January 7, 2020

New Book Tuesday! Fresh Kills, Forms of Poetic Attention, A Slave Between Empires and more!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Fresh Kills A History of Consuming and Discarding in New York City Martin V. Melosi Fresh Kills—a monumental 2,200-acre structure on Staten Island—was once the world’s largest landfill. Martin V. Melosi...

January 6, 2020

Book Giveaway! If You’re in a Dogfight, Become a Cat!: Strategies for Long-Term Growth, by Leonard Sherman

“A wonderfully comprehensive view of competition and competitive strategy and illustrating it well with contemporary examples and citing of the scholarly literature and linking that to action oriented techniques.” ~John Czepiel, New York University Stern School of Business This month,...

January 3, 2020

Announcing Our 2020 Literary Studies Catalog

Letter from the Editors: Four English professors, some friends, some strangers, decide to read Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Quartet together. Their subsequent exchange of letters and essays about the experience of reading the novels resulted in The Ferrante Letters. This book...

January 2, 2020

Book Excerpt! Views from the Streets, By Roberto R. Aspholm (introduction)

“In this path-breaking book, Roberto R. Aspholm reminds us that our understandings of contemporary gang culture remain mired in nostalgia and urban legend. Views from the Streets provides an unprecedented look at the new social dynamics resulting from public housing demolitions, displacement,...

January 1, 2020

Understanding Contemporary Gangs and Violence in Chicago

“I am very excited about Views from the Streets. It addresses central questions in contemporary gang research. . . It does so by offering what is deeply needed but rarely accomplished in this field: a grounded analysis providing a convincing, cogent...

December 31, 2019

Eight Books to Help You Understand the Climate Crises and What You Can do to Curtail Future Deterioration

Climate change is a global problem. The increasing temperature, shrinking ice sheets, and surge of extreme weather conditions have damaged Earth—affecting everyone that lives on this planet. Forecasts show that these effects will only get more extreme as time goes...

December 27, 2019

Take a Literary Vacation

It’s the middle of winter break, and as the temperature drops, snuggling up next to a cozy fire with a good book is the perfect way to relax. So today, we invite you to take a vacation through place and...

December 26, 2019

Book Excerpt! Suburban Fantastic Cinema, by Angus McFadzean (introduction)

Suburban Fantastic Cinema: Growing Up in the Late Twentieth Century  is a study of American movies in which preteen and teenage suburban boys are called upon to combat a disruptive force. Beginning in the 1980s, the suburban fantastic established itself as...

December 25, 2019

New from our Distributed Presses!

Our weekly list of new books from our distributed presses is now available! New From Transcript Verlag From the Human Animal Studies series Animal Labor A New Perspective on Human-Animal Relations Edited by Jocelyne Porcher and Jean Estebanez Do animals work?...

December 24, 2019

The Resurgence of Nostalgia: How Suburban Fantastic Cinema Dominated the Late 2010s

“A master class in film genre criticism. It offers careful and close analysis of the films in its corpus, and is a great example of how much meaning is latent in popular films that are sometimes dismissed as merely juvenile or...

December 24, 2019

New Book Tuesday! Views from the Streets, Arts of Address, and V.S. Naipaul’s Journeys

Our weekly list of new books is now available! From the Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts series Arts of Address Being Alive to Language and the World Monique Roelofs Monique Roelofs offers a pathbreaking systematic model...

December 20, 2019

Book Excerpt! The Rise and Fall of the Religious Left, By L. Benjamin Rolsky (introduction)

“Rolsky demonstrates how Norman Lear, the renowned television producer of classic shows like All in the Family, offers a window into the evolution of the religious left in the 1970s and its complex relationship with the moral majority. A fascinating and...