Books Received

the minnesota review welcomes proposals for reviews of these and other recent books as well as journals, significant articles, and other works reflecting cultural and intellectual currents. For reviews, we much prefer overviews to reports on specific books. For examples, check the review essays in this or recent past issues.

—Janell Watson, Editor

Barrett, Ross, and Daniel Worden, eds. 2014. Oil Culture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Bhandar, Brenna, and Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller, eds. 2015. Plastic Materialities: Politics, Legality, and Metamorphosis in the Work of Catherine Malabou. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Breu, Christopher. 2014. Insistence of the Material: Literature in the Age of Biopolitics. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Burgett, Bruce, and Glenn Hendler. 2014. Keywords for American Cultural Studies. 2nd ed. New York: NYU Press.

Burton, Antoinette, and Isabel Hofmeyr, eds. 2014. Ten Books That Shaped the British Empire: Creating an Imperial Commons. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Dean, Tim, Steven Ruszczycky, and David Squires, eds. 2014. Porn Archives. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Dillon, Elizabeth Maddock. 2014. New World Drama: The Performative Commons in the Atlantic World, 1649–1849. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Garrett, Brandon L. 2014. Too Big to Jail: How Prosecutors Compromise with Corporations. Cambridge, MA: Belknap.

Lazzarato, Maurizio. 2015. Governing by Debt. Translated by Joshua David Jordan. Los Angeles: Semiotext(e).

Levine, Caroline. 2015. Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Maxwell, William J. 2015. F. B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover’s Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Rivero, Yeidy M. 2015. Broadcasting Modernity: Cuban Commercial Television, 1950–1960. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Sears, Clare. 2014. Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Siedentop, Larry. 2014. Inventing the Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism. Cambridge, MA: Belknap.

Siegel, Greg. 2014. Forensic Media: Reconstructing Accidents in Accelerated Modernity. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Silverman, Kaja. 2015. The Miracle of Analogy; or, The History of Photography, Part 1. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Thompson, Krista A. 2015. Shine: The Visual Economy of Light in African Diasporic Aesthetic Practice. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Vaughan, Mary Kay. 2014. Portrait of a Young Painter: Pepe Zuniga and Mexico City’s Rebel Generation. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Wang, Hui. 2014. China from Empire to Nation-State. Translated by Michael Gibbs Hill. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

White, Patricia. 2015. Women’s Cinema, World Cinema: Projecting Contemporary Feminisms. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Zeller, Benjamin E., and Robert W. Balch. 2014. Heaven’s Gate: America’s UFO Religion. New York: NYU Press.