January 9, 2018

An Introduction to Rethinking Investment Incentives

This week, our featured book is Rethinking Investment Incentives: Trends and Policy Options, edited by Ana Teresa Tavares-Lehmann, Perrine Toledano, Lise Johnson, and Lisa Sachs. This video, by the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI), introduces the book and how it explores the...

January 8, 2018

Book Giveaway! Rethinking Investment: Incentives Trends and Policy Options

This week, our featured book is Rethinking Investment Incentives: Trends and Policy Options, edited by Ana Teresa Tavares-Lehmann, Perrine Toledano, Lise Johnson, and Lisa Sachs. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book and its author on...

January 5, 2018

Sibling Action: An Excerpt

Today, we’ll be launching Sibling Action: The Genealogical Structure of Modernity by Stefani Engelstein. We are happy to present an excerpt from the book’s introduction.  

January 4, 2018

2017 CUP Choice Outstanding Academic Titles

The following titles have received the Choice Outstanding Academic Title (2017) designation. Titles are selected for their excellence in presentation and scholarship, the significance of their contribution to the field, their originality and value as an essential treatment of their subject,...

January 2, 2018

New Books Tuesday: Another Person’s Prison, Transpacific Attachments, American Capitalism and more!

Our weekly listing of new books now available: Now in Paper! Another Person’s Poison A History of Food Allergy Matthew Smith Transpacific Attachments Sex Work, Media Networks, and Affective Histories of Chineseness Lily Wong American Capitalism New Histories Sven Beckert...

December 26, 2017

New Book Tuesday: Radiation Nation, Hungarian Far Right, From Vocal Poetry to Song, Speculative Taxidermy, and Fate of Ideas

Our weekly listing of new books now available: Radiation Nation Three Mile Island and the Political Transformation of the 1970s Natasha Zaretsky Speculative Taxidermy Natural History, Animal Surfaces, and Art in the Anthropocene Giovanni Aloi The Fate of Ideas Seductions,...

December 22, 2017

Why Marakulin and Glotov were friends: A Sisters of the Cross excerpt

“It was not because their duties brought them close together that Marakulin and Glotov were friends.” Today we are happy to present an excerpt, initially posted by LitHub, of Sisters of the Cross, by Alexei Remizov and translated by Roger Keys and...

December 21, 2017

Thursday Fiction Corner: Existentialism, the Russian Soul, and the Modern Metropolis

Ani Kodzhabasheva is a Ph.D. candidate at Columbia University. “Only in Piter [St. Petersburg] may a man really know himself—whether he is a real human being, a half-human, or a swine. If he suffers here, he is a human being.”...

December 20, 2017

St. Petersburg, Capital of the Nineteenth Century

“Burkov House is the whole of Petersburg.” Alexei Remizov The protagonist of Sisters of the Cross, Marakulin, falls on hard times and leaves his nice apartment in the Burkov House to move into a rented room three floors up. This...

December 19, 2017

New Book Tuesday: Facing the Abyss, The Essay Film After Fact and Fiction, Orhan Pamuk and the Good of World Literature, and South Korea at the Crossroads

Our weekly listing of new books now available: Facing the Abyss American Literature and Culture in the 1940s George Hutchinson The Essay Film After Fact and Fiction Nora M. Alter Orhan Pamuk and the Good of World Literature Gloria Fisk...

December 18, 2017

Book Giveaway! Sisters of the Cross

  “Sisters of the Cross is a tale set in Burkov’s boardinghouse—a microcosm of Petersburg and the whole of Russia—filled with minor civil servants, wronged women, and holy wanderers, accident-prone circus artistes set to conquer the heart of Europe, the indifferent...

December 13, 2017

A Twenty-First-Century-Platform

This week, our featured book is American Literature in the World An Anthology from Anne Bradstreet to Octavia Butler, edited by Wai Chee Dimock, with Jordan Brower, Edgar Garcia, Kyle Hutzler, and Nicholas Rinehart. Today we are happy to present...