December 8, 2020

Q&A: Ruth DeFries in Conversation with Bill McKibben on What Would Nature Do?

“DeFries is an excellent writer, using elegant storytelling to offer a hopeful delineation of pathways to a sustainable future. She builds on evolutionary history, the theory of complex adaptive systems, and examples of the emergence of cooperation in biological systems,...

December 8, 2020

New Book Tuesday! Vineland Reread, Research Exposed, and More!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! From the Rereadings series Vineland Reread Peter Coviello Vineland is hardly anyone’s favorite Thomas Pynchon novel. However, for Peter Coviello, the oft-overlooked book opens up new ways of thinking about Pynchon’s writing...

December 7, 2020

Take a Tour of Our AGU Virtual Exhibit Booth with Miranda Martin

The Columbia University Press virtual booth for the American Geophysical Union’s 2020 Fall Meeting is now open! I’m Miranda Martin, the press’s science editor. We may have met at previous events; if not, I hope to have the opportunity to...

December 7, 2020

Three Questions That Make One

By Bashir Bashir and Leila Farsakh

“Drawing on philosophy, politics, poetry, psychoanalysis, and history, and extending from North Africa and the Mediterranean to Europe and North America, this powerful book poses the Arab and Jewish questions as inextricable, intimate, and hybrid forces that shape our desires...

December 5, 2020

Video: Michael Alexander on the Origins of Making Peace with the Universe

 “What happens when worlds fall apart? It’s a question that so many of us have asked ourselves in times of crisis. The marvel of Michael Scott Alexander’s book is that he has transformed his own search into a discovery...

December 4, 2020

Michael Scott Alexander on Making Peace with the Universe

“A brilliant exploration of religious and spiritual experiences as they relate to the ability to heal the mind and promote psychological health. A missing piece of the puzzle of how religion intersects with psychological wellbeing.” ~Andrew Newberg, author of Neurotheology:...

December 3, 2020

The Op-Ed in an Evangelical Age

By L. Benjamin Rolsky

“Rise and Fall should garner a wide and varied audience, and it appears intentionally so. It is self-consciously and transparently situated, adeptly self-described in relation to a number of subfields, scholars, and paradigmatic shifts.” ~CARA BURNIDGE, Society for U.S. Intellectual History...

December 2, 2020

Video: Introducing Ms. Donna Haskins and Take Back What the Devil Stole

 “Like Karen McCarthy Brown’s Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn, this study of an impossibly ordinary life grabs you and refuses to let go, even as it offers new insights into a hidden spiritual world.” Stephen Prothero, author of Why Liberals...

December 2, 2020

New From Fernwood Publishing! Indigenous Women’s Theatre in Canada

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Fernwood Publishing Indigenous Women’s Theatre in Canada A Mechanism of Decolonization Sarah MacKenzie Closely analyzing dramatic texts by Monique Mojica, Marie Clements, and Yvette Nolan, Sarah MacKenzie explores representations of gendered...

December 1, 2020

New Book Tuesday! The Terroir of Whiskey, Pleasure in Profit and More!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! From the Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History series The Terroir of Whiskey A Distiller’s Journey Into the Flavor of Place Rob Arnold In this book, the...

December 1, 2020

The Environment as an Ethical Idea

By Anna M. Gade

“Anna M. Gade places her arguments within a rich exploration of historical and modern theoretical approaches to the environment and environmentalism. This book is theoretically sophisticated, lively, and interesting.” ~Marion Katz, author of Women in the Mosque: A History of Legal...

November 29, 2020

Take a Tour of Our AAR Virtual Exhibit with Wendy Lochner

Hi! I’m Wendy Lochner, the religion editor at Columbia University Press. Since the coronavirus pandemic has canceled fall conferences—SBL/AAR included—we are mounting virtual book exhibits on our blog to accompany our virtual booth. I will miss seeing so many friends...