May 21, 2019

Platonov’s Response to Stalin’s Assault on the Soviet Peasantry

To continue our Russian Literature Week celebration, today we are sharing an excerpt from Fourteen Little Red Huts and Other Play by Andrei Platonov. If you are in Washington, DC, don’t miss The Man Who Couldn’t Die author Olga Slavnikova...

May 21, 2019

New Book Tuesday! The Story of the Dinosaurs in 25 Discoveries, How Much Inequality is Fair?, Playing Dystopia, and More!

Our weekly list of new releases is now available! The Story of the Dinosaurs in 25 Discoveries Amazing Fossils and the People Who Found Them Donald R. Prothero How to Read a Japanese Poem Steven D. Carter New in Paper!...

May 21, 2019

Dr. Robert Coles: An American Odyssey

Photo credit: Peter Wortsman Recipient of a Pulitzer Prize, a so-called “genius” MacArthur Foundation award, and a Medal of Freedom, the child psychiatrist, author, and defender of tender lives, has been called “a national treasure.” Robert Coles ’54 Child Psychiatrist Pulitzer Prize–Winning...

May 20, 2019

Russian Literature Week 2019

It’s Russian Literature Week! All week (May 20-24) there will be events with acclaimed Russian authors, famed translators, and leading scholars and critics celebrating Russian literature. We’re bringing the #RussianLiteratureWeek celebration online by sharing excerpts throughout the week from our...

May 20, 2019

Taking Doctors’ Histories

“In these profiles of some of America’s most notable, influential, and fascinating MDs, Peter Wortsman merges social history, theory of the professions, and an intimate local cultural anthropology of Columbia University’s medical center.” ~ Rita Charon, MD, PhD, Professor and...

May 16, 2019

Book Excerpt! Political Categories: Thinking Beyond Concepts

“Political Categories proposes nothing less than a new way of thinking about politics and such political ideas and institutions as the state, sovereignty, power, and revolution. The question is how to define what is proper or singular to politics without isolating...

May 15, 2019

Position as a Political Category: Phenomenology and the Eroticism of Power (Part 2)

“Michael Marder’s Political Categories is much more than a book about politics. It takes a step back and looks at the conceptual apparatus we rely on when we talk about politics and engage in it.”  ~ Slavoj Žižek, author of Disparities and The Incontinence of...

May 14, 2019

New Book Tuesday! Vanishing Ice, The President on Capitol Hill, and Studying Horror Cinema!

Our weekly list of new releases is now available! Vanishing Ice Glaciers, Ice Sheets, and Rising Seas Vivien Gornitz The President on Capitol Hill A Theory of Institutional Influence Jeffrey E. Cohen New from Auteur! Studying Horror Cinema Bryan Turnock

May 14, 2019

Position as a Political Category: Phenomenology and the Eroticism of Power (Part 1)

“In a political world where simplistic reductions tend to reign, Marder offers a thoughtful reconsideration of categories as offering greater descriptive power and critical complexity than concepts that suppress the specificity of political phenomena. This is an important book that...

May 13, 2019

Announcing Our Fall 2019 Catalog

Dear readers, Our fall catalog demonstrates the effort we make at Columbia University Press to bring global perspectives to contemporary issues. These books represent the remarkable achievements of our authors in considering the dynamics of social change in a turbulent...

May 12, 2019

Mother’s Day: From the CUP Archives

Happy Mother’s Day! In celebration of this special day and the evolving roles of mothers—and what defines a mother—today we are offering you roundup of op-eds about motherhood from the our archives. •  •  •  •  •  • How Relevant...

May 10, 2019

Defining “Mother” Today

“This fabulous collection challenges our conventional understanding of motherhood and its connection to bodies, technologies, global migration, and policy, and pushes the debate to the next level…This volume is a must read for anyone interested in the issues of motherhood,...