October 2, 2014

A Doctor, a Rabbi and a Chicken — Dennis Rosen

Dennis Rosen, author of “Vital Conversations: Improving Communication Between Doctors and Patients,” explains how an encounter between a patient, a rabbi, and a chicken shaped his approach to medicine and treating patients.

October 2, 2014

Thursday Fiction Corner: Interview with Adda Djorup, a Contributor to Best European Fiction 2015

Read an interview with Danish writer Adda Djorup, a contributor to Dalkey Archive’s just-published “Best European Fiction 2015”

October 1, 2014

Staying Out of the Hospital — Dennis Rosen

The following post is by Dennis Rosen, author of Vital Conversations: Improving Communication Between Doctors and Patients Hopefully, all of you will live long and healthy lives that will end peacefully in your sleep sometime after seeing your youngest great-grandchild...

October 1, 2014

October Author Events: Joseph Stiglitz, Herve This, and More!

Check out our latest and greatest author events!

September 30, 2014

To the Point: A New E-book Series from Columbia University Press

                  Columbia University Press is proud to announce the launch of To the Point an exciting new e-book series that extends the scholarship of our authors for a growing global and digital audience. We present standalone chapters from the press’s...

September 30, 2014

Interview with Dennis Rosen, author of "Vital Conversations"

The following is an interview with Dennis Rosen, author of Vital Conversations: Improving Communication Between Doctors and Patients: Question: So what is Vital Conversations about? Dennis Rosen: Vital Conversations is about why good communication between doctors and patients is so...

September 30, 2014

New Book Tuesday: Buffett, Best European Fiction, and More New Books!

Our weekly listing of new titles: Berkshire Beyond Buffett: The Enduring Value of Values Lawrence A. Cunningham Schools for Conflict or for Peace in Afghanistan Dana Burde After the Silents: Hollywood Film Music in the Early Sound Era, 1926-1934 Michael...

September 29, 2014

Flying Dinosaurs Challenge

Take a challenge on flying dinosaurs written specially for the CUP blog by John Pickrell, author of FLYING DINOSAURS!

September 26, 2014

From Radio to Film … And Beyond — Rey Chow

“Long before I came to study film academically, these visits [to my mother’s film studios] had opened my eyes to the utterly fragmentary making of the artwork in the age of technical reproducibility.”—Rey Chow We conclude our week-long feature on...

September 25, 2014

Rey Chow — The Sounds and Scripts of a Hong Kong Childhood

In “The Sounds and Scripts of a Hong Kong Childhood,” the final chapter of Not Like a Native Speaker: On Languaging as a Postcolonial Experience, Rey Chow explores elements of her own upbringing in colonial Hong Kong. In the following...

September 25, 2014

Thursday Fiction Corner: Interview with Hadrien Laroche, author of "Orphans"

“My books are humorous. You can hear the laughter that accompanies every tragic moment!” — Hadrien Laroche Earlier this year, we published an interview with Hadrien Laroche, author of Orphans. Now that the book is available for sale, we are...

September 24, 2014

Rey Chow on Derrida and the French Language

In her new book Not Like a Native Speaker: On Languaging as a Postcolonial Experience, Rey Chow examines misgivings about the inequality of the encounters between European and non-European languages in the postcolonial world. In the following passage, Chow considers...