February 15, 2018

Title Management Before Modern Technology

                        Welcome to week two of CUP’s quasquicentennial celebration. Today we’re treating you to an inside look at title management–well at least how it worked in the past. Who remembers...

February 14, 2018

A LOVER’S WELCOME

This week, our featured book is Erotic Poems from the Sanskrit: An Anthology, edited and translated by R. Parthasarathy. Today we’re featuring some excerpts from the book–poems fit for happy lovers. Enjoy! A LOVER’S WELCOME She hung a broad festoon...

February 14, 2018

Wednesday Excerpt: Ethical Loneliness (An Introduction)

“Ethical Loneliness names and explores a dynamic of loneliness that forms the experience of being a citizen for many. It’s an essential frame for understanding feelings of abandonment.” Claudia Rankine, author of Citizen: An American Lyric Recently released in paperback, Ethical Loneliness: The...

February 13, 2018

Erotic Poems from the Sanskrit: An Introduction

This week, our featured book is Erotic Poems from the Sanskrit: An Anthology, edited and translated by R. Parthasarathy. Classical Sanskrit literature boasts an exquisite canon of poetry devoted to erotic love. Noted translator and scholar R. Parthasarathy curatesd a selection in...

February 13, 2018

New Book Tuesday! In Defense of Charisma, Colonizing Language, Politics Recovered and More!

Our weekly listing of new books is now available: In Defense of Charisma Vincent W. Lloyd Colonizing Language Cultural Production and Language Politics in Modern Japan and Korea Christina Yi Politics Recovered Realist Thought in Theory and Practice Edited by...

February 12, 2018

Book Giveaway! Erotic Poems from the Sanskrit: An Anthology

This week, our featured book is Erotic Poems from the Sanskrit: An Anthology, edited and translated by R. Parthasarathy. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book and its author on our blog as well as on our Twitter feed and our Facebook page. Enter our book...

February 9, 2018

Reference in the Age of Technology: The Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry Online

Yesterday we introduced you to a hefty product of the past. Today we’d like to tell you about the present. Modern technology has paved the way to dynamic databases like The Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry Online. Accessible anytime, anywhere,...

February 8, 2018

Introducing Linor Goralik’s Found Life

On Tuesday 02/13, Columbia University Press author Linor Goralik will appear at NYU’s Jordan Center to discuss Found Life, a collected volume in translation co-edited by Ainsley Morse, Maria Vassileva, and Maya Vinokour; this event marks the beginning of a...

February 8, 2018

Columbia University Press: A Quasquicentennial

Did you know that 2018 is CUP’s quasquicentennial? (Hint: the meaning of that word is in our new social media logo.) In honor of this great feat, we’re going to be treating you all to an inside look at CUP...

February 8, 2018

Free Fall: An Excerpt from Down the Up Staircase

This week, our featured book is Down the Up Staircase: Three Generations of a Harlem Family, by Bruce D. Haynes and Syma Solovitc. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book and its author on our blog as...

February 7, 2018

By the time King was shot, everyone in Harlem was black

This week, our featured book is Down the Up Staircase: Three Generations of a Harlem Family, by Bruce D. Haynes and Syma Solovitc. Today we are happy to present an excerpt from the book’s first chapter. Remember to enter our book giveaway by Friday...

February 6, 2018

New Book Tuesday! Album, Ethnic Avant-Garde, Nation Like All Others​ and More!

Our weekly listing of new books now available: Album Unpublished Correspondence and Texts Roland Barthes. Translated by Jody Gladding The Future of Mainline Protestantism in America Edited by James Hudnut-Beumler and Mark Silk The Return of Bipolarity in World Politics...