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...

December 13, 2017

Wai Chee Dimock: Reading American literature outside the box

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...

December 12, 2017

New Book Tuesday: Spirals, Story of the Earth in 25 Rock, Enchanted Clock, and More!

Our weekly listing of new books now available: The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks Tales of Important Geological Puzzles and the People Who Solved Them Donald R. Prothero A Time to Stir Columbia ’68 Edited by Paul Cronin...

December 11, 2017

Announcing the Columbia University Press Spring 2018 Catalog

We are proud to announce our catalog of new books coming in Spring 2018! In her introductory letter, Press Director Jennifer Crewe lays out her hopes for the books in the catalog and lists a few highlights: Dear Readers, This...

December 7, 2017

Why I Work on Such a Frightening Topic

This week our featured book is Silencing the Bomb: One Scientist’s Quest to Halt Nuclear Testing by Lynn R. Sykes. Today, we are happy to present an excerpt from the book’s final chapter, in which Sykes explains why he chooses...

December 6, 2017

Ear to the Ground, Listening for Nuclear Blasts

This week, our featured book is Silencing the Bomb: One Scientist’s Quest to Halt Nuclear Testing, by Lynn R. Sykes. Today, we are happy to present a short excerpt from an interview that with Kevin Krajick at State of the...

December 5, 2017

New Book Tuesday: Eating Ethically, Fracking Debate, Merchant’s Tale, and More!

Our weekly listing of new books now available: Eating Ethically Religion and Science for a Better Diet Jonathan K. Crane Food of Sinful Demons Meat, Vegetarianism, and the Limits of Buddhism in Tibet Geoffrey Barstow Earth at Risk Natural Capital...