February 8, 2022

Sidney Poitier and the New York Film Renaissance

By Richard Koszarski

I have been writing and researching the history of motion picture production in New York since the 1970s. Not the image of New York, but the way our local cultural and historical traditions interacted with broader industry trends to create...

February 4, 2022

Stephen Ross in Conversation with Robyn Massey on Chimpanzee Memoirs

Chimpanzees fascinate people for many reasons. The apes’ resemblance to humanity, as seen in their use of tools and their complex social lives, can awe us. But what moves someone to dedicate their lives to chimpanzees? In this conversation, Stephen...

February 2, 2022

Joseph L. Graves and Alan Goodman in Conversation with Olivia Treynor on Racism, Not Race

Joseph L. Graves and Alan Goodman’s new book, Racism, Not Race, breaks down crucial myths about race in a highly readable format. Dissecting everything from junk science on athletic ability to the real reasons different populations are more vulnerable to...

January 26, 2022

A Soviet Futurist in Beijing

Sergei Tretyakov’s Internationalist Aesthetics

Edward Tyerman

“You are travelling to Beijing. You must write travel notes. But not just as notes for yourself. No, they must have social significance.” These are the opening words of “Moscow—Beijing,” a 1925 travel sketch written by the Soviet writer Sergei...

January 7, 2022

Emerging Markets: Damned If They Do, Damned If They Don’t

Lorenzo Forni

The COVID-19 pandemic has already had large negative effects on emerging economies. When the crisis hit, most emerging economies were in relatively good shape from a macroeconomic point of view. Their central banks were successfully adopting inflation targeting, exchange rates...

January 7, 2022

Announcing the 2022 Columbia University Press Economics Catalog

Featuring Titles from Columbia Business School Publishing

Click on the down arrow above to download the PDF. 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 authors and...

January 7, 2022

Leah DeVun in Conversation with Olivia Treynor on The Shape of Sex

Does gender exist in the Garden of Eden? To a modern reader familiar with Christian belief, Adam and Eve may represent the very origin of binary bodies. Leah DeVun’s The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance...

January 6, 2022

Announcing the 2022 Columbia University Press History Catalog

Click on the down arrow above to download the PDF. Letter from the Editors: We are pleased to present the 2022 history catalog from Columbia University Press. We have a slate of new books that interrogate the lasting global legacies of...

January 6, 2022

Announcing the 2022 Columbia University Press Literary Studies Catalog

Click on the down arrow above to download the PDF. Letter from the Editors: Thank you for your interest in Columbia University Press’s new books in literary studies. Amid the many crises we continue to confront, reading and studying literature...

January 6, 2022

Ellen Jones in Conversation with Erín Moure on Multilingual Translation (Part 2)

Continuing the conversation with Literature in Motion author Ellen Jones and poet-translator Erín Moure, today’s installment explores the permeability of language. Interested in the fluid and the multilingual, Moure invites readers to join her in the joy of engaging with...

January 5, 2022

Ellen Jones in Conversation with Erín Moure on Multilingual Translation (Part 1)

In Literature in Motion: Translating Multilingualism Across the Americas, I think about how authors and translators can use the defamiliarizing and disruptive potential of literary multilingualism to resist conventions of form and dominant narratives about language and gender. One of the...

January 5, 2022

The Gender Problem in Economics: How Did We Get Here?

Ann Mari May, PhD

The American Economic Association and indeed the public at large are slowly awakening to the realization that the gender problem in the dismal science is profound and measurable. Women are underrepresented in all stages of the academic hierarchy. They receive...