November 9, 2020

Q&A: Joanne Raymond on Her Career in Academic Publishing

It’s University Press Week 2020, and today’s theme is New Voices. As part of the campaign, Book Culture interviewed CUP’s own assistant publicist Joanne Raymond about her career growth in academic publishing. Read the Q&A below to learn about her...

November 9, 2020

Announcing Our 2020 Religion Catalog

Letter from the editor: With both sadness to miss seeing so many friends in person and great pleasure to share so many exciting new books, I present the Columbia University Press religion catalog for 2020. These titles, which span subjects...

November 4, 2020

New From Our Distributed Presses! Work-based Learning as a Pathway to Competence-based Education, Shintō in the History and Culture of Japan and Land-Water-Sky / Ndè-Tı-Yat’a

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Association for Asian Studies From the Key Issues in Asian Studies series Shintō in the History and Culture of Japan Ronald S. Green This book is a concise overview of Shintō through...

November 3, 2020

New Book Tuesday! What Would Nature Do?, Aging Behind Prison Walls, Critique on the Couch and More!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! What Would Nature Do? A Guide for Our Uncertain Times Ruth DeFries Ruth DeFries argues that a surprising set of time-tested strategies from the natural world can help humanity weather these...

October 28, 2020

New From Our Distributed Presses! Take Back The Fight, A Spy for an Unknown Country and More!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Fernwood Publishing Take Back The Fight Organizing Feminism for the Digital Age Nora Loreto In Take Back The Fight, Nora Loreto examines the state of modern feminism in Canada and argues...

October 28, 2020

Announcing Our 2020-2021 Social Work Catalog

Letter from the editor: I am pleased to share the 2020/2021 Columbia University Press social work catalog. If I were to pick a theme tying these books together, it would be “social work with the overlooked.” Social workers often serve...

October 27, 2020

New Book Tuesday! Plastic Free and Super Polluters, The Contemporary Superhero Film

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Plastic Free The Inspiring Story of a Global Environmental Movement and Why It Matters Rebecca Prince-Ruiz and Joanna Atherfold Finn This book explores how one of the world’s leading environmental campaigns...

October 25, 2020

Video: Matthew Hart Introduces Extraterritorial

 “A fascinating book about why the idea of being extraterritorial has come to preoccupy writers and artists and a rejoinder to celebrations of the cosmopolitan intellect or the ostensible age of postnational globalization. Hart highlights the aesthetic appeal and...

October 24, 2020

Video: Eric Bulson Introduces Ulysses by Numbers

 “Numbers in literature often have magical or secret meanings, but this remarkable book also shows us other, quite startling modes of literary counting, giving us the pleasure we find only in the best critical readings: we are surprised and...

October 23, 2020

Wanting Everything: Tactics, Rights, and Queer/Feminist Care

Jill Richards in conversation with Sangina Patnaik, and Kelly Mee Rich

“The Fury Archives is a tour-de-force study of modernist women’s struggles for citizenship and human rights across transnational geographies. Richards reminds us of the variegated sites and everydayness of politics—from the sphere of reproductive labor to the quotidian committee meeting—and...

October 22, 2020

Take a Tour of Our MSA Virtual Exhibit with Philip Leventhal

Hi, I am Philip Leventhal, editor for literary studies at Columbia University Press, and I would like to welcome you to our Modernist Studies Association virtual exhibit. With each month that the COVID pandemic continues, we miss out on another...

October 21, 2020

New From Columbia Books on Architecture and the City! Paths to Prison

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Columbia Books on Architecture and the City Paths to Prison On the Architectures of Carcerality Edited by Isabelle Kirkham-Lewitt The collected essays in this book implicate architecture in the more longstanding...