March 2, 2016

David J. Helfand on Surviving the Misinformation Age

David J. Helfand, author of “A Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age,” on the need for skepticism and logical analysis to grapple with the torrent of information coming at us.

March 1, 2016

New Book Tuesday: Business for the Digital Age, Kafka in Film, and More New Books!

The Digital Transformation Playbook: Rethink Your Business for the Digital Age David L. Rogers State of Nature, Stages of Society: Enlightenment Conjectural History and Modern Social Discourse Frank Palmeri The Winter Sun Shines In: A Life of Masaoka Shiki (Now...

March 1, 2016

An Interview with David J. Helfand, author of "A Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age"

David J. Helfand on the dangers of too much information.

February 29, 2016

The Story Behind "Spotlight" — Roy J. Harris on the Boston Globe's Pulitzer-Winning Story

Before Spotlight, the movie, won the Oscar for Best Picture, the Boston Globe won the Pulitzer for its remarkable investigative journalism. Below is the chapter “Epiphany in Boston: 2003: The Globe and the Church,” from Pulitzer’s Gold: A Century of...

February 26, 2016

Images from "How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?"

See works by graphic memoirists included in Tahneer Oksman’s new book.

February 25, 2016

Tahneer Oksman on Writing a Jewish Book

Tahneer Oksman explains the scholarly and personal origins behind her new book “‘How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?’: Women and Jewish American Identity in Contemporary Graphic Memoirs”

February 24, 2016

Columbia University Press at Columbia University

Each month we feature a new set of books by Columbia professors in a vitrine on the Columbia University campus: This month’s books include: The Wheel: Inventions and Reinventions Richard W. Bulliet Religion, Secularism, and Constitutional Democracy Edited by Jean...

February 24, 2016

Tahneer Oksman Recommends Recent Graphic Memoirs

Tahneer Oksman, author of “How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?”, on new graphic works by women.

February 23, 2016

An interview with Santiago Zabala

n n n n nnQuestion: Who is Ernst Tugendhat and why is he important?nnSantiago Zabala: Ernst Tugendhat is a Jewish philosopher, born in 1930 in the town of Brünn in what was then Czechoslovakia. After the rise of Nazism in...

February 23, 2016

An Interview with Tahneer Oksman, author of "How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?"

“What’s interesting about comics is that you have artists drawing versions of themselves over and over on the same page. You can actually see their serial selves, their past, present, and future self-portraits in relation to one another.”—Tahneer Oksman The...

February 23, 2016

New Book Tuesday: New Books by Lévi-Strauss, Vattimo, and More!

Our weekly listing of new titles now available.

February 22, 2016

Umberto Eco on Language and Lunacy and the Force of Falsity

We were very saddened to learn of the recent passing of noted linguist and novelist Umberto Eco. We were fortunate enough to have the opportunity to publish Serendipities: Language and Lunacy, one of Eco’s works, which The Atlantic called “Erudite,...