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August 7, 2018

New Book Tuesday! Open to Reason, Media U, Queer Terror and More!

Our weekly list of new releases is now available! The Practice of Political Theory Rorty and Continental Thought Clayton Chin Media U How the Need to Win Audiences Has Shaped Higher Education Mark Garrett Cooper and John Marx Queer Terror...

August 7, 2018

Who’s Afraid of Julia Kristeva?

In honor of Women in Translation Month, this week, we are featuring Julia Kristeva– professor emerita of linguistics at the Université de Paris VII and author of many acclaimed works and novels. In fact, if there’s an English language translation...

August 6, 2018

Book Giveaway! The Enchanted Clock: A Novel

August marks 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, we’re kicking off this week’s give away with Julia Kristeva’s The Enchanted Clock, translated...

July 27, 2018

Sentimental Tales: A Note on the Cover

This week we’re featuring Mikhail Zoshchenko’s Sentimental Tales. Today, we’re offering you some insight about the book’s cover. Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich is the cover designer for the Russian Library series. While the books have visual components that help them to hang...

July 26, 2018

My Time at CUP: Linda Secondari

“As a designer, there is no higher honor than to develop an identity for an organization.” Linda Secondari CREATIVE DIRECTOR AND PRINCIPAL STUDIOLO SECONDARI COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1983–2008 SENIOR DESIGNER, 1993–1995 DESIGN AND PRODUCTION MANAGER, 1996–1999 CREATIVE DIRECTOR, 1999–2008 > I...

July 26, 2018

Poking Jokes: On Translating Mikhail Zoshchenko’s “Sentimental Tales”

“Some texts are just too funny—and too important—not to share with an audience that would otherwise have no access to them.” ~ Boris Dralyuk This week we’ve been featuring Mikhail Zoshchenko’s Sentimental Tales. Now that you’ve had a chance to read the...

July 25, 2018

Summer Reading Series: Mikhail Zoshchenko’s Sentimental Tales

This week we’re featuring Mikhail Zoshchenko’s Sentimental Tales. Last week, the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia excerpted the prefaces from the book as part of the Summer Reading Series. Below, is the first excerpt in the series. Remember...

July 24, 2018

New Book Tuesday! Afro-Dog, No Place for Russia, Foucault at the Movies and More!

Our weekly list of new titles is now available! Afro-Dog Blackness and the Animal Question Bénédicte Boisseron No Place for Russia European Security Institutions Since 1989 William H. Hill Foucault at the Movies Michel Foucault, Patrice Maniglier, Dork Zabunyan. Translated...

July 24, 2018

Introducing Sentimental Tales

Mikhail Zoshchenko was a popular leading Soviet satirist in the 1920s. Last month, we released the translation of Sentimental Tales, which are satirical portraits of small-town characters on the fringes of Soviet society in the first decade of Bolshevik rule. Translated by Boris...

July 19, 2018

Tariffs and Unintended Consequences: The Case of China’s War on Smuggling

This week, our featured book is China’s War on Smuggling: Law, Economic Life, and the Making of the Modern State, 1842–1965. Today we are happy to present a guest post from author Philip Thai on tariffs and unintended consequences. • • • • ...

July 18, 2018

Introducing China’s War on Smuggling: Law, Economic Life, and the Making of the Modern State, 1842–1965

This week, our featured book is China’s War on Smuggling: Law, Economic Life, and the Making of the Modern State, 1842–1965, by Philip Thai! Today we are happy provide an excerpt from the books introduction. Be sure to enter our drawing for...

July 17, 2018

New Book Tuesday! Retirement and Its Discontents, After Eunuchs, Islamophobia and the Novel and more!

Our weekly list of new releases is now available! Retirement and Its Discontents Why We Won’t Stop Working, Even if We Can Michelle Pannor Silver After Eunuchs Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China Howard Chiang Islamophobia...

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