Category: Reviews

September 28, 2018

Zhang Yingyu’s The Book of Swindles

All this week we have been sharing Sinophone literature in English translation as part of our National Translation Month feature. Below is a roundup from The Book of Swindles—a seventeenth-century story collection, offers a panoramic guide to the art of deception....

January 21, 2016

Colin Dayan’s Ethics Without Reason

Read an excerpt from a wonderful review of Colin Dayan’s WITH DOGS AT THE EDGE OF LIFE by Simon Waxman of the Boston Review.

July 2, 2015

Thursday Fiction Corner — A New Perspective on Virginia Woolf

As Anne Fernald suggests in her very thoughtful review of Virginia Woolf: A Portrait, by Viviane Forrester, we don’t suffer from a lack of books on or biographies of Virginia Woolf. However, Forrester’s work, which won the Prix Goncourt award...

December 22, 2014

Evan Thompson's Waking, Dreaming, Being reviewed in the New York Times

Read Adam Frank’s NYTimes review of Evan Thompson’s WAKING, DREAMING, BEING: SELF AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN NEUROSCIENCE, MEDITATION, AND PHILOSOPHY!

February 13, 2014

"The Faster I Walk, The Smaller I Am" and Solitude

As close readers of our blog might have noticed in our recent New Book Tuesday posts, we are now distributing Dalkey Archive Press. Needless to say, we are very excited to be working with one of the leading publishers of...

September 5, 2013

Donald Prothero at Skylight Books to Talk About Abominable Science! & More Good News About the Book

A scientist discussing his great new book at a great bookstore equals, not surprisingly, a great author event. That is the equation in play tonight as Donald Prothero coauthor of Abominable Science!: Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous...

August 26, 2013

The Art of Being Erich Fromm – A Review from The New York Review of Books

A review of The Lives of Erich Fromm: Love’s Prophet, by Lawrence J. Friedman, was published in the Summer Issue of The New York Review of Books. A link to the review is available by clicking here (you need a...

June 18, 2013

Rewiring the Real reviewed in the Los Angeles Review of Books

Read an excellent, detailed review of Mark C. Taylor’s Rewiring the Real by N. Katherine Hayles from the LA Review of Books.

April 1, 2013

The Month Ahead, The Week That Was: Reviews, Author Events, and More

Forthcoming events with Columbia University Press authors in April include talks and signings by Michael Mann, author of The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines, Kara Newman, author of The Secret Financial Life of Food:...

January 30, 2013

A Good Week for Kara Newman

It’s been a good week for Kara Newman (@karanewman), author of The Secret Financial Life of Food: From Commodities Markets to Supermarkets. A recent review in the Washington Post praised the book for providing “a refreshing and much-needed look” at...

August 9, 2012

800CEOREAD Reviews Best Business Writing 2012

Earlier this summer the popular website 800CEOREAD reviewed The Best Business Writing 2012, edited by Dean Starkman, Martha M. Hamilton, Ryan Chittum, and Felix Salmon. The review praises the book for collecting the most compelling and important writing of the...

May 22, 2012

Media Alert! Ross Melnick's American Showman

Reviews of Ross Melnick’s American Showman.