2021 Spring News Today

How a Black woman from Texas became one of the most well-known civil rights activists in Minnesota, detailing seven remarkable decades of fighting for fairness in voting, housing, education, and employment

The nature of the common loon, from biology to behavior, from one of the world’s foremost observers of the revered waterbird

The first scholarly study of Adrienne Rich’s full career examines the poet through her developing approach to the transformative potential of relationships

The first woman to ski solo to the South Pole tells the story of what it took to get there

Examines the complex ecology of quasi-public and privatized institutions that mobilize and administer many of the political, administrative, and fiscal resources of today’s metropolitan regions

Illustrations by Claudia McGehee Begin with a Bee and its story of the life of one queen bee, a rusty-patched bumblebee, teaches us not only about bees but also about our own responsibilities in the natural world Looking closely at the life cycle of one bee, this book helps readers of all ages understand and appreciate the contributions and significance of all bees. The queen bee’s life unfolds through captivating illustrations, while the authors impart the poetry and basic science of the rus...

The history of how a deceptively ordinary piece of office furniture transformed our relationship with information

Antoine Volodine has written more than forty novels, using various heteronyms in his ongoing post-exoticism project. Other works in translation include Radiant Terminus, In the Time of the Blue Ball by Manuela Drager. Lia Swope Mitchell holds a PhD in French from the University of Minnesota. Her translations include Survival of the Fireflies by Georges Didi-Huberman (Minnesota, 2018). Lionel Ruffel teaches comparative literature and création littéraire at Université Paris 8 (Vincennes-S...

Recipes and resources connect thoughtfully grown, gathered, and prepared ingredients to a healthy future—for food, farming, and humankind

Samuel Weber An influential thinker on the concept of singularity and its implications on politics, theology, economics, psychoanalysis, and literature Bringing together two decades of Samuel Weber’s essays, Singularity hones in on the surprising implications of the singular and its historical relation to the individual in politics, theology, economics, psychoanalysis, and literature. Weber reads the literary writings of Hölderlin, Nietzsche, and Kafka as exemplary practices that put singul...