December 6, 2012

Mike Chasar and Jed Rasula on the Poetry Glut

“For me, the glut isn’t a glut so much as a fundamental condition of poetry in the long twentieth century … Realizing that means reassessing our histories of American poetry, the maps and guidebooks we produce about it, and the...

December 5, 2012

From The Best American Magazine Writing 2012: How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the OWS Protests by Matt Taibbi

“People want out of this fiendish system, rigged to inexorably circumvent every hope we have for a more balanced world.”—Matt Taibbi One of the more inspiring and effective relief efforts to emerge in the wake of Hurricane Sandy has been...

December 5, 2012

Whitney Strub — The Politics of Porn 2012 (Part 1)

“That the conservative attack on birth control failed miserably, and set the stage for some Democratic congressional coups, hardly means porn won’t return to the table again; in fact, with the diminishing returns on the homophobia that the Right has...

December 4, 2012

Best American Magazine Writing 2012 — John Jeremiah Sullivan on David Foster Wallace

“Here’s a thing that is hard to imagine: being so inventive a writer that when you die, the language is impoverished. That’s what Wallace’s suicide did, two and a half years ago. It wasn’t just a sad thing, it was...

December 4, 2012

New Book Tuesday: A New Title from Roland Barthes and More

Our weekly list of new titles now available: How to Live Together: Novelistic Simulations of Some Everyday Spaces Roland Barthes Kiku’s Prayer: A Novel Endō Shūsaku; Translated by Van C. Gessel Trees Without Wind: A Novel Li Rui; Translated by...

December 3, 2012

Author Events for the Week of December 3: Action Movies, Drinks, China, and More!

From Dublin to Los Angeles and from action movies to the future of China, Columbia University Press authors will be discussing their works. Here’s a look at the who, when, and where of author events this week. (For a full...

November 30, 2012

Ross Melnick and Toby Talbot to Discuss the Jewish Experience in Film

On Sunday, December 2, (1 p.m.– 5 p.m), Columbia University Press is co-sponsoring the event “Exhibitors, Distributors and Showmen” at the American Jewish Historical Society as part of their Culture Brokers series. The program will include two Columbia University Press...

November 30, 2012

Test Your Knowledge of Food Finances!

We conclude our week-long feature on The Secret Financial Life of Food: From Commodities Markets to Supermarkets, by Kara Newman, with a quiz that tests your knowledge of the finances food (Click here for the answers): 1. Where is the...

November 29, 2012

Kara Newman Interviewed by Zester Daily

Earlier this Fall, Kara Newman talked with Zester Daily about her new book The Secret Financial Life of Food: From Commodities Markets to Supermarkets. In the interview Newman explains commodities markets and futures trading and how it affects the price...

November 28, 2012

Kerry Malawista Discusses "Wearing My Tutu to Analysis" on The Psych Files

In a recent episode on the podcast The Psych Files, Kerry Malawista discussed her book Wearing My Tutu to Analysis and Other Stories: Learning Psychodynamic Concepts from Life (written with Anne J. Adelman and Catherine L Anderson). In particular she...

November 28, 2012

Trading Places and the Secret Financial Life of Food

It is hard not to consider the topic food commodities without thinking of Trading Places (see clip below), which Kara Newman references in her new book The Secret Financial Life of Food: From Commodities Markets to Supermarkets. In The Secret...

November 27, 2012

Why Civil Resistance Works wins 2013 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order

Congratulations to Erica Chenoweth and Maria Stephan, who have been awarded the 2013 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order for their work on Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict.