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 13, 2018

Extreme Domesticity: A Book Review By Andrea Fontenot

This week, one of our featured books is Extreme Domesticity: A View from the Margins, by Susan Fraiman. Today, we are happy to present a review by Andrea Fontenot that originally appeared in 4columns.org. Enter our book giveaway by Friday at 1 PM for a...

March 13, 2018

New Book Tuesday! Local Politics in Jordan and Morocco, Game Theory and Climate Change, Avengers Assemble! and More!

​Our weekly listing of new books is now available!   Local Politics in Jordan and Morocco Strategies of Centralization and Decentralization Janine A. Clark   China’s Philological Turn Scholars, Textualism, and the Dao in the Eighteenth Century Ori Sela  ...

March 9, 2018

Weekly RoundUP: Women’s History, Pi Day and More!

Good evening UPers. Hope your day was better than mine. Why? Because I’m just generous that way. Ready for some news? I’ve got the scoop. UNIVERSITY PRESS OF KANSAS Happy belated birthday to all women everywhere – We rock; we’re...

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

New Book Tuesday! Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes, Gender, Power, and Talent, Shari’a Scripts, and More!

​Our weekly listing of new books is now available! Shari’a Scripts A Historical Anthropology Brinkley Messick Gender, Power, and Talent The Journey of Daoist Priestesses in Tang China Jinhua Jia Poetry and Animals Blurring the Boundaries with the Human Onno...

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...

March 2, 2018

2018 Women’s History Month: Featured Books

In honor of Women’s History Month, we’re featuring books centered on women and gender studies for the next  four weeks. Check-in each Monday to enter our book giveaway competition and to find out which title will be the “Book of...

March 1, 2018

More Than a Decade of Publishing on Feminism and Gender

It’s Throwback Thursday and the first day of Women’s History Month. Did you know that Columbia has been a leader in gender studies, queer studies, and feminist theory since the publication in the 1980s of now-classic works such as Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s Between Men and...

March 1, 2018

Critics, Coteries, and Pre-Raphaelite Celebrity (Introduction)

This week, our featured book is Critics, Coteries, and Pre-Raphaelite Celebrity, by Wendy Graham. Today we are happy to present you with the book’s introduction. Enter our book giveaway by Friday at 1 PM for a chance to win a free copy!