November 14, 2024

Caelyn Cobb on Stepping UP for Turbulent Times

Making Sense of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

In Columbia University Press’s 130-plus year history, we’ve published countless books about the strife in the region, with many more on the way.

November 13, 2024

Miranda Martin on Stepping UP for Climate Science

Understanding Paleoclimatology, Climate Models, and Urban Planning

The climate crisis is a complex problem that affects all of us in myriad ways and requires a range of actions across governments, industries, and disciplines.

November 6, 2024

Lilit Žekulin Thwaites on Translating Crossing Waters by Luisa Etxenike

Translator Lilit Thwaites discusses translating Basque author Luisa Etxenike’s novel Crossing Waters—a story of three trauma survivors finding hope.

October 21, 2024

13 Must-Read Books for Understanding U.S. Policies and Media Relations

Raina Mansfield

Continuing our recommendations for books to read as the election cycle heats up, we curated a list of books about U.S. domestic concerns, such as climate activism, policing, immigration, and race relations, as well as books that provide insights on...

October 17, 2024

Claudia Leeb on Contesting the Far Right

In Contesting the Far Right: A Psychoanalytic and Feminist Critical Theory Approach, Claudia Leeb argues that psychoanalytic and feminist critical theory illuminate how economic and psychological factors interact to produce an extreme political shift to the far right. She examines...

October 16, 2024

The War on Mothers

Gil Anidjar

Gil Anidjar argues that the abortion debate is a struggle over foundational values and a broader attack on mothers, their labor, and their societal role.

October 10, 2024

Melissa Deckman on The Politics of Gen Z

Our nation’s youngest voters are increasingly spearheading progressive activism. In The Politics of Gen Z: How the Youngest Voters Will Shape Our Democracy, Melissa Deckman explores the world of youth-led progressive organizing, highlighting the crucial importance of gender and sexuality....

October 9, 2024

Andrew Payne on War on the Ballot

In this Q&A, Andrew Payne discusses the research process behind the book and explains what he discovered about the politics of foreign policy today.

October 1, 2024

Lucina Schell on “Sangre” by Mercedes Roffé

Lucina Schell reflects on “Sangre” (“Blood”), a five-line poem by Argentine poet Mercedes Roffé that carries the emotional weight of a nation’s unresolved past.

September 30, 2024

Santiago Zabala on The Greatest Emergency

An Exhibition Based on Why Only Art Can Save Us

Seven years after the publication of Santiago Zabala’s Why Only Art Can Save Us: Aesthetics and the Absence of Emergency, the prestigious cultural institution Círculo de Bellas Artes of Madrid will host an exhibition based on Zabala’s aesthetic theory. The...

September 25, 2024

Was January 6, 2021, a Rehearsal for a Greater Threat to American Democracy?

Brigitte L. Nacos, Yaeli Bloch-Elkon, and Robert Y. Shapiro

As a presidential candidate and the president of the United States, Donald Trump played a starring role in bringing hate speech, violent threats, and actual violence into the political mainstream. As a former president and once again a presidential candidate,...

September 24, 2024

Lawrence Schimel on Translating Music for Bamboo Strings by Carlos Pintado

In “The Challenge,” Cuban-American poet Carlos Pintado writes, in English translation by Lawrence Schimel: The distance between the rat and myself is minimal. She looks at the house from her smallness; I look at the house from my majesty. …...