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...

October 13, 2020

Announcing the Winner of the Sixth Annual Columbia University Press Distinguished Book Award

Columbia University Press, in conjunction with the Office of the Provost of Columbia University, is pleased to announce that A Haven and a Hell: The Ghetto in Black America by Lance Freeman is the winner of the sixth annual Columbia...

October 12, 2020

Columbia University Press Congratulates Author Paul Milgrom on Winning the Nobel Prize in Economics

American economist Paul Milgrom along with his colleague Robert Wilson have been awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for their contributions to auction theory, announced the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Monday, October 12. Milgrom, the Shirley...

October 12, 2020

Webinar: Lionel Barber in Conversation with Gilles Kepel

 “Gilles Kepel has long been France’s most sophisticated scholar of radical Islam, and Away from Chaos is his personal and political summa—a remarkable synthesis of decades of passionate engagement with the Middle East.” ~Robert F. Worth, The New York Times Magazine...

October 11, 2020

Q&A: M’hamed Oualdi on A Slave Between Empires

“M’hamed Oualdi’s biography cum social history is dazzling. In life and death, General Husayn Ibn ‘Abdallah’s story reveals unlikely itineraries, unsuspected traveling companions, and hidden transactions that call into question conventional histories of nineteenth-century North Africa and the Ottoman Empire....

October 10, 2020

Video: Todd McGowan in Conversation with Richard Boothby on Emancipation After Hegel

 “Todd McGowan’s Emancipation After Hegel could not come at a more appropriate time: the time when we truly need to carefully (re)think and reestablish the idea of emancipation. The book does this in a brilliant and compelling way, taking contradiction—as understood...

October 10, 2020

Take a Tour of Our MESA Virtual Exhibit with Caelyn Cobb

Hello and welcome to the Columbia University Press virtual exhibit booth for this year’s meeting of the Middle East Studies Association. This year is unusual in more than one way for MESA. Not only are we all attending the conference...