November 12, 2009

SALES!

We are offering discounts on more than 200 titles in philosophy, religion, social work, and science. Click on the links for more information on how to save on Columbia University Press titles, and when the sales end. Happy shopping!

November 11, 2009

The Taliban aren't so tribal

This month the Le Monde Diplomatique Web site has a fascinating podcast interview with Patrick Porter, author of Military Orientalism: Eastern War Through Western Eyes, about his recent article “Culture Wars in Afghanistan.” In the article and interview, Porter, who...

November 10, 2009

Isabella Rossellini joins the Talbots to discuss The New Yorker Theater

The New Yorker Theater and Other Scenes from a Life at the Movies by Toby Talbot was just reviewed in The East Hampton Star, which said the book “will certainly appeal to film buffs, to New Yorkers, and to celebrity...

November 10, 2009

A new look at the confinement of Japanese-Americans

In a recent feature on Rorotoko, Greg Robinson, author of A Tragedy of Democracy: Japanese Confinement of America, discusses his new book and how it presents the existence of Japanese internment camps in a more expansive light. Robinson’s new research...

November 9, 2009

Free Books! — Fall Office Cleanup Contest

CONTEST OVER. CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WINNERS. As you can imagine happens at a book publishing company, we’ve got quite a lot of book lovers working here. And they collect books in their offices — a lot of great books. We’re...

November 6, 2009

Is academic parlance at all capable of saying something meaningful about pain?

We began the week, with a post about Kristiaan Versluys’s interview with American Fiction Notes and now end it with his piece on the Washington Post book blog The Short Stack. Versluys, who is the author of Out of the...

November 5, 2009

Jewish Terrorism in Israel

The recent arrest of Yaakov Teitel for allegedly carrying out a series of domestic acts of terror in Israel is a reminder of the persistent existence of Jewish terrorism. The accusations against Teitel include placing a pipe bomb near Professor...

November 4, 2009

Mark C. Taylor on Field Notes from Elsewhere

In a recent essay on Rorotoko and an interview on Objet Petit A, Mark Taylor explains some of the personal, literary, and philosophical influences that shaped his new work Field Notes from Elsewhere: Reflections on Living and Dying. As Taylor...

November 3, 2009

Has Barack Obama met the hopes of the world?

Over the weekend, the Guardian’s blog Comment is Free asked various experts about Obama’s performance a year after being elected president. Contributors to the forum include Patricia Williams (on race), Robert Barro (on the economy), David Landau (on the Middle...

November 2, 2009

"The great September 11 novel has not been written yet and maybe it never will."

Last week, critic Mark Athitakis’s blog American Fiction Notes featured an interview with Kristiaan Versluys author of Out of the Blue: September 11 and the Novel. In the interview, Versluys discusses some of the writers included in his study, including...

October 30, 2009

Is anger the key? Dr. Henry Kellerman weighs in

In a series of posts for the Psychology Today blog, Dr. Henry Kellerman, author of Dictionary of Psychopathology, argues that while love may the world go ’round, anger is the key. Anger, he suggests results from our efforts manage disappointment...

October 29, 2009

Event: R. Glenn Hubbard and others on development in Africa

Later today, R. Glenn Hubbard and William Duggan, author of The Aid Trap: Hard Truths About Ending Poverty, will be joined with others in a community forum on African aid and development. The event will be on the campus of...