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...

October 20, 2020

New Book Tuesday! Radio Empire, So You Want to Be a Neuroscientist? and Zhou History Unearthed

Our weekly list of new books is now available! From the Modernist Latitudes series Radio Empire The BBC’s Eastern Service and the Emergence of the Global Anglophone Novel Daniel Ryan Morse In Radio Empire, Daniel Ryan Morse demonstrates the significance...

October 19, 2020

Matthew Hart on Border Politics During the Pandemic Age

“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 confusion...

October 16, 2020

Book Reading: The Moments When I Am Not a Woman

By Dr. Leslea Hlusko

“The portraits in The Bearded Lady Project intentionally cause double takes, forcing the viewer to look, then look again. But their real power lies in how they require us to look inward and see that antediluvian ideas about who can...

October 16, 2020

Book Excerpt! On the Prowl (chapter 7)

“On the Prowl is a superb book, both enjoyable and instructive. I’m greatly impressed with the huge amount of data that Hallett and Harris have collected and presented in a most readable manner. The complex evolutionary history and relationships of the...

October 16, 2020

Announcing Our Fall 2020 Science Catalog

Letter from the editor: The year 2020 has been a difficult one. But each book I have the good fortune to publish is a beacon to a better understanding of our world and ourselves. Please allow me to highlight a...

October 14, 2020

New From Our Distributed Presses! Black Matters and Making Hong Kong China

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Fernwood Publishing Black Matters Afua Cooper and Wilfried Raussert Halifax’s Poet Laureate Afua Cooper and photographer Wilfried Raussert collaborate in this book of poems and photographs focused on everyday Black experiences....

October 14, 2020

Take a Tour of Our SVP Virtual Booth with Miranda Martin

Hello! Welcome to Columbia University Press’s virtual booth for this year’s meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. I’m Miranda Martin, the press’s science editor. We probably haven’t had an opportunity to meet in person yet, but I hope that...

October 14, 2020

Santiago Zabala responds to Ivelise Perniola review of Why Only Art Can Save Us

“Zabala’s extraordinary book strikes at the very heart of our spiritual predicament. From austerity politics to security measures, everything is legitimized with the axiom that we live in a state of emergency. The first task of the critique of ideology...

October 13, 2020

New Book Tuesday! Artificial Whiteness and Working for Respect

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Artificial Whiteness Politics and Ideology in Artificial Intelligence Yarden Katz Yarden Katz reveals the ideology embedded in the concept of artificial intelligence, contending that it both serves and mimics the logic...