March 3, 2016

Thursday Fiction Corner: Trees Without Wind by Li Rui, translated by John Balcom

For this week’s Thursday Fiction Corner, Russian Library editor Christine Dunbar muses on sound, names, and the ethical stakes of translation after having read TREES WITHOUT WIND, by Li Rui, translated by John Balcom.

March 3, 2016

David Helfand on Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century

In his book A Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age: Scientific Habits of Mind, David J. Helfand offers a series of ways to better understand scientific data. Developing these sets of tools has never been more important as individuals are...

March 3, 2016

James Davis on the Life and Work of Harlem Renaissance Writer Eric Walrond

An interview with James Davis author of “Eric Walrond: A Life in the Harlem Renaissance and the Transatlantic Caribbean”

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...