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December 8, 2010

Winter Office Cleanup Contest — Free Books!

The Contest is now closed. Thanks to everyone for participating and congratulations to the winners. As you can imagine, as a book publishing company, we’ve got quite a lot of book lovers working here. And they collect books in their...

December 7, 2010

On the Anniversary of Pearl Harbor: A Post by Greg Robinson

The following is a post, published last year, is by Greg Robinson, author of A Tragedy of Democracy: Japanese Confinement in North America, now available in paper. December 7 remains, as Franklin Roosevelt predicted, a date that lives in infamy....

December 7, 2010

New Book Tuesday: Kristeva, Barthes, and the Dalai Lama

The following books are now available: Hatred and Forgiveness Julia Kristeva The Preparation of the Novel: Lecture Courses and Seminars at the Collège de France (1978-1979 and 1979-1980) Roland Barthes Inside the Red Box: North Korea’s Post-totalitarian Politics Patrick McEachern...

December 6, 2010

The Philosophy of David Foster Wallace: "Knock Yourself Out," an Essay by Matt Bucher

Knock Yourself Out Matt Bucher Dedicated followers of Wallace’s writing know Matt Bucher as the administrator of wallace-l, the David Foster Wallace listserv. He is the publisher of two books on Wallace’s work (Elegant Complexity: A Study of Infinite Jest...

December 6, 2010

Alexander C. Y. Huang wins the Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies

Congratulations to Alexander C. Y. Huang who recently won the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies for his book, Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries of Cultural Exchange. The committee’s citation for Huang’s book reads: Alexander C. Y. Huang’s...

December 3, 2010

Hillary L. Chute and Lynda Barry to discuss Graphic Women

Hillary L. Chute, author of the newly published Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics will be participating in a roundtable discussion on the art of the graphic novel this Sunday, December 5, 2010 at 2:30 PM at the Philoctetes...

December 3, 2010

Holiday Sale — Save 30% on All Columbia Titles!

From now until Christmas, we are offering 30% off all Columbia University Press titles. To save 30%, add the books to your shopping cart, and enter code CUP30 in the “Redeem Coupon” field at check out. Click on the “redeem...

December 3, 2010

My Life with the Taliban author on Wikileaks

One of the documents released by Wikileaks (reprinted in The Guardian) includes a US embassy cable regarding the views of Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef a former Taliban minister and author of My Life with the Taliban. Zaeef, who has tried...

December 2, 2010

David Foster Wallace: Brief Interviews with Philosophy Students, Part I

In conjunction with the publication of David Foster Wallace’s undergraduate thesis, Maureen Eckert, coeditor of Fate, Time, and Language, interviewed two contemporary philosophy students whose first exposure to the work of David Foster Wallace came through his philosophical work. These...

December 1, 2010

Daniel Rigney: The Matthew Effect as Social Spiral

The following is a post by Daniel Rigney, author of The Matthew Effect: How Advantage Begets Further Advantage. The “Matthew effect” is a term coined by the Columbia University sociologist Robert Merton in 1968 to describe a common pattern in...

November 30, 2010

David Foster Wallace as Philosopher

“I was just awfully good at technical philosophy, and it was the first thing I’d ever been really good at, and so everybody, including me, anticipated I’d make it a career. But it sort of emptied out for me somewhere...

November 30, 2010

New Book Tuesday

The following books are now available: Humans, Beasts, and Ghosts: Stories and Essays Qian Zhongshu The Shift: Israel-Palestine from Border Struggle to Ethnic Conflict Menachem Klein The Implied Spider: Politics and Theology in Myth (Updated with a New Preface) Wendy...

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