Monthly Archive: February, 2016

February 29, 2016

The Story Behind "Spotlight" — Roy J. Harris on the Boston Globe's Pulitzer-Winning Story

Before Spotlight, the movie, won the Oscar for Best Picture, the Boston Globe won the Pulitzer for its remarkable investigative journalism. Below is the chapter “Epiphany in Boston: 2003: The Globe and the Church,” from Pulitzer’s Gold: A Century of...

February 26, 2016

Images from "How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?"

See works by graphic memoirists included in Tahneer Oksman’s new book.

February 25, 2016

Tahneer Oksman on Writing a Jewish Book

Tahneer Oksman explains the scholarly and personal origins behind her new book “‘How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?’: Women and Jewish American Identity in Contemporary Graphic Memoirs”

February 24, 2016

Columbia University Press at Columbia University

Each month we feature a new set of books by Columbia professors in a vitrine on the Columbia University campus: This month’s books include: The Wheel: Inventions and Reinventions Richard W. Bulliet Religion, Secularism, and Constitutional Democracy Edited by Jean...

February 24, 2016

Tahneer Oksman Recommends Recent Graphic Memoirs

Tahneer Oksman, author of “How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?”, on new graphic works by women.

February 23, 2016

An Interview with Tahneer Oksman, author of "How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?"

“What’s interesting about comics is that you have artists drawing versions of themselves over and over on the same page. You can actually see their serial selves, their past, present, and future self-portraits in relation to one another.”—Tahneer Oksman The...

February 23, 2016

New Book Tuesday: New Books by Lévi-Strauss, Vattimo, and More!

Our weekly listing of new titles now available.

February 22, 2016

Umberto Eco on Language and Lunacy and the Force of Falsity

We were very saddened to learn of the recent passing of noted linguist and novelist Umberto Eco. We were fortunate enough to have the opportunity to publish Serendipities: Language and Lunacy, one of Eco’s works, which The Atlantic called “Erudite,...

February 19, 2016

The First Financial Commandment for the 21st Century: “Thou Shalt Not Plead Total Investment Ignorance”

Norton Reamer and Jesse Downing, authors of INVESTMENT: A HISTORY, discuss their first financial commandment for today’s investors.

February 19, 2016

Moments in Investing History You've Never Heard Of

Watch a short series of Youtube videos produced by the INVESTMENT: A HISTORY team that take a closer look at turning points in the history of investing that may not be as well-known as they should be.

February 18, 2016

Thursday Fiction Corner: Ch’oe Yun’s There a Petal Silently Falls

Russian Library editor Christine Dunbar asks how much, if any, contextualizing information should be provided to the reader of a translation.

February 18, 2016

Savvy Investors Look Back at the History of Investment for Lessons for 2016

Norton Reamer and Jesse Downing, authors of INVESTMENT: A HISTORY, discuss how investors can learn practical lessons for 2016 from investing history.