Books to Review for Configurations

If you would like to review one of the books below, please contact Jay Labinger.

Current as of November 1, 2024.


New listings:

Botany of Empire: Plant Worlds and the Scientific Legacies of Colonialism by Banu Subramaniam (U. Washington Press)

European Churches and Chinese Temples as Neuro-Theatrical Sites by Mark Pizzato (Bloomsbury) https://www.bloomsburyonlineresources.com/european-churches-and-chinese-temples-as-neuro-theatrical-sites

Dissident Gut by Jean Walton (Edinburgh UP) https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-dissident-gut.html

Literature and science, 1922-2022: modernist and postmodernist perspectives edited by Y. Chung, D. Crosara, M. Martino, and M. Mitrano (Lithos)

Firesign: The Electromagnetic History of Everything as Told on Nine Comedy Albums by Jeremy Braddock (University of California Press)

Creature Needs: Writers Respond to the Science of Animal Conservation edited by Christopher Kondrich, Lucy Spelman, and Susan Tacent (U. Minnesota Press) https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517918316/creature-needs/

Meaning Is Everywhere: Language, Artificial Intelligence, Society by Prashant Parikh (Hackett)

Sensing the Future: Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T) Edited by Nancy Perloff and Michelle Kuo (Getty Pubs)

Neuroscience and Art: The Neurocultural Landscape by Amy Ione (Springer) https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-62336-3

Art and Biotechnology: Viral Culture from CRISPR to COVID edited by Claire Correo Nettleton and Louise Mackenzie (Bloomsbury)

Kim Stanley Robinson by Andrew Rowcroft (Liverpool UP)

Brilliant Modernism: Cultures of Light and Modernist Poetry by Nicoletta Asciuto (Johns Hopkins UP) https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/33271/brilliant-modernism

Inspired and Outraged: The Making of a Feminist Physician by Alice Rothchild (New Village Press)

Unclaimed books from the previous list:

The Ethics of Giacomo Leopardi: A Philosophy for the Environmental Crisis by Alice Gibson (Bloomsbury)
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/ethics-of-giacomo-leopardi-9781350298668

Animal Satire edited by Susan McHugh and Robert McKay (Palgrave) https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-24872-6

Victorian Automataby Suzy Anger and Thomas Vranke (Cambridge UP) https://www.cambridge.org/us/universitypress/subjects/literature/english-literature-1830-1900/victorian-automata-mechanism-and-agency-nineteenth-century?format=HB

Meaning Is Everywhere: Language, Artificial Intelligence, Society by Prashant Parikh (Hackett) https://exacteditions.com/isbn/9781647921613

Computational Humanities edited by Lauren Tilton, David Mimno and Jessica Marie Johnson (Minnesota) https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/computational-humanities

Creature Needs: Writers Respond to the Science of Animal Conservation edited by Christopher Kondrich, Lucy Spelman, and Susan Tacent (Minnesota) https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/creature-needs

Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science by Renée Bergland (Princeton UP) https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691235288/natural-magic

At the Crossroads of the Senses: The Synaesthetic Metaphor Across the Arts in European Modernism by Polina Dimova (Penn State) https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-09781-7.html

Instrumentality: On Technical Objects and Orientations in the Later Middle Ages by J. Allan Mitchell (Minnesota) https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517917395/instrumentality/

Programming Language Cultures: Automating Automation by Brian Lennon (Stanford UP)