January 9, 2014

Choice Selects 9 Columbia University Press Titles as Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013

Every year Choice editors single out for recognition the most significant print and electronic works reviewed in Choice during the previous calendar year. Appearing annually in Choice‘s January issue this list of publications reflects the best in scholarly titles. We...

January 8, 2014

Interview with Gaurav Desai, author of Commerce with the Universe: Africa, India, and the Afrasian Imagination

The following is an interview with Gaurav Desai, author of Commerce with the Universe: Africa, India, and the Afrasian Imagination: Question: The subtitle of your book refers to the “Afrasian” Imagination. Can you explain the term “Afrasian”? Gaurav Desai: My...

January 7, 2014

New Book Tuesday: Lenin, Russ Meyer, Worlds Without End, and More New Titles!

The following titles are now available: Factory of Strategy: Thirty-Three Lessons on Lenin Antonio Negri Worlds Without End: The Many Lives of the Multiverse Mary-Jane Rubenstein Continental Strangers: German Exile Cinema, 1933-1951 Gerd Gemünden Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! Dean DeFino...

January 6, 2014

C. T. Hsia, 1921-2013

We were very sad to learn of the death of legendary Chinese literary critic C. T. Hsia at the age of 92. Columbia University Press was fortunate to publish several of Hsia’s works including C. T. Hsia on Chinese Literature...

December 20, 2013

Interview with Nancy Warner, Coauthor of "This Place, These People"

The following is an interview with Nancy Warner whose photographs accompany text by David Stark in This Place, These People: Life and Shadow on the Great Plains. To view photographs and excerpts from the book click here, here, and here....

December 19, 2013

David Stark on Farming in the Great Plains from "This Place, These People"

In the following passages, which are accompanied by the photographs of Nancy Warner, David Stark from This Place, These People: Life and Shadow on the Great Plains look more closely at the changing practices of farming and their impact on...

December 19, 2013

VIDEO: Frederic Wehrey on "Sectarian Politics in the Gulf"

In the following video, Frederic Wehrey discusses his new book Sectarian Politics in the Gulf: From the Iraq War to the Arab Uprisings. Wehrey argues that sectarianism in the region has largely been the product of the institutional weaknesses of...

December 18, 2013

Aloys Store and Transfer — More Images from "This Place, These People"

Continuing our feature on This Place, These People: Life and Shadow on the Great Plains, photographs by Nancy Warner, text by David Stark, here are some images from Aloys Store and Transfer in Aloys, Nebraska. (Click here for more images...

December 18, 2013

Katerina Kolozova on the Real in Contemporary Philosophy

With Cut of the Real: Subjectivity in Poststructuralist Philosophy, by Katerina Kolozova, now available, we are reposting her essay on the idea of the real in contemporary philosophy: What Baudrillard called the perfect crime has become the malaise of the...

December 17, 2013

Words and Images from "This Place, These People"

The following are photographs by Nancy Warner from This Place, These People: Life and Shadow on the Great Plains. Warner’s photographs are juxtaposed with the voices of Nebraska farm people, recorded by sociologist David Stark: We wrapped a chain around...

December 17, 2013

New Book Tuesday: Cut of the Real, Beyond Sinology, The Devil's Advocates, and More New Titles

The following books are now available: Cut of the Real: Subjectivity in Poststructuralist Philosophy Katerina Kolozova Beyond Sinology: Chinese Writing and the Scripts of Culture Andrea Bachner Text to Tradition: The Naisadhīyacarita and Literary Community in South Asia Deven M....

December 16, 2013

Gary Francione on the Animal Abolition Movement

Gary Francione, author of Animals as Persons: Essays on the Abolition of Animal Exploitation was recently interviewed on Russia Today to discuss the animal abolition movement. In the interview argues that even though animals do not have the same cognitive...