“'Film doesn’t really care about national borders,' Kurosawa writes. 'It plays an important role by enabling people to understand each other, actually.' The sentiment holds true for books, too." www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-fea...

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

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...

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

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...

Margret Grebowicz hypothesizes, "Loving dogs has become an expression not of loneliness but of how unhappy many Americans are with society and other people." theconversation.com/americans-ar...

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

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...

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...

2000 agents are still here. Woke up this morning to horns and whistles down my street -- panic jumped out of bed ready to run outside, but the cars were being pursued. ICE is still kidnapping people, still getting stymied at every turn, still brutalizing observers because they know they're losing.

"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-...

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

Out today! Very excited to see Anne McKnight's translation of Long Take, an intimate, provocative, & revealing portrait of Kurosawa from his own writings, conversations w/writer Inoue Hisashi & director Yamada Yōji, & essays by daughter & colleague Kurosawa Kazuko www.upress.umn.edu/978151790329...

Erica Rand's Forerunner, Skating Away from the Binary, is out today! Through exquisite writing, Rand offers a vision of sport as a space where all people can experience joy and freedom in their bodies and identities. www.upress.umn.edu/978151792055...

An amazing MN Librarian assembled us a reading list to add to the website so people can do more than donate, they can learn to organize in their communities. standwithminnesota.com/read

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

"In an age increasingly defined by technological acceleration and ethical diminishment, Günther Anders’ work stands as a grim but indispensable companion" marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/2246...

So much love for @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social

South Minneapolis this morning bringmethenews.com/minnesota-ne...

the population of Minneapolis is about 425,000

Empty parking lot at a Minneapolis Target during a statewide strike with many businesses closed today. Target has remained open. With negative temperatures and a lot of outdoor protest today, the one product people may go in for is sold out at their stores - hand warmers.

"Nothing Wanting reveals not only how much our world is built on constructing absences and overlooking presence through compulsory sexuality, but how much we might miss when that is the only lens available." Review of KJ Cerankowski's NOTHING WANTING ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2026/01/19/t...

"Leon J. Hilton’s Counter-cartographies: Neurodivergence and the Errancies of Performance (Minnesota UP, 2025) is a book that does what it says." socialtextjournal.org/on-counter-c...

Another shooting by ICE agents tonight in North Minneapolis. Word is that two people have been critically injured by ICE. 😡😡

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!

DIVEST!

Neighbors standing guard over churches so that parents can have secret meetings about how to keep daycares safe. This is what's happening in the Twin Cities right now.

A teenage boy was walking home in Minneapolis yesterday when four masked men jumped out of a van & questioned him - with no parent or guardian present. He was bundled into the van & taken away. Bystanders heard the boy say: “Can I just go home?” I don’t know how America comes back from all this.

MLA is over, but you can still still visit our books online and take 30% off at z.umn.edu/mla26 #MLA26

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

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.

Explore Günther Anders’s The Obsolescence of the Human, now available in English—one of the twentieth century’s most important works on the philosophy of technology #MLA26

It’s the last day to visit @uminnpress.bsky.social at #MLA26, but you can still visit our books online and take advantage of our sale at z.umn.edu/mla26

Explore Leif Weatherby’s Language Machines ar MLA or online at z.umn.edu/mla26 #MLA26

Dive into Our Fire Survives the Storm by Daniel Heath Justice, the twentieth-anniversary edition of the path-clearing study of Cherokee writing in English, with an emphatic refocus on voices from the three Cherokee tribal nations at MLA or online at z.umn.edu/mla26 #MLA26

Check out Jonathan Eburne’s Exploded Views at MLA or online at z.umn.edu/mla26 #MLA26

Come see Ideal Subjects by Olga Goriunova at MLA or online at z.umn.edu/mla26 #MLA26

It’s day 2 in the book exhibit at MLA! Stop by and see us @uminnpress.bsky.social or check out our online exhibit at z.umn.edu/mla26 for 30% off! #MLA26

Hey, MLA! Check out KJ Cerankowski’s Nothing Wanting: advancing asexuality studies in new, queer directions—beyond identity and beyond the human #MLA26 Get 30% off at z.umn.edu/mla26

Don’t miss Eric A. Vázquez’s States of Defeat at MLA! Read about the cultural reverberations of Central America’s failed revolutions on US intellectual thought #MLA26

"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...

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

Check out The Horror Theory Reader, edited by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock #MLA26 Get 30% off at z.umn.edu/mla26

Get a 30% discount for Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination using code MN94920

Don’t miss Kristin Bluemel’s Enchanted Wood, "a multilayered feminist study of the brilliant and captivating work of four women wood engravers."—Rosemary Shirley Get 30% off at z.umn.edu/mla26! #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...

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!

"We might not win in the end, but even in the attempt to resist, we will salvage some of our humanity." Thomas Dekeyser's @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social TECHNO-NEGATIVE is a Lit Hub most anticipated book of 2026! lithub.com/lit-hubs-mos...