Category: Columbia University

May 20, 2019

Taking Doctors’ Histories

“In these profiles of some of America’s most notable, influential, and fascinating MDs, Peter Wortsman merges social history, theory of the professions, and an intimate local cultural anthropology of Columbia University’s medical center.” ~ Rita Charon, MD, PhD, Professor and...

March 14, 2019

“Carolyn Heilbrun”

“They will know that there are books waiting for them as there were no books for me.” ~ Carolyn G. Heilbrun,  Women’s lives: The View from the Threshold Read the first section of Carolyn from Nancy K. Miller’s My Brilliant...

March 13, 2019

“The Art of Losing”

“In My Brilliant Friends, Nancy K. Miller depicts the life-altering importance of deep and nourishing friendships between and among women. Through vivid details and Miller’s singular point of view, we witness her transformative relationships with Carolyn Heilbrun, Naomi Schor, and Diane...

November 1, 2018

Columbia University Press Welcomes Miranda Martin to its Editorial Team

Last month, Miranda Martin joined Columbia University Press as Editor of our Life and Physical Science list. She came to us from the University of Chicago Press where she was most recently assistant editor for linguistics and life sciences, acquiring titles in...

March 14, 2018

Reflections of a Student Movement

“What we learned during those six days of the building occupation was the transformative power of individuals working together in pursuit of justice” –Nancy Biberman Today, students across the nation are walking out of their schools and classes in protest...

March 8, 2018

A Walk Down Memory Lane: Press Director Jennifer Crewe Reflects on Her Publishing Journey

“THE BOOKS WE PUBLISH SHAPE THE WORLD OF IDEAS AND ARE ESSENTIAL TO OUR UNDERSTANDING OF SOCIETY.” — JENNIFER CREWE, ASSOCIATE PROVOST & DIRECTOR, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS In honor of International Women’s Day, today, we’re featuring a post from our press...

March 7, 2018

Book Excerpt! Diana Trilling on the 1968 Columbia University Protests

Perhaps this was the act of courage he was facing all his life, and Diana replied: “Perhaps the act of courage he was facing all his life was to stay alive.” —LIONEL TRILLING, JOURNAL ENTRY, 1961 (RE: HEMINGWAY’ S SUICIDE) This week,...

March 6, 2018

Confessions of a Reluctant Revolutionary

During the campus protests of 1968, writer Phillip Lopate ’64CC, today a professor in the School of the Arts, joined an alumni group supporting the student radicals. Now, almost fifty years later, he’s still trying to make sense of his...

March 5, 2018

Book Giveaway! The Untold Journey: The Life of Diana Trilling

This week, our featured book is The Untold Journey: The Life of Diana Trilling, by Natalie Robin. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book and its authors on our blog as well as on our Twitter feed and our Facebook page. Enter our book giveaway by Friday...

December 8, 2016

Thursday Fiction Corner: Between Dog and Wolf in Translation

Sasha Sokolov’s BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF has appeared in English for the very first time, and so the idea of the “untranslatable” returns to the realm of translation mythology. Or does it?

December 6, 2016

Excerpt from Sasha Sokolov's Between Dog and Wolf

Read an excerpt from the highly-anticipated translation of Sasha Sokolov’s BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF.

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...