February 3, 2015

What We Talk About When We Talk About Academic Freedom

Read an excerpt from Akeel Bilgrami and Jonathan Cole’s introduction to WHO’S AFRAID OF ACADEMIC FREEDOM?

February 3, 2015

New Book Tuesday! 2 Sexes, Niles Eldredge, Bollywood and More New Books!

There Are Two Sexes: Essays in Feminology Antoinette Fouque; Translated by David Macey and Catherine Porter Eternal Ephemera: Adaptation and the Origin of Species from the Nineteenth Century Through Punctuated Equilibria and Beyond Niles Eldredge Losing Control?: Sovereignty in the...

February 3, 2015

Choice Outstanding Academic Titles!

Check out the Columbia University Press books and those from our distributed presses that were recently named as Choice Outstanding Academic Titles!

January 30, 2015

University Press Roundup

Our weekly links roundup of the best blog posts from around the world of academic publishing!

January 30, 2015

The Fate of Black and Latino Politicians in New York City — Frederick Douglass Opie

Frederick Douglass Opie on the history and future of Black and Latino politicians in New York City.

January 29, 2015

The Role of Black and Latino Students in the 1968 Takeover of Columbia University — Frederick Douglass Opie

Frederick Douglass Opie on how Black and Latino students and student organizations worked with the Harlem community during the 1968 protests at Columbia.

January 28, 2015

Newly Elected Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on the Future Europe Deserves

Read “The Destruction of Greece as a Model for All of Europe: Is This the Future That Europe Deserves?,” newly elected Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipris’s foreword to WHAT DOES EUROPE WANT, by Slavoj Žižek and Srecko Horvat.

January 28, 2015

Interview with Frederick Douglass Opie, author of "Upsetting the Apple Cart"

Read an interview with Frederick Douglass Opie about the history of Black-Latino relations in New York City.

January 27, 2015

Food, Unions, and Black-Latino Coalitions in New York City — Frederick Douglass Opie

One of the earliest coalitions among Blacks and Latinos in New York City was among hospital workers at Montefiore hospital in the Bronx. In the following excerpt from Upsetting the Apple Cart: Black-Latino Coalitions in New York City from Protest...

January 27, 2015

New Book Tuesday: Eric Walrond, The Reagan Era, Spirals, Cold War Modernists, and More New Books!

New books this week include a biography of Harlem Renaissance writer Eric Walrond; A look back at the lows and highs of the Reagan era; and an elegant analysis of spirals in 20th century literature and art.

January 23, 2015

Read Excerpts from the Diaries of Hollywood Legend Charles Brackett

Read excerpts from “It’s the Pictures That Got Small: Charles Brackett on Billy Wilder and Hollywood’s Golden Age”

January 23, 2015

University Press Roundup

Our weekly links roundup of the best blog posts from around the world of academic publishing!