November 16, 2011

James Powell: Science Denialism Is Not Free, Part III

This is the third and final installment of James Powell’s series of blog posts. (To read the first and second). James Powell is the author of The Inquisition of Climate Science. “Science denial and pseudoscience are not free. We embrace...

November 15, 2011

Stalking Nabokov, by Brian Boyd

This week we will be featuring Stalking Nabokov, by Brian Boyd. Here is an excerpt from the chapter A Centennial Toast. That seems to me the key to Nabokov. He was a maximalist: someone who appreciated, as much as anyone...

November 15, 2011

Columbia Journalism Review Books

A recent article in Publishers Weekly highlighted the launch of our new series Columbia Journalism Review Books, which coincides with the fiftieth anniversary of the Columbia Journalism Review. The series will be edited by Victor Navasky, Evan Cornog, Mike Hoyt,...

November 15, 2011

New Book Tuesday: Asia's Space Race

Asia’s Space Race: National Motivations, Regional Rivalries, and International Risks James Clay Moltz The Priority of Events: Deleuze’s Logic of Sense Sean Bowden Explorations into Arab Folk Literature Pierre Cachia Let the Right One In Anne Bilson Witchfinder General Ian...

November 11, 2011

Jacques Ranciere: "It is writing’s poverty that accounts for literature’s capacity for resistance."

Fittingly enough, we conclude on week-long feature on Jacques Ranciere’s Mute Speech with Ranciere’s concluding paragraphs: And yet, strangely, it is writing’s poverty that accounts for literature’s capacity for resistance. The weakness of the means at its disposal to measure...

November 11, 2011

Obesity, the Greek Crisis, and Trollope: A University Press Blog Roundup

Our occasional feature looking at noteworthy and interesting posts from university press blogs: Duke University Press offers free access to an article from George Papandreou, the recently resigned Greek Prime Minister, on strategies for recovery in the Eurozone. For the...

November 10, 2011

Udi Aloni on Israeli Apartheid

“A couple of years ago I approached my ardently Zionist mom, a woman who carried a weapon for the Jewish community of Jerusalem in 1948, and asked her a simple question: ‘Mom, is all this apartheid?’ With the sigh of...

November 9, 2011

Mute Speech: New Directions in Critical Theory

Mute Speech: Literature, Critical Theory, and Politics, by Jacques Ranciere, is part of the series New Directions in Critical Theory. Below is an excerpt from an interview with Amy Allen, the series editor: Q: What does New Directions in Critical...

November 9, 2011

Santiago Zabala on the Dangers of Analytic Philosophy

“Being is challenged in the university today by the hegemony of analytic philosophy.”—Santiago Zabala Santiago Zabala, most recently the co-author, with Gianni Vattimo, of Hermeneutic Communism, recently published an article in Purlieu entitled Being in the University: Philosophical Education or...

November 9, 2011

Columbia University Press Books on Display at Harvard Book Store

Thanks to Harvard Book Store for their great front window display of Columbia University Press books:

November 8, 2011

Mute Speech: Gabriel Rockhill on Why Jacques Ranciere Matters

In his introduction to Mute Speech: Literature, Critical Theory, and Politics, by Jacques Ranciere, Gabriel Rockhill enumerates some of the most important facets of Ranciere’s book. Rockhill writes: For the reader who agrees to try and shelve the doctrines of...

November 8, 2011

New Book Tuesday: The Novel After Theory, Best American Magazine Writing, and American Force

The Best American Magazine Writing 2011 Edited by Sid Holt for the American Society of Magazine Editors; With an Introduction by Jim Nelson The Novel After Theory Judith Ryan American Force: Dangers, Delusions, and Dilemmas in National Security Richard K....