February 14, 2022

Richard Ambron in Conversation with Robyn Massey About The Brain and Pain

For forty years, Richard Ambron directed a neuroscience lab at the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University. This experience makes him uniquely qualified to explain not only how pain happens, but also how to think about and...

February 10, 2022

A Stratum of Sadness That Abides

David Hajdu

One hundred and one years ago, in February 1921, Bert Williams proposed something more radical than it should have been. Williams, a three-decade veteran of the stage at age forty-six, had risen from the woolly ranks of Barbary Coast honky-tonks...

February 9, 2022

Q&A: Scott MacDonald on William Greaves, a Pioneer of African American Filmmaking

William Greaves is one of the most significant and compelling American filmmakers of the past century. Best known for his experimental film about its own making, Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One, Greaves was an influential independent documentary filmmaker who produced, directed, shot,...

February 8, 2022

Sidney Poitier and the New York Film Renaissance

By Richard Koszarski

I have been writing and researching the history of motion picture production in New York since the 1970s. Not the image of New York, but the way our local cultural and historical traditions interacted with broader industry trends to create...

February 4, 2022

Stephen Ross in Conversation with Robyn Massey on Chimpanzee Memoirs

Chimpanzees fascinate people for many reasons. The apes’ resemblance to humanity, as seen in their use of tools and their complex social lives, can awe us. But what moves someone to dedicate their lives to chimpanzees? In this conversation, Stephen...

February 2, 2022

Joseph L. Graves and Alan Goodman in Conversation with Olivia Treynor on Racism, Not Race

Joseph L. Graves and Alan Goodman’s new book, Racism, Not Race, breaks down crucial myths about race in a highly readable format. Dissecting everything from junk science on athletic ability to the real reasons different populations are more vulnerable to...

February 1, 2022

Celebrate Black History Month with Columbia University Press

February marks Black History Month, and this year, Columbia University Press is excited to invite you on an exploration of the Black experience. We’ll begin with an engaging discussion about “biological race.” Then we’ll travel to the glitzy land of...

January 26, 2022

A Soviet Futurist in Beijing

Sergei Tretyakov’s Internationalist Aesthetics

Edward Tyerman

“You are travelling to Beijing. You must write travel notes. But not just as notes for yourself. No, they must have social significance.” These are the opening words of “Moscow—Beijing,” a 1925 travel sketch written by the Soviet writer Sergei...

January 7, 2022

Emerging Markets: Damned If They Do, Damned If They Don’t

Lorenzo Forni

The COVID-19 pandemic has already had large negative effects on emerging economies. When the crisis hit, most emerging economies were in relatively good shape from a macroeconomic point of view. Their central banks were successfully adopting inflation targeting, exchange rates...

January 7, 2022

Announcing the 2022 Columbia University Press Economics Catalog

Featuring Titles from Columbia Business School Publishing

Click on the down arrow above to download the PDF. Letter from the Editor of Columbia Business School Publishing: As the founding publisher of the Columbia Business School Publishing imprint, I am honored to present our recent and forthcoming authors and...