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...

September 24, 2014

Wine Fraud: Buyer Beware — A Post by Natalie Berkowitz

The following is a post by Natalie Berkowitz, author of The Winemaker’s Hand: Conversations on Talent, Technique, and Terroir Obsessed individuals with deep pockets bitten by the collecting bug willingly spend a fortune on rare treasures to display their affluence....

September 23, 2014

Interview with Rey Chow, author of "Not Like a Native Speaker"

“My book asks: can there be other ways of coming to terms with loss? Can loss be perceived, however painfully, as an alternative beginning to something different?”—Rey Chow The following is an interview with Rey Chow, author of Not Like...

September 23, 2014

New Book Tuesday! Herve This Returns with "Note-by-Note Cooking" and More New Books

Our weekly list of new books now available: Note-by-Note Cooking: The Future of Food Hervé This Love and Liberation: Autobiographical Writings of the Tibetan Buddhist Visionary Sera Khandro Sarah H. Jacoby Melancholy II: A Novel Jon Fosse Free Trade’s First...