June 2, 2008

Report from Book Expo America

From Meredith Howard, director of publicity at Columbia University Press: Well, the doors have closed on Book Expo America 2008 in Los Angeles, and as always it was a great experience reaffirming everyone’s commitment to publishing, writing, and selling great...

May 30, 2008

Books, Videos, and Wii: CUP in LA and a Report from our BEA Correspondent

BOOKS Like much of the publishing world, Columbia University Press is in Los Angeles for the annual Book Expo America (BEA). At the expo, we’ll be promoting some of our forthcoming Fall titles (stay tuned for more information in the...

May 29, 2008

Last Days of the White Sale.

Please forgive our last-minute shilling, but there’s still time to take advantage of great savings during Columbia University Press’s White Sale, which ends this weekend. Save up to 80% on hundreds of titles in all subjects. *Please note all sales...

May 28, 2008

Donald Keene: Review in Bookforum and Meeting Greta Garbo!

We were doubly fortunate yesterday to both receive our new issue of the always excellent Bookforum, which is again chock-full of interesting articles and reviews and is fully accessible online, and to find Roland Kelts’s glowing review of Donald Keene’s...

May 27, 2008

Principles Do Pay; Wanted: A Thomas Aquinas of the business world

This post is by Devin Stewart and was originally posted on Fairer Globalization, a blog devoted to reflections on articles and events related to the Carnegie Council’s online magazine Policyinnovations.org. Companies can’t succeed in a society that fails. That expression...

May 23, 2008

Memorial Day Post: An Interview with Michael Sledge, author of Soldier Dead

This weekend we celebrate Memorial Day, the annual holiday to remember United States soldiers who have died in combat. In his book, Soldier Dead: How We Recover, Identify, Bury, and Honor Our Military Fallen, Michael Sledge explores what happens to...

May 22, 2008

Wellek Library Lectures

Even as academics and scholars start to get ready for their summer break, there is still much anticipation and excitement about the Wellek Library Lectures series, which is going on this week. Held annually since 1981 at the Critical Theory...

May 21, 2008

Lt. General Ricardo Sanchez and his role in the Administration of Torture

In his review of Lt. General Ricardo Sanchez’s new book Wiser in Battle: A Soldier’s Story, Scott McLemee of Bloomberg.com notes that the former head of coalition forces in Iraq offers a similar message found in other books about how...

May 20, 2008

Award News: Rebecca Walkowitz for Cosmopolitan Style

We here at the Press continue to be committed to publishing exciting new monographs and first books by up-and-coming scholars, so it always good when of those works and their authors get their due. At the recent International Conference on...

May 19, 2008

The Nakba: An Interview with Lila Abu-Lughod

Der Spiegel recently interviewed Lila Abu-Lughod, coeditor of Nakba: Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory about the 60th anniversary of the the expulsion of Palestinians from their homes in 1948. Here is an excerpt from the interview: Lila Abu-Lughod:...

May 16, 2008

An Interview with Houston Baker in Diverse Magazine

Interest in Houston Baker’s Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Movement continues as evidenced by the interview he gave to Diverse: Issues in Higher Education. You can hear or read the interview. In the...

May 15, 2008

The Importance of Ernst Tugendhat: An Interview with Santiago Zabala

Ernst Tugendhat, has become in the words of Richard Rorty, a philosopher, who “built bridges between continents and between centuries.” Admirers of Tugendhat, Rorty among them, point to his ability to move beyond the continental/analytic divide that has characterized and...