October 18, 2017

A Different Trajectory

Read an excerpt from chapter 14 of TUNISIA: AN ARAB ANOMALY, by Safwan M. Masri, with a foreword by Lisa Anderson!

October 18, 2017

Columbia Giving Day

One Day. One Columbia. Real Impact.

October 17, 2017

Introducing Tunisia: An Arab Anomaly

Read an introductory excerpt from TUNISIA: AN ARAB ANOMALY, by Safwan M. Masri, with a foreword by Lisa Anderson!

October 17, 2017

New Book Tuesday: Darwin's Theory, Implicit Bias, Film Openings, and More!

Our weekly listing of new books now available!

October 10, 2017

New Book Tuesday: Inside Private Prisons and More!

Our weekly listing of new books now available!

October 6, 2017

Remembering Adam McKeown

Cemil Aydin, Timothy Nunan, and Dominic Sachsenmaier, current editors of the Columbia Studies in International and Global History series, remember Adam McKeown, one of the founders of the series.

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,...