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...

August 3, 2022

Daniel Graham in Conversation with Lindsey Bell About An Internet in Your Head

The metaphor of the brain as a computer has defined the neuroscience field for much of the modern era. Whether we realize it or not, we think of our brains as computers. But as neuroscientists increasingly reevaluate their assumptions about...

August 2, 2022

Announcing Our 2022-2023 Sociology Catalog

Letter from the editor: It is with great pleasure that, on behalf of my colleagues at Columbia University Press, I introduce this year’s sociology catalog. This was yet another year of challenges in the world, but we remain steadfast in...

August 1, 2022

Women in Translation Month 2022: A Philosophical Exploration

Welcome to Women in Translation Month 2022! Eight years ago, blogger and academic Meytal Radzinski took a critical look at the publishing landscape and noticed that the world of translated literature was heavily male-dominated. Works by women authors made up less than...

June 24, 2022

A Guide to the Russo-Ukrainian Conflict

An AUP RoundUP

Claire Brown

With the Russian invasion of Ukraine reaching its fourth month, I have been wondering why coverage of the conflict has been decreasing. Have we forgotten? Who is responsible for maintaining awareness of global conflicts and catastrophes? What role does the...

June 19, 2022

Seneca Village and Fair Compensation

What the Archives Reveal

Sara Cedar Miller

“This book is incomplete without finding those documents. They have to exist!” This became my constant lament to the guardians of New York City’s archives and especially to the ever-patient and all-knowing archivist Ken Cobb, the assistant commissioner of the...

June 17, 2022

Robert G. O’Meally in Conversation with Justin Liang About Antagonistic Cooperation

From the collages of Romare Bearden and the paintings of Jean-Michel Basquiat, to the fiction of Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison, to the music of Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, in Antagonistic Cooperation: Jazz, Collage, Fiction, and the Shaping of...

June 15, 2022

The Role of Narrative and Narrative Activism in Social Movements

Michele Moody-Adams

It has often been said that “those who tell the stories rule the world.” Versions of this claim can be found in sources as varied as Plato’s dialogues, traditional Hopi wisdom, and a recent work such as Narrative Economics (2019)...

June 9, 2022

A Voice from the Past

One Nineteenth-Century Queer Autobiography

William A. Peniston

Before the twentieth century, it is rare to find autobiographical writings by men who were attracted to other men. In France, only eight have been identified for the era between 1845 and 1905. All were originally published in French as...