August 28, 2018

Book Excerpt! Minae Mizumura and The Fall of Language in the Age of English

Japanese novelist Minae Mizumura’s The Fall of Language in the Age of English lays bare the struggle to retain the brilliance of one’s own language in this period of English-language dominance. Publishers Weekly called the book: “An eye-opening call to...

August 28, 2018

New Book Tuesday! The Emergence of Iranian Nationalism, The Future of Catastrophe, Tainted Witness, and More!

Our weekly list of new releases is now available! The Emergence of Iranian Nationalism Race and the Politics of Dislocation Reza Zia-Ebrahimi The Future as Catastrophe Imagining Disaster in the Modern Age Eva Horn. Translated by Valentine Pakis. New in...

August 27, 2018

Book Giveaway! Women in Translation Month

August is Women in Translation Month–a time in which we celebrate and read works in translation by female authors. In appreciation of our women in translation, this week we are delving into our backlist to feature fiction and nonfiction from...

August 23, 2018

Found Life: A Conversation with Linor Goralik

August is Women in Translation Month–a time in which we celebrate and read works in translation by female authors. In appreciation of our women in translation, this week we’re featuring Found Life: Poems, Stories, Comics, a Play, and an Interview, by Linor...

August 22, 2018

Introducing Found Life

August is Women in Translation Month–a time in which we celebrate and read works in translation by female authors. In appreciation of our women in translation, this week we’re featuring Found Life: Poems, Stories, Comics, a Play, and an Interview, by Linor...

August 21, 2018

The Voices of Linor Goralik

August is Women in Translation Month–a time in which we celebrate and read works in translation by female authors. In appreciation of our women in translation, this week we’re featuring Found Life: Poems, Stories, Comics, a Play, and an Interview, by Linor...

August 21, 2018

New Book Tuesday! Naming Violence, Staged, What Kind of Creatures Are We, and More!

Our weekly list of new releases is now available! Naming Violence A Critical Theory of Genocide, Torture, and Terrorism Mathias Thaler Staged Show Trials, Political Theater, and the Aesthetics of Judgment Minou Arjomand What Kind of Creatures Are We? Noam...

August 20, 2018

Book Giveaway! Found Life:Poems, Stories, Comics, a Play, and an Interview

August is Women in Translation Month–a time in which we celebrate and read works in translation by female authors. In appreciation of our women in translation, this week we’re featuring Found Life: Poems, Stories, Comics, a Play, and an Interview, by...

August 17, 2018

In Commemoration of Sofia Khvoshchinskaya

In honor of Women in Translation Month, this week we’ve been featuring Sofia Khvoshchinskaya’s City Folk and Country Folk, but today, we’re featuring the author herself. In commemoration of this wonderful writer, Nora Seligman Favorov has provided us with the following overview of Khvoshchinskaya’s life. Remember to...

August 16, 2018

Celebrating More Than a Decade of Publishing in Business

Founded in 2007, Columbia Business School Publishing extends Columbia Business School’s commitment to bridging academic research and business practice and to developing entrepreneurs who create value for their stakeholders and their community. The imprint’s first books, More Than You Know by Michael...

August 16, 2018

Erast Ovcharov Makes Advances Toward Olenka (chapter 14 excerpt)

In honor of Women in Translation Month,  this week we’re featuring Sofia Khvoshchinskaya’s City Folk and Country Folk. Yesterday, you read about a A Nineteenth-Century #MeToo Moment. Today, we present you with an excerpt of chapter 14, in which Erast Ovcharov makes advances toward Olenka, our young female...

August 15, 2018

A Nineteenth-Century #MeToo Moment?

Nora Seligman Favorov

There is a scene in Sofia Khvoshchinskaya’s 1863 novel City Folk and Country Folk where Olenka, the young female protagonist, and Erast Ovcharov, the urban sophisticate who is staying at her mother’s estate for the summer, are both riding in...