May 4, 2016

The Future of Spiritual Practice

Read “The Future of Spiritual Practice,” an article crossposted from One None Gets Some, the blog of Corinna Nicolaou.

May 3, 2016

New Book Tuesday: Laruelle, The Other Catholics, Auge, Hunting Girls, and More New Books!

Theory of Identities François Laruelle; Translated by Alyosha Edlebi The Other Catholics: Remaking America’s Largest Religion Julie Byrne Everyone Dies Young: Time Without Age Marc Augé. Translated by Jody Gladding Hunting Girls: Sexual Violence from The Hunger Games to Campus...

May 3, 2016

Corinna Nicolaou on Christianity

Corinna Nicolaou lays out her goals for A NONE’S STORY and takes a close look at Christianity in this excerpt.

April 29, 2016

What Can Poetry Do?

Read excerpts from The Chinese University Press’s newest International Poetry Nights in Hong Kong anthology: POETRY AND CONFLICT.

April 29, 2016

The Plays of Gao Xingjian

A look at the plays of Nobel Prize winner Gao Xingjian, available through Chinese University Press.

April 28, 2016

An Overview of the Inaugural Russian Library Titles

An Overview of the Inaugural Russian Library Titles: Fourteen Little Red Huts and Other Plays, Strolls with Pushkin, and Between Dog and Wolf.

April 28, 2016

Minae Mizumura and Rebecca Walkowitz on World Literature and the Dominance of English

Two critical takes on how translation and the dominance of English is shaping contemporary fiction.

April 27, 2016

When the Incident Occurred

Watch Li Ang, her translators, and Columbia UP Director Jennifer Crewe discuss THE LOST GARDEN, and then read “When the Incident Occurred,” an excerpt from the novel.

April 27, 2016

The Disappearance of M

Read “The Disappearance of M,” the first story of SLOW BOAT TO CHINA AND OTHER STORIES, Ng Kim Chew’s inventive collection of short fiction, translated by Carlos Rojas.

April 26, 2016

The Problem with History

Read an excerpt on the darker side of Japanese history from Hideo Furukawa’s HORSES, HORSES, IN THE END THE LIGHT REMAINS PURE, translated by Doug Slaymaker with Akiko Takenaka.

April 26, 2016

The Complexity and Individuality of Contemporary Chinese Experiences and Perspectives

Read “The Apprentice,” excerpted from Zhu Wen’s THE MATCHMAKER, THE APPRENTICE, AND THE FOOTBALL FAN, as well as an interview with Julia Lovell, the book’s translator.

April 26, 2016

New Book Tuesday: The Sierra Club, Plots, The Red Guard, and More!

Our weekly listing of new titles now available.