March 24, 2016

Thursday Fiction Corner: The Blue Wolf by Inoue Yasushi, translated by Joshua Fogel

For this week’s Thursday Fiction Corner, Russian Library editor Christine Dunbar muses on the (unfair) expectations readers put on translations after having read THE BLUE WOLF, by Inoue Yasushi, translated by Joshua Fogel.

March 24, 2016

A Sort of Dessert

Read the afterword to EAT THIS BOOK: A CARNIVORE’S MANIFESTO, by Dominique Lestel, translated by Gary Steiner.

March 23, 2016

The Vegetarian’s Unacceptable Arrogance

Read an excerpt of a carnivore’s manifesto by French philosopher Dominique Lestel, in which he argues that the vegetarian adopts an attitude of unacceptable arrogance in refusing to eat meat.

March 22, 2016

A Sort of Apéritif

Read the introduction to EAT THIS BOOK: A CARNIVORE’S MANIFESTO, by Dominique Lestel, translated by Gary Steiner.

March 22, 2016

New Book Tuesday! Kosher Food in America, Fiction in the World

Our weekly listing of new titles now available.

March 17, 2016

We Are All Cannibals — Claude Levi-Strauss

“So varied are the modalities of cannibalism, so diverse its real or supposed functions, that we may come to doubt whether the notion of cannibalism as it is currently employed can be defined in a relatively precise manner. It dissolves...

March 15, 2016

Brawn in Civilization — A History of Virility

“For muscle is everywhere. It jumped over the walls of the stadium and the ropes of the ring a long time ago. It reigns absolute on screens large and small…. The claim on muscles has been democra­tized, the practice of...

March 15, 2016

New Book Tuesday: Dark Ecology, New York's Yiddish Theater, and More New Books!

Our weekly listing of new titles from Columbia University Press and our distributed presses.

March 14, 2016

Michael Marder on Trump Metaphysics

“Trump trumps metaphysics.”—Michael Marder Michael Marder, author of The Philosopher’s Plant among other books in plant studies, recently turned his attention to another kind of life form: Donald Trump. In Trump Metaphysics, a recent essay for the Los Angeles Review...

March 14, 2016

Book Giveaway! Win a Free Copy of "A History of Virility"

Man up! For the first half of this week, we will be featuring “A History of Virility,” edited by Alain Corbin et al.

March 11, 2016

Five Aftershocks in Japan: Five Years After the Fukushima Disaster

Today, in memory of the Fukushima disaster, marketing intern Kalle Mattila has delved into five aftershocks as described by Hideo Furukawa, author of a recent Columbia UP book: Horses, Horses in the End the Light Remains Pure. Hideo Furukawa is...

March 10, 2016

The American Prism

Read an excerpt from the first chapter of WHY AMERICA MISUNDERSTANDS THE WORLD: NATIONAL EXPERIENCE AND ROOTS OF MISPERCEPTION, by Paul Pillar.