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April 16, 2012

Book Giveaway! Hollywood's Copyright Wars by Peter Decherney

This week our featured book is Hollywood’s Copyright Wars: From Edison to the Internet, by Peter Decherney. Throughout the week we will highlight aspects of the book and we are also offering a FREE copy of the book to one...

April 12, 2012

Udi Aloni and Slavoj Zizek in NYC

Over the next couple weeks, New York City is going to be treated to a couple of unique events featuring CUP author Udi Aloni and CUP Insurrections Series editor Slavoj Zizek.

March 28, 2012

Noah Isenberg on Billy Wilder

On the tenth anniversary of Billy Wilder’s death, Noah Isenberg, author of Weimar Cinema: An Essential Guide to Classic Films of the Era, has written a great review of the director’s life and career for the Los Angeles Review of...

March 14, 2012

Dean Starkman, Felix Salmon, and Others Discuss the Business and Financial Press

Last week the Columbia Journalism Review and Public Business, organized a panel Has the Business Press Failed the Public Trust?. Among the panelists were Dean Starkman and Felix Salmon, co-editors of our forthcoming Best Business Writing 2012. The discussion focused...

January 10, 2012

Dean Starkman on the "CNBC-ization" of Business News

In the most recent issue of the Columbia Journalism Review, Dean Starkman, co-editor of the forthcoming The Best Business Writing 2012, writes about the development and the recent history of the business press In the article, A Narrowed Gaze: How...

December 19, 2011

Christopher Hitchens on Unanswerable Prayers

Last week brought the very sad news of Christopher Hitchens’s passing after a struggle with cancer. We were fortunate enough to have been able to include some of his writing in The Best American Magazine Writing series. In 2007, his...

December 14, 2011

Dean Starkman on the Limited Vision of News Gurus

Longform recently selected Dean Starkman’s Confidence Game: The Limited Vision of News Gurus, as one of the best articles for 2011 in media. Starkman’s article, which was published in the Columbia Journalism Review, and is now available as a digital...

November 15, 2011

Columbia Journalism Review Books

A recent article in Publishers Weekly highlighted the launch of our new series Columbia Journalism Review Books, which coincides with the fiftieth anniversary of the Columbia Journalism Review. The series will be edited by Victor Navasky, Evan Cornog, Mike Hoyt,...

November 4, 2011

Second Read: Ted Conover on Stanley Booth's The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones

We conclude our focus on Second Read: Writers Look Back at Classic Works of Reportage, edited by James Marcus, with some excerpts from Ted Conover’s essay on Stanley Booth’s reporting on the Rolling Stones during their 1969 tour, collected in...

November 3, 2011

Second Read: Miles Corwin on Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "The Story of a Shipwrecked Soldier"

In his essay for Second Read: Writers Look Back at Classic Works of Reportage, Miles Corwin discusses Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s career of a journalist and how it shaped his later work as a novelist. Marquez’s journalistic work The Story of...

November 2, 2011

Second Read: Tom Piazza on Norman Mailer's The Armies of the Night

“The Armies of the Night remains one of the most enlivening, and most deeply American, testaments ever written.”—Tom Piazza We continue our focus on Second Read: Writers Look Back on Classic Works of Reportage with an excerpt from Tom Piazza’s...

November 1, 2011

Second Read: Rick Perlstein on Paul Cowan

“Paul Cowan was a journalist who threw himself into situations that might just change his mind, and how many of us dare to do that?”—Rick Perlstein As the title suggests, Second Read: Writers Look Back at Classic Works of Reportage,...