August 17, 2010

Jonathan Soffer on Ed Koch's Effort to Fight Corruption

Yesterday’s New York Times blog, the City Room, quoted Jonathan Soffer, author of the forthcoming Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City, about Koch’s newly established organization New York Uprising. The group is dedicated to “to shame politicians...

August 16, 2010

Charli Carpenter on WikiLeaks

In a recent Foreign Policy article on the recent release by WikiLeaks of documents pertaining to the U.S. war in Afghanistan , Charli Carpenter, author of Forgetting Children Born of War: Setting the Human Rights Agenda in Bosnia and Beyond,...

August 13, 2010

Test Your Knowledge of Herve This's Kitchen Mysteries

From the past to the cutting edge. Earlier this week we tested readers on the history of food with a quiz based on Cheese, Pears, and History in a Proverb. Today we offer a quiz based on Herve This’s: Kitchen...

August 12, 2010

Richard Bulliet on the Mosque at Ground Zero

An article from the new web site, Capital, recently interviewed Richard Bulliet, author of The Case for Islamo-Christian Civilization, about the proposed Mosque at Ground Zero. Bulliet admits that when he first heard about the project he thought it might...

August 11, 2010

Cheese, Pears & History in a Proverb — A Quiz

“Do not let the peasant know how good cheese is with pears.”– an Italian proverb In Cheese, Pears, and History in a Proverb Massimo Montanari explores the background of this common Italian proverb still in use today. Along the way...

August 10, 2010

Are E-books Good for Poetry? A Post by Siobhan Phillips

The following post is by Siobhan Phillips, author of The Poetics of the Everyday: Creative Repetition in Modern American Verse. Last month, an AP story about digital publication briefly focused poetry-lovers’ general despair at the future on a specific new...

August 9, 2010

Christopher Davidson on Blackberry Censorship in the UAE

Christopher Davidson, whose book Dubai: The Vulnerability of Success was just reviewed in the New York Review of Books, recently contributed to the Index on Censorship on the UAE’s recent decision to ban Blackberry use. Davidson argues that the UAE’s...

August 6, 2010

August 14-15, 1947

In honor of the recent publication in paperback of Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar’s book The Long Partition and the Making of Modern South Asia, we re-post here an interview with the author on the 60th anniversary of the partition of the...

August 5, 2010

And the Winner Is……

Those are words we are hoping to hear soon as a number of Columbia University Press books have made it to the final rounds of award competitions and we are waiting to hear if we are the lucky winner. Yesterday...

August 4, 2010

Living with a Rising Giant

In a recent interview posted on the Northwestern University website, Living with the Dragon: How the American Public Views the Rise of China co-author Benjamin I. Page, a professor at Northwestern, explains how Americans perceive the rise of China as...

August 3, 2010

Feminist Review discusses Forgetting Children Born of War

In a recent post the Feminist Review discusses R. Charli Carpenter’s new book, Forgetting Children Born of War. The book explores why the human rights community does so little to protect children born as a result of rape during war....

August 2, 2010

Abdul Salam Zaeef Removed from U.N. Sanctions List

Abdul Salam Zaeef, a former Taliban ambassador to Pakistan and author of the autobiography My Life with the Taliban, was one of five members of the Taliban recently removed from the United Nations Security Council’s sanctions list. According to an...