University of Minnesota Press

09/19/2025

Matt was joined by Minnesota author Larry Millett. They talked about his newest book, Mysterious Tales of Old Minneapolis. Order he book now: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517920470/mysterious-tales

09/18/2025

A new issue of the Journal of International Surrealism, with International Society for the Study of Surrealism, is available via Project MUSE
-Special issue: Surrealism and the Black World
-Guest Editors: Tiffany E. Barber and Carine Harmand
-Journal Editors: Katharine Conley and Alyce Mahon
-OA article: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/23/article/969222

09/18/2025

Morgan Park was a company town designed to house employees of U.S. Steel’s Duluth Works steel plant. The neighborhood, built in the 1910s, included single-family homes as well as a boarding house and various community buildings. In addition to a clubhouse, hospital, churches, and police and fire departments, Morgan Park also had its own school with a large playground, pictured here.

Learn more about Morgan Park and its role as a planned community in our featured primary source set of the month: https://mndigital.org/projects/primary-source-sets/morgan-park-u-s-steels-company-town-duluth-minnesota

Image: Morgan Park school playground, Duluth, 1917. University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library collection, https://collection.mndigital.org/catalog/nemhc:3500

09/16/2025

🎧 New episode on our podcast on Star Trek (beginning with Enterprise) and the franchise era, with Adam Kotsko and David Seitz.

In his book Late Star Trek, Adam Kotsko analyzes the wealth of content set within Star Trek’s sprawling continuity, beginning with the prequel series Enterprise, highlighting creative triumphs and the tendency for franchise faithfulness to get in the way of new ideas. Arguing against the...

09/12/2025

A lovely shout-out to Talia Mae Bettcher's BEYOND PERSONHOOD by Stephanie Burt in the NYT:

She put aside a bunch of projects, including a book about Walt Whitman, to publish “Taylor’s Version: The Poetic and Musical Genius of Taylor Swift.”

09/11/2025

"We must, believed Serres, be in constant motion to establish a reciprocal give-and-take between ourselves and others, in the process ceaselessly altering our understanding." Zach Gibson revisits Michel Serres' "Hermes" series by way of a new translation by the University of Minnesota Press. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/revisiting-michel-serress-hermes-series/

09/10/2025

David Non-Fiction https://www.writerscast.com/tamara-dean-shelter-and-storm-at-homes-in-the-driftless/ WritersCast

09/10/2025

New releases this week!

-The Bad Child: A Maria Janion Reader, edited and translated by Marta Figlerowicz

-Her Place in the Woods: The Life of Helen Hoover, by David Hakensen

-Theory of Seeing by Władysław Strzemiński