April 30, 2008

The Wright/Obama Controversy: Perspectives from Houston Baker and Todd Gitlin

In a very interesting post yesterday, Salon asked a panel of political and cultural experts, including Houston Baker and Todd Gitlin, to weigh in on the debates surrounding Rev. Wright’s remarks and what Obama should respond. Todd Gitlin defended Obama...

April 30, 2008

Barbara Mensch, "South Street," and the Fulton Fish Market

In the posting Loaders, Lumpers and the Smell of Fish the New York Times blog the “City Room” writes about South Street by Barbara Mensch. The post coincides with a new exhibition of Barbara Mensch’s photographs of the Fulton Fish...

April 29, 2008

Kim Sowôl, Korean Poetry, and the Boston Red Sox: A Blog Posting from David McCann

As national poetry month comes to a close and the Pen World Voices Festival set to begin we are fortunate to have a posting from David R. McCann a translator and scholar of Korean poetry. McCann is also the Korea...

April 25, 2008

Party at the Tribeca Film Festival!

Join Wallflower Press and Columbia University Press for a party to celebrate the official North American launch of the TCM International Film Guide 2008 and Film & Festivals magazine during the Tribeca Film Festival on Tuesday, April 29th. Frances Ford...

April 24, 2008

James Millward on How China Can Improve Its Image Abroad

In a recent post titled “China’s story: putting the PR into the PRC” on opendemocracy.net, James Millward, author of Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang lays out six public relations ideas on how China can repair its image with the...

April 23, 2008

When Principles Pay: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Bottom Line

Continuing on our Earth Day theme, today we’d like to draw your attention to the newest book in the Columbia Business School Publishing imprint , Geoffrey Heal’s When Principles Pay: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Bottom Line. Heal argues that...

April 22, 2008

Earth Day 2008

Earth Day, founded in 1970 to raise awareness about the nation’s environmental concerns, is today, and we’d like to take this opportunity to highlight some of our recent ecology and environmental sciences titles. American Environmental History: An Introduction by Carolyn...

April 22, 2008

Tough Liberal: Albert Shanker and the Battles Over Schools, Unions, Race, and Democracy

Richard Kahlenberg’s biography of Albert Shanker the former head of the American Federation of Teachers was recently lauded in two different publications. In the New Republic, John Judis cited Tough Liberal: Albert Shanker and the Battles Over Schools, Unions, Race,...

April 21, 2008

The Green Press Initiative

In honor of Earth Day tomorrow, we want to highlight The Green Press Initiative, which is an organization dedicated to helping the book and newspaper industries understand their environmental impact. Columbia University Press joined the Green Press Initiative in April...

April 21, 2008

Review of Betrayal from the Los Angeles Times

Friday’s Los Angeles Times had a review of Houston Baker’s Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era. The review offers a very good summary of Baker’s argument and his critiques of prominent Black intellectuals:...

April 18, 2008

Fear of Freedom by Carlo Levi: An Event at the Italian Academy

While in exile during the Second World War, Carlo Levi, the famous painter, writer, and antifascist Italian from a Jewish family wrote the canonical essay “Of Fear and Freedom,” which was later published by Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux and in...

April 18, 2008

A Response to Stephen Burt's "Against Argument" from The Valve

John Holbo of the always rewarding and interesting literary criticism site, The Valve has written on Stephen Burt’s post “Against Argument”.