September 10, 2019

New Book Tuesday! A Philosophy of the Insect, The Wake of Crows, What Slaveholders Think, and more!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! A Philosophy of the Insect Jean-Marc Drouin. Translated by Anne Trager. The Wake of Crows Living and Dying in Shared Worlds Thom van Dooren What Slaveholders Think How Contemporary Perpetrators Rationalize...

September 5, 2019

Book Excerpt! Social Empathy: The Art of Understanding Others (preface)

“Elizabeth Segal’s groundbreaking work on social empathy explains how we can expand our capacity to appreciate the social contexts and lived experiences of diverse others. Given growing diversity and urbanization in countries worldwide, this book could not be more timely...

September 4, 2019

Time to Move Empathy from the Personal to the Political

“Using social empathy to frame community decision making such as social policies helps us understand our citizenship responsibilities. Especially in times of extreme political divisiveness, we need to be reminded of the consequences of a lack of social empathy—in our...

September 3, 2019

Announcing the Claremont Prize for the Study of Religion

Deadline for applications: October 1, 2019. The Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life at Columbia University is seeking submissions to its new Claremont Prize for the Study of Religion. The prize is dedicated to the publication of first books...

September 3, 2019

New Book Tuesday! The New Slave Narrative, Journalism in the Age of Virtual Reality, Why Chimpanzees Can’t Learn Language and Only Humans Can, and more!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! The New Slave Narrative The Battle Over Representations of Contemporary Slavery Laura T. Murphy Narrating Practice with Children and Adolescents Edited by Mery F. Diaz and Benjamin Shepard Journalism in the...

August 30, 2019

Weekend Reading List: Russian Literature in Translation

Women In Translation Month is winding down to a close, but you can still expand your literary horizons to include more works of Russian Literature authored by women. Our list below is split into two parts, first up is contemporary works of...

August 29, 2019

Book Excerpts! KLOTSVOG and THE MAN WHO COULDN’T DIE

 “Since its launch, the series has already enhanced the scope of Russian literary texts available in English, and it promises significantly more to come, with planned titles ranging from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries, by both new and established translators.” ~Katherine Bowers, Translation and...

August 28, 2019

Q&A: Marian Schwartz on The Man Who Couldn’t Die

“Darkly sardonic . . . . oddly timely, for there are all sorts of understated hints about voter fraud, graft, payoffs, and the endless promises of politicians who have no intention of keeping them. It is also deftly constructed, portraying...

August 27, 2019

Why A Novel About Post-War Trauma—Filled With Difficult Personalities—Makes a Great Beach Read

“Klotsvog is a story of everyday darkness told by the ultimate unreliable narrator… As Maya vibrates on a frequency between ruthless self-determination and charming narcissism, Klotsvog infects its audience with a compulsion to determine which dominates.” ~Foreword Reviews August is...

August 23, 2019

Weekend Reading List: Sinophone Fiction in Translation

Week three of Women in Translation month is coming to a close, but don’t fret. We’ve got a list to keep you reading through the weekend. China’s literary tradition includes many engaging works from contemporary female writers. Here a few...

August 22, 2019

Exploring Shanghai Gossip Through Literature

“Cast with ordinary people and steeped in lyrical simplicity, Howard Goldblatt’s superb translation of Fu Ping commands a disarmingly quiet beauty. It is as if Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg had miraculously resurfaced, not in the cornfields of Ohio but in the...

August 21, 2019

New Books from Transcript-Verlag!

Columbia University Press is a proud distributor of Transcript Verlag titles. Popular Music and Public Diplomacy Transnational and Transdisciplinary Perspectives Edited by Mario Dunkel and Sina A. Nitzsche The Techno-Apparatus of Bodily Production A New Materialist Theory of Technology and...