Books for Review
the minnesota review welcomes proposals for reviews of recent books, as well as of journals, significant articles, publishers' catalogs or programs, book series, conferences, novels, poetry, films, television, advertising, and other venues of cultural and intellectual work. We much prefer overviews of a group of work, diagnoses of recent trends, or surveys of the work of a particular critic to reports on individual books. For examples, check out the review-essays in this and past issues. Here is a list of books we have received from publishers (bear in mind that they might already have been sent out to people by the time the issue is printed):
Adinolfi, Francesco. Mondo Exotica: Sounds, Visions, Obsessions of the Cocktail Generation. Trans. and ed. Karen Pinkus with Jason Vivrette. Durham: Duke UP, 2008.
Anderson, Perry. Spectrum: From Right to Left in the World of Ideas. New York: Verso, 2008.
The Animal Studies Group. Killing Animals. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2006.
Berlant, Lauren. The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture. Durham: Duke UP, 2008
Bousquet, Marc. How the University Works: Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation. New York: NYU P, 2008.
Caspar, Scott E., et al., eds. A History of the Book in America: Volume 3: The Industrial Book, 1840-1880. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2007.
Chambers, Iain. Mediterranean Crossings: The Politics of an Interrupted Modernity. Durham: Duke UP, 2008.
Chodat, Robert. Worldly Acts and Sentient Things: The Persistence of Agency from Stein to DeLillo. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2008.
Cook, Richard M. Alfred Kazin: A Biography. New Haven: Yale UP, 2007.
Cusset, François. French Theory: How Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, & Co. Transformed the Intellectual Life of the United States. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2008.
Donoghue, Frank. The Last Professors: The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities. New York: Fordham UP, 2008.
Doyle, Laura. Freedom's Empire: Race and the Rise of the Novel in Atlantic Modernity, 1640-1940. Durham: Duke UP, 2008.
Duncan, Ian. Scott's Shadow: The Novel in Romantic Edinburgh. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2008.
Ebert, Teresa L., and Mas'ud Zavarzadeh. Class in Culture. Boulder: Paradigm, 2008.
Ehrenberg, Ronald G., ed. What's Happening to American Public Higher Education?: The Shifting Financial Burden. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2007.
Eze, Emmanuel Chukwudi. On Reason: Rationality in a World of Cultural Conflict and Racism. Durham: Duke UP, 2008.
Felski, Rita. Uses of Literature. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2008.
Fish, Stanley. Save the World on Your Own Time. New York: Oxford UP, 2008.
Gabbard, David, ed. Knowledge and Power in the Global Economy: The Effects of School Reform in a Neoliberal / Neoconservative Age. 2nd ed. New York: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2008.
Greenhouse, Steven. The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker. New York: Knopf, 2008.
Gross, Neil. Richard Rorty: The Making of an American Philosopher. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2008.
Hall, Donald E. The Academic Community: A Manual for Change. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2007.
Haraway, Donna J. When Species Meet. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2008.
Hartman, Geoffrey. A Scholar's Tale: Intellectual Journey of a Displaced Child of Europe. New York: Fordham UP, 2007.
Herring, Scott. Queering the Underworld: Slumming, Literature, and the Undoing of Lesbian and Gay History. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2008.
Hollinger, David A., ed. The Humanities and the Dynamics of Inclusion since World War II. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2006.
Jones, Gavin. American Hungers: The Problem of Poverty in U.S. Literature, 1840-1945. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2008.
Keeling, Kara. The Witch's Flight: The Cinematic, the Black Femme, and the Image of Common Sense. Durham: Duke UP, 2007.
Koenigsberger, Kurt. The Novel and the Menagerie: Totality, Englishness, and Empire. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2007.
Krause, Monika, Mary Nolan, Michael Palm, and Andrew Ross, eds. The University Against Itself: The NYU Strike and the Future of the Academic Workplace. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 2008.
Kronman, Anthony T. Education's End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life. New Haven: Yale UP, 2007.
Lanham, Richard A. The Economics of Attention: Style and Substance in the Age of Information. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2006.
Lawrence, Bruce B., and Aisha Karim, eds. On Violence: A Reader. Durham: Duke UP, 2008.
Leitch, Vincent B. Living with Theory. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2008.
Lewontin, Richard, and Richard Levins. Biology Under the Influence: Dialectical Essays on Ecology, Agriculture, and Health. New York: Monthly Review P, 2007.
Maldonado-Torres, Nelson. Against War: Views from the Underside of Modernity. Durham: Duke UP, 2008.
Mao, Douglas. Fateful Beauty: Aesthetic Environments, Juvenile Development, and Literature 1860-1960. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2008.
Marchal, Jules. Lord Leverhulme's Ghosts: Colonial Exploitation in the Congo. New York: Verso, 2008.
Mavor, Carol. Reading Boyishly: Roland Barthes, J. M. Barrie, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Marcel Proust, and D. W. Winnicott. Durham: Duke UP, 2007.
McShane, Clay, and Joel A. Tarr. The Horse in the City: Living Machines in the Nineteenth Century. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2007.
Mikics, David. A New Handbook of Literary Terms. New Haven: Yale UP, 2007.
Miller, Christopher L. The French Atlantic Triangle: Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade. Durham: Duke UP, 2008.
Morrissey, Lee. The Constitution of Literature: Literacy, Democracy, and Early English Literary Criticism. Palo Alto: Stanford UP, 2007.
Pettegrew, John. Brutes in Suits: Male Sensibility in America, 1890-1920. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2007.
Plain, Gill, and Susan Sellers, eds. A History of Feminist Literary Criticism. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2007.
Puar, Jasbir K. Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times. Durham: Duke UP, 2007.
Radhakrishnan, R. History, the Human, and the World Between. Durham: Duke UP, 2008.
Rediker, Marcus. The Slave Ship: A Human History. New York: Viking, 2007.
Renker, Elizabeth. The Origin of American Literature Studies: An Institutional History. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2007.
Rhodes, Chip. Politics, Desire, and the Hollywood Novel. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 2008.
Roiphe, Katie. Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Marriages. New York: Dial, 2007.
Ryan, Michael, ed. Cultural Studies: An Anthology. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2008.
Scandura, Jani. Down in the Dumps: Place, Modernity, American Depression. Durham: Duke UP, 2008.
Stivale, Charles J. Gilles Deleuze's ABC's: The Folds of Friendship. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins UP, 2008.
Sturken, Marita. Tourists of History: Memory, Kitsch, and Consumerism from Oklahoma City to Ground Zero. Durham: Duke UP, 2007.
Taylor, Nick. American-Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA, When FDR Put the Nation to Work. New York: Bantam, 2008.
Wilson, John K. Patriotic Correctness: Academic Freedom and Its Enemies. Boulder: Paradigm, 2008.
Wood, James. How Fiction Works. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.
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