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June 16, 2011

Bloomsday — Barry McCrea on Family and Form in Ulysses

In In the Company of Strangers: Family and Narrative in Dickens, Conan Doyle, Joyce, and Proust, Barry McCrea shows how the reconception of family and kinship underlies the revolutionary experiments of the modernist novel. This is particularly true, as McCrea...

June 16, 2011

Bloomsday in Paris

The following post is by Keri Walsh, editor of The Letters of Sylvia Beach: “What do you do?” Joyce inquired. I told him about Shakespeare and Company. The name, and mine too, seemed to amuse him, and a charming smile...

June 15, 2011

Nicholas Rombes on the Face of Julia Kristeva

June 15, 2011

Sera Young on Craving Earth

Last week, Sera Young, author of Craving Earth: Understanding Pica–the Urge to Eat Clay, Starch, Ice, and Chalk was interviewed on Living Earth about the book. Below are some excerpts from the interview. You might also want to visit the...

June 14, 2011

New Book Tuesday: Environmental Lessons from New York City

Sustainability Management: Lessons from and for New York City, America, and the Planet Steven Cohen Zeami: Performance Notes (Now available in paper) Translated by Tom Hare Jewish Terrorism in Israel (Now available in paper) Ami Pedahzur and Arie Perliger

June 14, 2011

Columbia University Press Acquires Wallflower Press

We are pleased to announce the acquisition of Wallflower Press books. (For a listing of Wallflower books) Columbia University Press has acquired worldwide rights to publish nearly 170 backlist titles from UK publisher Wallflower Press and will continue to publish...

June 13, 2011

Rachel Brownstein on Jane Austen; The New York Time on Rachel Brownstein's "Why Jane Austen?"

“Contrary to the main current of popular opinion today, Jane Austen’s novels are not first of all and most importantly about pretty girls in long dresses waiting for love and marriage.” Yesterday’s New York Times Book Review included a review...

June 10, 2011

Weiner, Weiwei, and More from University Press Blogs

The following is a roundup of some excellent posts from our fellow university press blogs: Yale University Press interviews the husband-and-wife biologist team John and Colleen Marzluff, co-authors of Dog Days, Raven Nights. Marjorie Cohn asks if the assassination of...

June 9, 2011

Interview with Adam McKeown, author of Melancholy Order

“Migration control is the last bastion of open discrimination in the modern world.”—Adam McKeown The following is an interview with Adam McKeown, author of Melancholy Order: Asian Migration and the Globalization of Borders. The book is now available and paper...

June 9, 2011

Geoffrey Kabat on Cancer and Cellphones

The following post by Geoffrey Kabat, author of Hyping Health Risks: Environmental Hazards in Daily Life and the Science of Epidemiology discusses the recent World Health Organization’s report on cellphone use and its possible link to cancer. Kabat questions some...

June 8, 2011

Brent Stockwell: The National Institutes of Health and the Drug Discovery Crisis

Brent R. Stockwell is the author of The Quest for the Cure: The Science and Stories Behind the Next Generation of Medicines, and Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biological Sciences at Columbia University, and an Early Career Scientist of the...

June 7, 2011

New Book Tuesday: Why Jane Austen?

The following books are now available: Why Jane Austen? Rachel Brownstein Storming the World Stage: The Story of Lashkar-e-Taiba Stephen Tankel Contesting Citizenship: Irregular Migrants and New Frontiers of the Political Anne McNevin Cotton, Climate, and Camels in Early Islamic...

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