June 11, 2012

Book Giveaway! The Best Business Writing 2012

This week’s featured book is The Best Business Writing 2012, edited by Edited by Dean Starkman, Martha M. Hamilton, Ryan Chittum, and Felix Salmon. The book is part of our exciting new series from Columbia Journalism Review Books. Contributors include...

June 8, 2012

University Press Roundup

Our weekly roundup of the best articles from the academic publishing blogosphere.

June 7, 2012

Michael Marder and Gary Francione Debate Plant Ethics, Part Three

Michael Marder and Gary Francione finish their debate on the impact of “plant thinking” on dietary ethics.

June 7, 2012

Interview with Matthew Calarco, author of Zoographies

Continuing our week-long focus on debates within animal studies, we wanted to spotlight a recent interview with Matthew Calarco, author of Zoographies: The Question of the Animal from Heidegger to Derrida, that was posted on On Human-Nonhuman Relations. Calarco’s work,...

June 6, 2012

Michael Marder and Gary Francione Debate Plant Ethics, Part Two

Gary Francione and Michael Marder continue their debate around Marder’s op-eds for the New York Times and the notion of plant ethics. You can read part 1 of the debate here. Question: What would it mean for ethical eating if...

June 6, 2012

Columbia University Press Authors at dOCUMENTA 13

The eagerly anticipated art fair dOCUMENTA 13, held every five years, opens on June 9 in Kassel, Germany. dOCUMENTA has become one of the biggest art events in the world but also includes “other objects and experiments in the fields...

June 5, 2012

Michael Marder and Gary Francione Debate Plant Ethics

Michael Marder and Gary Francione debate the logical basis for plant ethics and the impact that plant ethics could have on the animal rights movement.

June 5, 2012

New Book Tuesday: Olivier Assayas, Shizi, and the Art of the New York Times

A Post-May Adolescence: Letter to Alice Debord Olivier Assayas Olivier Assayas Edited by Kent Jones Shizi: China’s First Syncretist Shizi; translated by Paul Fischer All the Art That’s Fit to Print (And Some That Wasn’t): Inside The New York Times...

June 4, 2012

What to Expect from Columbia University Press in Fall 2012!

BookExpo America (BEA), a flagship event of sorts for those in the book industry, begins tomorrow giving publishers the opportunity to showcase what they’ve got coming out in the Fall. With that in mind, here is our Fall 2012 catalog...

June 4, 2012

Animals and Plants: A Preview of the Debate Between Gary Francione and Michael Marder

This week we will be featuring a debate between Gary Francione, author of Animals as Persons: Essays on the Abolition of Animal Exploitation, The Animal Rights Debate: Abolition or Regulation?, and several other titles, and Michael Marder, author of the...

June 1, 2012

University Press Roundup

Our weekly roundup of the best articles from the academic publishing blogosphere.

June 1, 2012

Interview with Michael F. Armstrong, author of They Wished They Were Honest: The Knapp Commission and New York City Police Corruption

We conclude our feature on They Wished They Were Honest: The Knapp Commission and New York City Police Corruption, with an interview the book’s author Michael F. Armstrong. In the interview Michael F. Armstrong discusses the book, corruption in the...