February 7, 2013

Lawrence J. Friedman on Erich Fromm, D. T. Suzuki, and Zen Buddhism

Read an excerpt from Lawrence J. Friedman’s The Lives of Erich Fromm: Love’s Prophet.

February 6, 2013

Jonathan Soffer on the Many Legacies of Ed Koch

“It was clear to most New Yorkers that Koch had a deep abiding love for his city. That reputation, that started when he was in public office, was solidified because he stayed in the public eye. He would exert political...

February 6, 2013

Lawrence J. Friedman on Erich Fromm at the Frankfurt Institute

Read an excerpt from Lawrence J. Friedman’s The Lives of Erich Fromm: Love’s Prophet

February 6, 2013

Saikat Majumdar on Prose of the World

The following post is by Saikat Majumdar, author of Prose of the World: Modernism and the Banality of Empire. In the essay, Majumdar explains some of the central arguments and interventions of his book. In praise of the book, Rebecca...

February 5, 2013

Avidan Milevsky on the Harbaugh Sibling Rivalry

For those of you suffering from the prospect of six months without football, we give you one last look at the Super Bowl via Avidan Milevsky, Baltimore Raven fan and author of Sibling Relationships in Childhood and Adolescence: Predictors and...

February 5, 2013

Lawrence J. Friedman on Annis Freeman, Erich Fromm, and The Art of Loving

Read an excerpt from Lawrence J. Friedman’s The Lives of Erich Fromm: Love’s Prophet.

February 5, 2013

New Books This Week

Our weekly list of new titles now available: Hospice Social Work Dona J. Reese British Film Culture in the 1970s: The Boundaries of Pleasure (Now available in paper) Edited by Sue Harper and Justin Smith

February 4, 2013

Stanley Aronowitz on C. Wright Mills and Columbia University Press Author Events This Week

This week Stanley Aronowitz will be discussing his new book Taking It Big: C. Wright Mills and the Making of Political Intellectuals on Friday, February 8, Aronowitz will talk about the book at The Murphy Institute . Other events this...

February 4, 2013

James Jordan Retires as Director and President of Columbia University Press

He’ll still be with us for a few months but here is the official announcement regarding our director’s impending retirement: James D. Jordan today announced his retirement as President and Director of Columbia University Press, effective September 1, 2013. Jordan...

February 1, 2013

University Press Roundup

Our weekly roundup of the best posts from the blogs of academic publishers.

February 1, 2013

Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City — Jonathan Soffer and the Legacy of Ed Koch

In his book Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City, Jonathan Soffer offers a critique of Ed Koch’s complicated legacy for New York City. Soffer argues Ed Koch was instrument in leading New York City’s recovery from bankruptcy....

February 1, 2013

Mark C. Taylor interviews Mark Danielewski

Read part of a conversation between Mark C. Taylor, author of Rewiring the Real, and Mark Danielewski, author of House of Leaves.