September 13, 2022

Translating a Narcissist: The Italian Invert’s Companion

Nancy Erber

The Italian invert and I have a history together. I first came across his story under the title “Roman d’un inverti” in the 1980s in a hot and stuffy Paris library as I was scrolling through the Archives d’Anthropologie criminelle,...

September 8, 2022

Q&A: Giuseppe Caruso on The Botany of Beer

Pour a pint, and read about its incredible plant origins. Giuseppe Caruso’s The Botany of Beer: An Illustrated Guide to More Than 500 Plants Used in Brewing provides a lovely look into the raw materials that can spice up your...

September 6, 2022

Tommy, Helen, Frank, and Me

S. R. Gilbert

It was as inconceivable to Helen Lowe that she address her author as “Tommy” as it would be for me to open an email with “Cher Frank.” Without question, those writers whose work undergoes translation during their lifetimes must endure...

September 2, 2022

Announcing Our 2022-2023 Politics and International Affairs Catalog

Letter from the editors: We are proud to present this year’s selection of titles in political science, international relations, and political theory. Our American politics list is split between domestic politics and American foreign relations, but both lists consider issues...

September 1, 2022

National Translation Month 2022! A Journey Through Time and Place

Claire Brown

Welcome to our annual celebration of National Translation Month 2022! Ten years ago, two incredible women, author and journalist Loren Kleinman and poet and translator Claudia Serea, founded National Translation Month. Understanding language as an essential instrument for expressing the...

August 30, 2022

“Seoul, So Far Away” from Who Ate Up All the Shinga?

Park Wan-suh

“Suddenly a blinding flash shot from a building straight into my eyes. The light was unlike any I’d seen before. There was no fire, but it was more intense than any flame. I clung to my mother in fear. She...

August 24, 2022

Reflections on the Overturning of Roe v. Wade

An AUP RoundUP

Lindsey Bell

On June 24, 2022, the United States Supreme Court ruled to overturn Roe v. Wade (in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization), the landmark ruling that established the constitutional right to abortion in the United States in 1973. Abortion is now illegal in more than...

August 23, 2022

Translation and the Writing Classroom

Marie Satya McDonough

Although I am both a teacher and a translator, I do not teach translation. In fact, the person in my family who knows about translation, who has an actual degree in translation—my brother—works in a vineyard, while those of us who translate—my...

August 16, 2022

Q&A: Eva von Redecker and Lucy Duggan on Praxis and Revolution

The concept of revolution marks the ultimate horizon of modern politics. In Praxis and Revolution: A Theory of Social Transformation, Eva von Redecker reconsiders critical theory’s understanding of radical change in order to offer a bold account of how revolution...

August 9, 2022

Katłįà On the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples

World Indigenous Peoples Day, here in so-called Canada, is a celebration of resiliency, empowerment and the ever-present need to recognize the diversity of all Inuit, Metis and First Nations people living on the land of our ancestors who have been...

August 9, 2022

Writing Through Multiple Alienation

Chiara Cappelletto

Embodying Art has been an experiment in thinking on paper through self-alienation. Starting from Samuel Fleck’s draft translation of my Neuroestetica, published in Italian a decade ago, I had originally planned to update, expand, and substantially revamp the text while...

August 4, 2022

Announcing Our 2022-2023 Business and Economics Catalog

Letter from the Editor of Columbia Business School Publishing: As the founding publisher of the Columbia Business School Publishing imprint, I am honored to present our recent and forthcoming titles. We seek to bridge leading academic thought and professional practice...