December 2, 2015

Why Culture? — Brian Edwards, Author of "After the American Century"

Brian Edwards argues that an understanding of how culture is produced and consumed is crucial to understanding contemporary geopolitics.

December 1, 2015

RMB Inclusion into SDR: Hyperbole and Reality

Read a guest post on the IMF’s decision to accept RMB, the Chinese currency, into the currency basket that made up its Special Drawing Rights (SDR), by Ho-fung Hung, author of THE CHINA BOOM: WHY CHINA WILL NOT RULE THE WORLD.

December 1, 2015

Interview with Brian T. Edwards, author of “After the American Century"

Read an interview with Brian T. Edwards, author of “After the American Century”

December 1, 2015

New Book Tuesday: Chinese Law, Japanese Puppets, and More!

Our weekly listing of new titles now available.

November 30, 2015

Marx after Marx — An Interview with Harry Harootunian

“The role Marxism plays today is the same critical vocation and practice Marx imagined at the start. It is still the best critical strategy we have available to understanding … and grasping what must be done.”—Harry Harootunian The following is...

November 25, 2015

Forget the Turkey! Doughnuts!

A look at the early history of Thanksgiving as celebrated in New York City.

November 24, 2015

Choosing the Right Wine for Thanksgiving

The following advice on choosing the right wine to go with your turkey and stuffing is from Natalie Berkowitz, author of The Winemaker’s Hand: Conversations on Talent, Technique, and Terroir: The Pilgrims couldn’t have imagined how their fabled first Thanksgiving...

November 24, 2015

New Book Tuesday! New Literature from East Slope Publishing

Our weekly listing of new titles now available.

November 23, 2015

The Science of Cooking Your Thanksgiving Turkey via Herve This (and a Dishwasher!)

“Use the dishwasher! For the next holiday meal, I recommend that you prepare two turkeys. Cook one in the dishwasher, in a plastic bag, for several cycles of your machine.”—Herve This With Thanksgiving just a couple of days away, we...

November 23, 2015

Announcing the Columbia University Press Spring 2016 Catalog

We are proud to present the Columbia University Press Spring 2016 Catalog!

November 20, 2015

An interview with Sonja Arntzen

Read an interview with Sonja Arntzen, who cotranslated and coauthored the introduction to Sugawara no Takasue no Musume’s THE SARASHINA DIARY with Itō Moriyuki.

November 20, 2015

A Psychopathology of Art

Read an excerpt from the eleventh chapter of A HEDONIST MANIFESTO: THE POWER TO EXIST, by Michel Onfray!