bsky.social, Dean Smith @dukepress.bsky.social, Jennifer Crew @columbiaup.bsky.social, @williamgermano.bsky.social, @gmbritton.bsky.social, @noctambulate.bsky.social

It's one thing to hear from a publisher, and another to hear about books from the wonderful people who write them. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG9o... @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social @bethrooney.bsky.social @tamaradean.bsky.social @pipsen72.bsky.social

BOOK NEWS Exploring the rhetoric of ecofascism as a political genre Recent release from @uminnpress.bsky.social journalofmodernliterature.blogspot.com/2025/12/book...

Thrilled that my picture book, WE MISS YOU, GEORGE FLOYD is a finalist for this auspicious award. 🙏🏾🤩 Awesome to be in the company of such phenomenal creators of stories for children about peace, justice, and resistance.

🆕🎧: Publishing leaders look back at decades of transformation and tenacity in the industry. A conversation for the occasion of director Doug Armato's retirement, with Lisa Bayer, Greg Britton, Jennifer Crewe, Dean Smith, and moderator Bill Germano. share.transistor.fm/s/5c6c6e92

Love to see more readers gaining access to this fantastic book, published in the U.S. by @uminnpress.bsky.social. If you haven’t read it, we recommend you do. Available here: bookshop.org/a/106297/978...

Thrilled to see Histories of the Transgender Child included here!

Meredith Willson (The Music Man) genially chronicles failures as he made his place in show business during the pivotal early 1950s, when radio was being overtaken by television, in this back-in-print memoir—out today! www.upress.umn.edu/978151792062...

"Kids these days, standing up to hatred and fear, are seeing a lot of themselves in books at the moment, that’s for sure." Huge thanks to librarian Betsy Bird for this amazing write-up of LEAF TOWN FOREVER from @uminnpress.bsky.social at @slj.com! afuse8production.slj.com/2025/12/16/3...

Hey y'all! This week Olive Demar and @elimeyerhoff.bsky.social look at the university’s role as a colonial and capitalist apparatus, arguing that we need to free education from the institutions that betray and abandon it. spectrejournal.com/reckoning-wi...

“At the front line of all of these things, beauty must still exist." Kao Kalia Yang explores the world of children's literature through readings, songs, and stories on Friday, Dec. 19th, at the Ordway in St. Paul. sahanjournal.com/arts-culture...