🆕🎧: Excited about this brand-new episode on our podcast featuring translator Barbara Sjoholm in conversation with Lise Lunge-Larsen about translating the near and far worlds of Sámi folktales collected by Qvigstad and Saba: share.transistor.fm/s/4b885835

Two new journal issues: -Cultural Critique 131. -The Moving Image 24.1-2: Government Film. Guest Editor: Brian Real. Free article: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55216 Journals available on @projectmuse.bsky.social @culturalcritique.bsky.social @nfazio.bsky.social

As of today this award-winning novel is now available in the US via @uminnpress.bsky.social www.upress.umn.edu/978151791895... Highly recommend this powerful, historically-based read about #Indigenous Sámi displaced by a hydropower dam via a dubious claim that ‘reindeer herders can live anywhere'

Loving the newest @ebbooksellers.bsky.social newsletter and lovely shout-out to @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social 's TECHNO-NEGATIVE: mailchi.mp/ebbookseller...

We don't send many emails, and we almost never send emails featuring nothing but books. But today we thought, why not now? Ten(ish) books -- or bookish magazines -- we're excited to be featuring this summer. mailchi.mp/ebbookseller...

Could peatlands combat global warming? In parts a travelogue, an ecological history, and a call to action, Jennifer de Mooy's forthcoming book explores peatlands in all their richness and mystery. www.upress.umn.edu/978151792139... #WorldPeatlandsDay

Two new books out in the world! #PubDay The Home of the Drowned, a novel by int'l prize-winner Elin Anna Labba, translated by Elizabeth Clark Wessel. Natural Lection: Cultures of Evolution by @jonothingeb.bsky.social opens a novel terrain of scientific and political possibility.

"The definition of human is implicitly reduced to the narrowing set of behaviors, traits, and capacities that machines do not yet possess—which leaves secular humanists defending the shrinking ground that is left." Nice h/t @leifw.bsky.social in @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

Announcing the release of the online, open-access edition of _Critical Infrastructure Studies & Digital Humanities_ (in Debates in DH series): dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/cri.... Editors: Alan Liu, Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, James Smihties @jamessmithies.bsky.social). Print ed. appeared January 2026

my wife's book on a real and fascinating gender-nonconforming person in the gilded age is up for preorder! with high praise from the great @hughryan.bsky.social and Emily Skidmore. Lots of other good offerings by university of mn press as well. www.upress.umn.edu/978151791584...

File under: Books that feel written for me and my weird interests, specifically. Immediate pre-order.

Wonderful to see Elin Anna Labba's THE HOME OF THE DROWNED featured in @theguardian.com best recent translated fiction roundup! US edition releases June 2nd!! www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

"A thorough primer on debates about the post-cinematic and digital cinema theory." www.invisibleculturejournal.com/pub/interact...

The Horror Theory Reader is indispensable for scholars and will be of interest to anyone curious about our paradoxical enjoyment of appalling and fearsome things. Browse the MNG Horror Studies virtual exhibit: buff.ly/H1B0bae @horrorstudies.bsky.social @uminnpress.bsky.social #Horrorstudies

📣 Exciting forthcoming ​b​ooks await! 50+ titles in our Fall/Winter catalog: Essays, memoir, environment, activism, fiction, nonfiction—and so many amazing voices! (more in comments) z.umn.edu/fw26

Preorder-able, $10 @uminnpress.bsky.social A book influenced by Ursula Le Guin's dark insights, eg "...I hope you will remember that darkness is your country, where you live, where no wars are fought and no wars are won, but where the future is. Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country."

Big PUB DAY today! -Where Is My Sister? by @shannongibney.bsky.social -Out of the Darkness, a collection of Swedish fiction ed. by Vendela Vida, David Katznelson, and Ulf Olsson -Sámi Folktales from the Near and Far Worlds, collected by Just Knud Qvigstad and Isak Saba, transl. by Barbara Sjoholm

"This heartfelt story fills an important void." Starred @ala-booklist.bsky.social review for @shannongibney.bsky.social's WHERE IS MY SISTER? www.booklistonline.com/products/982...

@shannongibney.bsky.social’s important new picture book WHERE IS MY SISTER was released this week by @uminnpress.bsky.social. You can find the book at @redballoonbookshop.bsky.social and other independent bookstores!

Thanks to everyone who came out to the launch of my new children’s picture book, WHERE IS MY SISTER? at @redballoonbookshop.bsky.social last night! Especially my dear friend @kaokaliayang.bsky.social whose moderating was hilarious, insightful, and on point. ✌🏽🤩 @uminnpress.bsky.social

"Vivid and arresting . . . armchair adventurers will savor this." @publisherswkly.bsky.social reviews WHERE THE GREEN LIGHT SHINES: www.publishersweekly.com/9781517915810

I just finished going over this MS for the last time, so I'm celebrating by telling you all! This is Living in Fire by Antoine Volodine, the last Volodine novel*, forthcoming from @uminnpress.bsky.social in October! Available for pre-order! Exciting!!!!! www.upress.umn.edu/978151791977...

BOOK NEWS Tracing the figure of the Asian girl in midcentury and postwar American fiction Recent release from @uminnpress.bsky.social #AAPIheritagemonth #academicsky #books #literature journalofmodernliterature.blogspot.com/2026/05/book...

Three new books out today! -The 3rd book in Mary Logue's Brigid Reardon Mystery series is set in Salt Lake City, 1881. -A visionary reckoning with prophecy, possession, and the grammar of liberation by Reid Gómez. -A manifesto on political masochism by Steven Swarbrick in our Forerunners series.

I'm excited to share a podcast I recorded with University of Minnesota Press, with my colleagues Maritza Cardenas (U of Arizona) and Jason Ruíz (Notre Dame), out now on all major podcast platforms: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

A robust ethnography of Islamic Relief explores difficult questions about the extensive reach of white supremacy. 🎟️ buff.ly/G5CDJWe 🗓️ 20 May 6pm 📍Contact Theatre, Manchester @uminnpress.bsky.social

Jill Lepore in @newyorker.com : Something big is happening, something fascinating: we can talk to machines. “We do not have language yet for this twist in our plot” —Leif Weatherby (Language Machines) www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

COVER REVEAL w/ @uminnpress.bsky.social Liberation Is Other People gives a vision of politics as a shared, impure, always imperfect process of creation. Freedom is exercising the capacity to shape the world with others. Our greatest possibility lies not in heroic martyrdom but in working together.

Admission is free for this May 19 event, but if you want the best seat in the house, with a glass of wine, charcuterie, and a signed copy of Girl Gone Wild by @courtneykocak.bsky.social you can reserve a VIP ticket here! Only 10 available! triohousepress.myshopify.com/products/vip...

very excited to have a date for the publication of my new book: 8 December!! 'Animated Urbanism' interrogates the visualisation of the mandate that urban life should be 'smart.' @uminnpress.bsky.social www.upress.umn.edu/978151792206...

Out today in paperback!

Tomorrow!

Three new journal issues: -Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS) 13.1 -Markers 41 -International Journal of Surrealism (IJS) 3.2 Available on @projectmuse.bsky.social - links and free articles in comments.

I had the opportunity to speak with Matthew I. Thompson - @quickpickles.bsky.social - about his new book with @uminnpress.bsky.social, On Life Support: Eco-Dystopian Cinema in the Long 1970s. Full interview on @nichecanada.bsky.social here: niche-canada.org/2026/04/28/t...

Love both these dudes. @andrewkarre.bsky.social at Dutton, and Erik Anderson at @uminnpress.bsky.social As I always say, good editors are worth their weight in gold. And I have been privileged to work with each of them for so many years now. 🙏🏾✨✨

Unwrapping the new book. WHERE IS MY SISTER, a children’s picture book about stillbirth and infant loss, illustrated by Huy Von Lee, pubs May 19. @uminnpress.bsky.social

🆕🎧 New on the pod! @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social with @bcmerchant.bsky.social and Sarah Sharma on the long history of refusing the machine. share.transistor.fm/s/a1ed7187

📢 Pub Day! Building a New Table: A Community-Centered Handbook for Transformative Social Change by Dr. Brittany Lewis, founder and CEO of Research in Action, is now available. Minneapolis launch tonight: www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc...

Thrilled to say two poets recognized by the 2026 Pulitzer Prize committee have appeared in collections of ours: Poetry winner Juliana Spahr in Creature Needs, and finalist Douglas Kearney in We Are Meant to Rise. www.upress.umn.edu/awards/

The MN Book Awards ceremony is this week! 5 of ours are finalists! 🙌 -House on Rondo (Middle Grade Lit) -Lucky Tomorrow (Short Story) -What Doesn't Kill Me Makes Me Weirder and Harder to Relate To (Memoir) -Gentlemen of the Woods (Nonfiction) -Her Place in the Woods (MN Nonfiction)

Celebrating Milton Santos on his birthday- a pioneering thinker of critical geography, his work reshaped how we understand space, urban life & globalisation. Explore his legacy with these essential reads 📚👇 #MiltonSantos buff.ly/yJffvix @dukepress.bsky.social @uminnpress.bsky.social

Welcome to the second keynote at the 2026 Midwestern History Conference! Dr. Kai Bosworth (@kaibosworth.bsky.social), Associate Professor of International Studies at Virgina Commonwealth University, will present "Pipeline Opposition and Midwestern Regional Identities". #MHA2026 THREAD:

Bound to be one of the most important critical and theoretical books on the meaning of neural networks (and not just for vision). Congratulations to Leonardo Impett and Fabian Offert @zentralwerkstatt.org! Freshly published from meson press and University of Minnesota Press. @uminnpress.bsky.social

So excited that the book is coming out in November from @uminnpress.bsky.social!

Virtual event with @nextcity.org May 6th! (details at this link)

English major Simona Simha interned this year at @uminnpress.bsky.social and is pursuing our Certificate in Editing & Publishing. She’s also majoring in Theatre Arts: Design & Technology. Fave reading for a class? “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong and Sir Gawain & the Green Knight"

"This study brings French queer film studies into view in an entertaining writing style, even with its complex network of theories." Thank you, BAFTSS, and congrats on winning Best First Monograph, @julesod.bsky.social ! www.baftss.org/winners-pub-...

🆕🎧 New on the pod: Cinematic activism and solidarity politics in the US with Umayyah Cable, Evelyn Alsultany, Keith Feldman, and Melani McAlister: share.transistor.fm/s/3c57835c

Hua Hsu references @danhf.bsky.social 's 'Fast and Furious Franchising' in a NYer piece on the mega-franchise:

Our editor-in-chief, @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social, speaks with @quickpickles.bsky.social about his new book, On Life Support: Eco-Dystopian Cinema in the Long 1970s ( @uminnpress.bsky.social 2026) niche-canada.org/2026/04/28/t... #envhist #envhum #filmstudies #ecocrit #scifi