August 29, 2020

Columbia University Press Supports Independent Bookstores

When the COVID-19 pandemic forced shutdowns all over the world, Columbia University Press wanted to show its support for the literary community. With independent bookstores and publishers, already constantly challenged by corporate behemoths, facing an uncertain future, our director Jennifer...

August 27, 2020

Q&A: Ch’oe Yun and Chungmoo Choi on There a Petal Silently Falls

“Ch’oe is a versatile writer who cloaks stark perceptions of individual and social trauma with elegant craft, poignant metaphor, and occasional, sardonic flashes of humor.” ~Barbara Lloyd McMichael, Seattle Times We’re closing out Women in Translation Month with a Q&A...

August 25, 2020

Announcing our 2020-2021 Politics and International Affairs Catalog

Letter from the editors: The year 2020 has been one of unprecedented political challenges, and we are pleased to offer here some new books that may help make sense of them. Our political theory list features some timely books that...

August 25, 2020

The Timeliness of Julia Kristeva’s The Enchanted Clock

By Armine Kotin Mortimer

“Kristeva deftly weaves together multiple strands of a narrative that links a presently degraded state of France, Europe, and the world, in the grip of violence, fanaticism, rigid identity politics, anti-intellectualism, a general loss of quality of life, to the...

August 25, 2020

New Book Tuesday! One UP, The Future of Us, Social Appearances, and More!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! One Up Creativity, Competition, and the Global Business of Video Games Joost van Dreunen One Up offers a pioneering empirical analysis of innovation and strategy in the video game industry to explain...

August 24, 2020

Q&A: Natural Disaster Recovery Experts on Responding to COVID-19

COVID-19 has presented new challenges for leaders at all levels, forcing many to reconsider their emergency management processes. What are the impacts of the current public health crisis on disaster preparedness and community planning, and what will it take to...

August 21, 2020

Book Excerpt! Educating Harlem: A Century of Schooling and Resistance in a Black Community, edited by Ansley T. Erickson and Ernest Morrell

 “An outstanding collection of cutting-edge essays, Educating Harlem rewrites the narrative of twentieth-century urban education. Eschewing a single thesis or grand narrative, this groundbreaking volume shows the creativity, debate, fierce love, and impassioned determination of a community to make...

August 21, 2020

NonVerbal Precursors of Language: Intersubjective Relations Provide an Emotional Foundation of Language

By Herbert S. Terrace

Today, we are sharing the the next edition in this blog post series on The Origins of Language, by Herbert S. Terrace, author of Why Chimpanzees Can’t Learn Language and Only Humans Can. In this post, Terrace discusses how intersubjective relations...

August 20, 2020

Video: Bruce D. Haynes on “What Makes Harlem Special?”

 “Bruce D. Haynes’s story is a classic American tale—which combines the big themes of history with the gritty reality of a single family’s extraordinary story.” ~Jeffrey Toobin, staff writer at The New Yorker and senior legal analyst at CNN...

August 20, 2020

Book Excerpt! “Out of the Laughing Woods,” by Vo Thi Hao

“Long awaited in English, these stories are beautiful, nuanced translations from the Vietnamese side of the America-Vietnam War. One of the best collections I have read from postwar Vietnam, the stories illuminate the country’s darkest period with humor, shock, and...

August 19, 2020

Book Excerpt! Le Boogie Woogie: Inside an After-Hours Club, by Terry Williams (introduction)

“Terry Williams has already established himself as a master of gaining access to hard-to-reach, hidden, and vulnerable populations. He has done so again here, giving an in-depth look at a place with which most people will be totally unfamiliar in...

August 19, 2020

New from Our Distributed Presses! Science with Street Value, Creative Industries in Syria, How to Use Exploratory Scenario Planning (XSP) and More!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! ibidem Press Science with Street Value A Physicist’s Wanderings off the Beaten Track Theodore Modis In his groundbreaking book, Predictions: Society’s Telltale Signature Reveals the Past and Forecasts the Future, Theodore...