We don't send many emails, and we almost never send emails featuring nothing but books. But today we thought, why not now? Ten(ish) books -- or bookish magazines -- we're excited to be featuring this summer.
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Announcing the release of the online, open-access edition of _Critical Infrastructure Studies & Digital Humanities_ (in Debates in DH series): dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/cri.... Editors: Alan Liu, Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, James Smihties @jamessmithies.bsky.social). Print ed. appeared January 2026
Two new journal issues:
-Cultural Critique 131.
-The Moving Image 24.1-2: Government Film. Guest Editor: Brian Real. Free article: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55216
Journals available on @projectmuse.bsky.social
@culturalcritique.bsky.social
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This volume reimagines the digital humanities (DH) through the expanding field of critical infrastructure studies as it explores how DH builds on and extends the field’s theories and technologies. Inc...
As of today this award-winning novel is now available in the US via @uminnpress.bsky.social www.upress.umn.edu/978151791895...
Highly recommend this powerful, historically-based read about #Indigenous Sámi displaced by a hydropower dam via a dubious claim that ‘reindeer herders can live anywhere'
Neighbors maintain a free broadband network in Philadelphia — @phillywireless.bsky.social — that now serves 7,600+ users. Read about the six-year project to build community-supported infrastructure in the latest Debates in DH volume from @uminnpress.bsky.social
cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2026/06...
"The definition of human is implicitly reduced to the narrowing set of behaviors, traits, and capacities that machines do not yet possess—which leaves secular humanists defending the shrinking ground that is left." Nice h/t @leifw.bsky.social in @theatlantic.com
www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
🆕🎧: Excited about this brand-new episode on our podcast featuring translator Barbara Sjoholm in conversation with Lise Lunge-Larsen about translating the near and far worlds of Sámi folktales collected by Qvigstad and Saba: share.transistor.fm/s/4b885835
Loving the newest @ebbooksellers.bsky.social newsletter and lovely shout-out to @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social 's TECHNO-NEGATIVE: mailchi.mp/ebbookseller...
Two new books out in the world! #PubDay
The Home of the Drowned, a novel by int'l prize-winner Elin Anna Labba, translated by Elizabeth Clark Wessel.
Natural Lection: Cultures of Evolution by @jonothingeb.bsky.social opens a novel terrain of scientific and political possibility.
Could peatlands combat global warming? In parts a travelogue, an ecological history, and a call to action, Jennifer de Mooy's forthcoming book explores peatlands in all their richness and mystery.
www.upress.umn.edu/978151792139...
#WorldPeatlandsDay
Alan Liu
East Bay Booksellers
University of Minnesota Press
New Publication Details Cooperative Broadband and Community-Supported Infrastructure
U Minnesota Press's Spring 26 catalog, listing our new Critical Infrastructure Studies & Digital Humanities (in Debates in DH series), eds. Alan Liu, Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, @jamessmithies.bsky.social): z.umn.edu/spring26. Table of contents: www.upress.umn.edu/978151791608... @uminnpress.bsky.social
Welcome to worlds where cunning foxes outsmart bears and humans, where people are turned into wolves, where ogres (stállus) terrorize communities until outwitted, where undead creatures of the sea (rá...
New Year read: Norway & Sweden repeatedly displaced #Indigenous Sámi saying ‘reindeer herders can live anywhere’
But nomadic people aren’t rootless, as the forthcoming translation of Elin Anna Labba’s award winning novel powerfully argues
Much Sámi ancestral territory was drowned by hydro dams:
