March 12, 2014

Does Multiverse Theory Bring Theology Into Science? An interview with Mary-Jane Rubenstein

Read an interview with Mary-Jane Rubenstein in Religion Dispatches Magazine

March 11, 2014

Philosophy in Film, Between Science and Opinion

Continuing our week-long feature of Paul W. Kahn’s Finding Ourselves at the Movies, we present today an excerpt from the opening chapter of the book, titled “Philosophy, Democracy, and the Turn to Film.” In it, Kahn grapples with the idea...

March 11, 2014

New Book Tuesday: Winnebago Nation, Video Revolutions, Alain Robbe-Grillet and More New Titles!

Our weekly list of new titles now available: Winnebago Nation: The RV in American Culture James B. Twitchell Video Revolutions: On the History of a Medium Michael Z. Newman New Tunisian Cinema: Allegories of Resistance Robert Lang Asian and Feminist...

March 10, 2014

Will Putin Look to Annex More Territory? Why the Crimea Crisis Is Not about a Greater Russia Project

In a recent post for The Washington Post‘s blog The Monkey Cage, Stephen M. Saideman and R. William Ayres draw on arguments and themes in their book For Kin or Country: Xenophobia, Nationalism, and War to examine the situation in...

March 7, 2014

University Press Roundup

And we’re back! Welcome to our weekly roundup of the best articles from the blogs of academic publishers! As always, if you particularly enjoy something or think that we missed an important post, please let us know in the comments....

March 7, 2014

Images from Recovering Place by Mark C. Taylor

We conclude our week-long focus on Recovering Place: Reflections on Stone Hill, by Mark C. Taylor by featuring some of the book’s stunning photographs along with excerpts from the book. Divided into short chapters focusing on a specific theme or...

March 6, 2014

Designing Mark C. Taylor's "Recovering Place"

The following post is by Lisa Hamm, a senior designer at Columbia University Press, who worked with Mark C. Taylor on his new book Recovering Place: Reflections on Stone Hill: I received an e-mail from Mark Taylor asking if we...

March 6, 2014

William Gass

Now that we are distributing Dalkey Archive Press, we are familiarizing ourselves or reviving our admiration for a variety of the authors on their list. One of these writers is William Gass, whose Willie Masters’ Lonesome Wife is now available...

March 5, 2014

Wendy Lochner on Mark C. Taylor

The following post is by Wendy Lochner, who is Mark Taylor’s editor at Columbia University Press: I first worked with Mark Taylor on his book Field Notes from Elsewhere, his memoir describing his journey back from near-death over the course...

March 5, 2014

India's Etiquette Police — A Post by Peter Heehs

“Should a historian or biographer writing about a religion or religious figure follow the protocol of the temple or of the university?”—Peter Heehs The following post is by Peter Heehs, author of The Lives of Sri Aurobindo: In the beginning...

March 4, 2014

Mark Taylor on Recovering Place

“Paradoxically, the more pervasive and invasive Google Earth, GPS and customized apps become, the less we know where we are. And when we don’t know where we are, we don’t know who we are.”—Mark Taylor The following post is by...

March 4, 2014

New Book Tuesday: Derrida/Searle, Survivors of Slavery, Hitchcock, the Homoerotics of Orientalism, and More New Books!

The following books are now available: Derrida/Searle: Deconstruction and Ordinary Language Raoul Moati Survivors of Slavery: Modern-Day Slave Narratives Laura T. Murphy Must We Kill the Thing We Love?: Emersonian Perfectionism and the Films of Alfred Hitchcock William Rothman The...