March 12, 2019

New Book Tuesday! Ocean of Milk, Ocean of Blood; Thomas Berry; The Limits of Tolerance and More!

Our list of new books is now available! Thomas Berry A Biography Mary Evelyn Tucker, John Grim, and Andrew Angyal Ocean of Milk, Ocean of Blood A Mongolian Monk in the Ruins of the Qing Empire Matthew W. King The...

March 11, 2019

Q&A: Nancy K. Miller on My Brilliant Friends

 “In this astute, passionate, rigorously honest book about her friendships with three extraordinary women, Miller delineates the mysterious geography of those attachments we are not born into, but choose freely. The longing, pain, confusion, envy, and joy that inhabit the...

March 8, 2019

#WomanUP for International Women’s Day!

University Presses across the country have banded together to showcase each other’s works for International Women’s Day. Take a look at some of our faves! Follow #WomanUP up Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter to see more from our peer presses. Enter our...

March 8, 2019

Roundup: Shani Orgad and Heading Home

We kicked off Women’s History Month with Heading Home: Motherhood, Work, and the Failed Promise of Equality, by Shani Orgad. In case you missed them, here’s a roundup of this week’s blog posts and other media coverage related to Orgad and...

March 7, 2019

In Memoriam: Donald Keene (June 18, 1922 – February 24, 2019)

Revered author and professor Donald Keene passed away on February 24 at the age of 96. The following post is written by Press Director Jennifer Crewe, who was Keene’s editor for many years. •  •  •  •  •  • I...

March 6, 2019

Book Excerpt! Heading Home: Motherhood, Work, and the Failed Promise of Equality (chapter 4)

Read an excerpt from chapter 4 “Aberrant Mothers/Captive Wives” of Heading Home: Motherhood, Work, and the Failed Promise of Equality, by Shani Orgad. In this chapter, Orgad illustrate this work of cover-up. It starts with the personal stories women tell themselves...

March 5, 2019

New Book Tuesday! On Bicycles, Banking on Freedom, Jacques Schiffrin, Chromatic Modernity, and More!

Our weekly listing of new books is now available! On Bicycles A 200-Year History of Cycling in New York City Evan Friss Banking on Freedom Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal Shennette Garrett-Scott Chromatic Modernity Color, Cinema,...

March 1, 2019

Join us in Celebrating Women’s History Month 2019

Today begins our celebration of Women’s History Month. If you’ve been following us, you likely know that Columbia has been a leader in the publication of gender studies and feminist theory since the 1980s. You’re probably familiar with Joan Wallach...

February 28, 2019

Lance Freeman on the History of the Ghetto in Black America

“Ghettos, which conjure up images of abandoned buildings, crime, and decay, would hardly seem to be something to celebrate in the original spirit of Woodson’s Negro History week. But whatever the popular stereotypes, ghettos were and continue to be more...

February 27, 2019

Jon N. Hale On The Mississippi Freedom Schools—An Ongoing Lesson in Justice Through Education

In today’s Black History month post, Jon N. Hale, author of The Freedom Schools: Student Activists in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement discusses the ongoing impact of Freedom Schools, which arose in the South as part of the Civil Rights Movement in the...

February 26, 2019

New Book Tuesday! Buying Gay, Media Persuasion in the Islamic State, New Authoritarianism And More!

Our list of new books is now available! Buying Gay How Physique Entrepreneurs Sparked a Movement David K. Johnson Media Persuasion in the Islamic State Neil Krishan Aggarwal The Book of Lord Shang Apologetics of State Power in Early China,...

February 21, 2019

Book Excerpt! Incomparable Empires: Modernism and the Translation of Spanish and American Literature, by Gayle Rogers

“By de-coupling their translational practices from the national literary traditions and imperial teleologies they were supposed to express and reflect, the writers analyzed in Incomparable Empires carved out creative spaces that radically reconfigured U.S. and Spanish literatures. Rogers’s brilliantly contextualized...