April 3, 2008

Columbia Authors at the Asian Studies Association Conference

Continuing our look at Columbia authors’ participation at conferences, we offer a list of panelists at the Asian Studies Association conference being held this weekend in Atlanta. From the femme fatale in Japanese literature to monetary policy in China, the...

April 2, 2008

An International Look at National Poetry Month

We’ve decided to give national poetry month a more international feel by highlighting poetry from around the world. One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each is a translation of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu, an anthology compiled in the thirteenth century. Like...

April 1, 2008

Sales and Special Offers

A definitive guide to world cinema today, a new history of the Hudson River, and Olivier Roy’s new book on the Middle East— all these books are currently available at a 20% discount. While the CUP blog is mostly devoted...

March 31, 2008

Women's Letters

To close out National Women’s History Month we bring you a look at women’s history in their own words with a round-up of books featuring women’s letter writing. (For more titles in Women’s Studies.) Margaretta Jolly’s excellent study of how...

March 28, 2008

CUP Authors at the Organization of American Historians Convention

This coming weekend scholars of American history will descend upon New York City for their annual convention, sponsored by the Organization for American Historians. Several Columbia University Press authors will be there on panels covering everything from Islam in the...

March 27, 2008

Robert Barnett on Tibet

Yesterday’s Foreign Policy Web site ran an interview with Robert Barnett, author of Lhasa: Streets with Memories, about the current situation in Tibet. In the interview Barnett, talks about the significance of the protests in Tibetan rural areas, the possible...

March 26, 2008

The Fire: The Bombing of Germany, 1940-1945

First published in English in 2006, Jörg Friedrich’s The Fire: The Bombing of Germany, 1940-1945 is now available in paperback. Upon publication of the hardcover edition of the book, Peter Dimock, the editor of The Fire, wrote the following essay...

March 25, 2008

Books for the Candidates: Immigration

Immigration, a contentious issue among Republicans during the primaries, is sure to surface again in the general election. The recently published Keeping Out the Other: A Critical Introduction to Immigration Enforcement argues that while the focus on enforcement has intensified...

March 24, 2008

Margaretta Jolly in New York City to talk about women’s letters

From March 26 to 31 Margaretta Jolly will be in New York City to discuss her new book, In Love and Struggle: Letters in Contemporary Feminism. You can see the full list of all author events, including Margaretta Jolly’s, on...

March 21, 2008

Blogging Columbia University Press Authors

While we hope you stay and read the posts on this blog, we also want to let you know about some other Columbia-related blogs: Noelle McAfee, visiting professor of philosophy at George Mason University and author of the just published...

March 20, 2008

Award Update: Lambda and Choice

Congratulations to Beth Firestein and all of the contributors to Becoming Visible: Counseling Bisexuals Across the Lifespan for being named a finalist in the Bisexual category of the 20th Annual Lambda Literary Awards. We’ve also posted an interview with Beth...

March 19, 2008

Interview with Jonathan Freedman, author of Klezmer America

Question: So, why did you write this book? Jonathan Freedman: The question any author dreads—and hopes for! I’ve been teaching and writing a lot about the Jews in America and was wondering why so much of the critical writing of...