December 9, 2016

Thoughts on and an Excerpt from Fourteen Little Red Huts and Other Plays by Andrei Platonov

Adham Azab-Xu responds to Fourteen Little Red Huts and Other Plays by Andrei Platonov, edited by Robert Chandler and translated by Chandler, Jesse Irwin, and Susan Larsen. Also includes an excerpt.

December 8, 2016

An Excerpt from the main text of Strolls with Pushkin

Read an excerpt from Andrei Sinyavsky’s STROLLS WITH PUSHKIN.

December 8, 2016

Thursday Fiction Corner: Between Dog and Wolf in Translation

Sasha Sokolov’s BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF has appeared in English for the very first time, and so the idea of the “untranslatable” returns to the realm of translation mythology. Or does it?

December 7, 2016

Announcing the Columbia University Press Spring 2017 Catalog

We are proud to announce our Spring 2017 Catalog! We’ve got a great list of books coming in the spring season!

December 7, 2016

Excerpt from Catharine Theimer Nepomnyaschy's introduction to Andrei Sinyavsky's Strolls with Pushkin

An introduction to and excerpt from Andrei Sinyavsky’s STROLLS WITH PUSHKIN.

December 6, 2016

Excerpt from Sasha Sokolov's Between Dog and Wolf

Read an excerpt from the highly-anticipated translation of Sasha Sokolov’s BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF.

December 6, 2016

New Book Tuesday: David Foster Wallace's Balancing Books, Medicine in Early Modern Tibet, and More!

Our weekly listing of new books now available!

December 5, 2016

Interview with Alexander Boguslawski, Translator of Sasha Sokolov's Between Dog and Wolf

Interview with Alexander Boguslawski, translator of Sasha Sokolov’s BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF

December 2, 2016

University Press Roundup

Our weekly roundup of the best blog posts from around the world of academic publishing!

December 1, 2016

How I learned to love data visualization (again)

Jonathan Schwabish, author of BETTER PRESENTATIONS: A GUIDE FOR SCHOLARS, RESEARCHERS, AND WONKS, explains how he came to embrace the value of data visualization.

November 30, 2016

What the Election of President Trump May Mean for Mental Health Policy

Paul Gionfriddo, author of LOSING TIM: HOW OUR HEALTH AND EDUCATION SYSTEMS FAILED MY SON WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA, discusses how mental health policy will be affected by a Trump presidency.

November 29, 2016

New Book Tuesday: Marriage as a Fine Art, Endangered Economies, and More!

Our weekly listing of new books now available!