“Aunt Yoanna” from LIVING IN FIRE by Antoine Volodine, recommended by Brian Evenson

October is here, and, with it, the thrills and chills of Spooky Season, a month of masks, madness, merriment, magic, and, of course, marvelous things to read (whether they be spooky or not). It has…

“Aunt Yoanna” from LIVING IN FIRE by Antoine Volodine, recommended by Brian Evenson

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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...

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...

How women wood engravers helped reshape the visual and literary landscape of modern Britain Amid the austerities of Depression-era publishing in Britain, urb...

Collected writings from a visionary thinker about the perilous edge between patriotism and fascism   How do nationalism and patriotism shape our understand...

American Occupation, Literary Hub’s anthology of letters written by Minnesota authors, poets, and journalists during Operation Metro Surge, releases in January.

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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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks University of Southampton's Thomas Dekeyser about worries AI is becoming fatally out of control.

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...

Join us for a reading and conversation with Elizabethe Payne, editor of the new book Queer Kids and Social Violence: The Limits of Bullying.

Peatlands are rich ecosystems and critical carbon sinks—thanks to climate change, they are drying up

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…

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…

From Boundary Waters classics to harrowing expeditions and coffee-table favorites, these are the books every paddler should know.

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...

What does it mean to live in a world that is already broken, and what can disability justice teach us about creating more livable futures? In this episode of The Good Robot, Eleanor Drage speaks with ...

Driven to understand their fate and future, along with the elemental forces that shape this ecological marvel, Jennifer de Mooy, a conservationist who has been involved in climate policies, undertakes...

Less than two centuries ago finance - today viewed as the center of economic necessity and epitome of scientific respectability - stood condemned as disreput...

Jessica DeWitt interviews Jennifer de Mooy about her new book, Water, Carbon, Time, exploring peatlands, environmental history, language, and climate hope.

These books help new educators gain insight into the emotional labor of the profession and prepare for the first day of school and beyond.

Policing and incarceration in the twenty-first century are not wholly human practices. The strategies, tactics, and encounters that organize the carceral state are developed and prosecuted in colla…

Olfactory Worldmaking By Hsuan L. Hsu University of Minnesota Press, 2026 ISBN 978-1-5179-2123-1  https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517921231/o...

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