October 3, 2017

New Book Tuesday: Neither Ghost nor Machine, Birth of a New Earth, Hunting Girls, and More!

Our weekly listing of new books now available!

September 29, 2017

Trickster Tales and “True Crime”: An Interview with Christopher Rea and Bruce Rusk, translators of The Book of Swindles

An interview with BOOK OF SWINDLES translators Christopher Rea and Bruce Rusk

September 28, 2017

Thursday Fiction Corner: The Conflict between North and South Korea, on an Intimate Scale

Welcome to the Columbia University Press Thursday Fiction Corner! This week Ani Kodzhabasheva, a PhD candidate at Columbia University, reflects on Yi Mun-yol’s novel Meeting with My Brother and current events. Are you confused by the barrage of threats launched...

September 27, 2017

New Book Wednesday: The Philosophy of the Zhuangzi, Reassembling Motherhood, and More!

Our weekly listing of new books now available!

September 27, 2017

Read the Story “Pilfering Green Cloth by Pretending to Steal a Goose”

Read an excerpt from the BOOK OF SWINDLES, translated by Christopher Rea and Bruce Rusk

September 26, 2017

Low-Brow Culture and the Art of Deception in Ming China

If your first association with Ming China is delicate blue-and-white vases or the dreamy landscape paintings of Shen Zhou and others, The Book of Swindles will give you a very different idea of the period. This book reveals the seedy,...

September 19, 2017

New Book Tuesday: Hidden Atrocities, Charlie Munger, and More!

Our weekly listing of new books now available!

September 16, 2017

Why Only Art Can Save Us, Part II

Read an interview with Santiago Zabala, author of WHY ONLY ART CAN SAVE US: AESTHETICS AND THE ABSENCES OF EMERGENCY.

September 15, 2017

Why Only Art Can Save Us, Part I

Read an interview with Santiago Zabala, author of WHY ONLY ART CAN SAVE US: AESTHETICS AND THE ABSENCES OF EMERGENCY.

September 12, 2017

New Book Tuesday: Law and the Wealth of Nations, the Origins of Darwin's Evolution, and More!

Our weekly listing of new books now available!

September 8, 2017

A Media Roundup for Making Sense of the Alt-Right

Track the many ongoing discussions of the Alt-Right with a media roundup for MAKING SENSE OF THE ALT-RIGHT, by George Hawley.

September 7, 2017

The "Alt-Lite"

Read an excerpt from MAKING SENSE OF THE ALT-RIGHT, by George Hawley, on the “fellow travelers” of the Alt-Right movement, dubbed the “Alt-Lite,” and explains why making this distinction is crucial in coming to an accurate view of the Alt-Right!