November 7, 2018

C. Heike Schotten on Queer Terror

Today, we are featuring a book from the New Directions in Critical Theory series with a guest post from C. Heike Schotten, author of Queer Terror: Life, Death, and Desire in the Settler Colony. In this book, C. Heike Schotten offers a...

November 6, 2018

New Book Tuesday! Rollerball, by Andrew Nette

Our weekly list of new books is now available. This week, we have only one book: Rollerball, by Andrew Nette! Auteur Rollerball Andrew Nette

November 5, 2018

Can a Candidate’s Charisma Influence Voters in the Midterms?

Philadelphia’s KYW Newsradio interviewed Vincent Lloyd, author of In Defense of Charisma about charisma and the midterm elections. Hear what he had to say in the podcast below.

November 2, 2018

Notable Title: The Anarchical Society

Over four decades after its publication, Hedley Bull’s The Anarchical Society continues to define and direct work in international relations. Bull’s work has been praised for its flexibility — there is much more to it than the international society perspective that it...

November 1, 2018

Columbia University Press Welcomes Miranda Martin to its Editorial Team

Last month, Miranda Martin joined Columbia University Press as Editor of our Life and Physical Science list. She came to us from the University of Chicago Press where she was most recently assistant editor for linguistics and life sciences, acquiring titles in...

October 30, 2018

Q&A: Philippe Met on The Cinema of Louis Malle

Louis Malle was the pioneer of the French New Wave and went on to an acclaimed transatlantic career. Today is his birthday and to learn more about this great film director, our Donovan N. Redd interviewed Philippe Met, editor of...

October 30, 2018

New Book Tuesday! Transatlantic Speculations, Triadic Coercion, Conversion Disorder, and More

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Conversion Disorder Listening to the Body in Psychoanalysis Jamieson Webster Race Capital? Harlem as Setting and Symbol Edited by Andrew M. Fearnley and Daniel Matlin Triadic Coercion Israel’s Targeting of States...

October 26, 2018

Words Matter: The Many Meanings of Terrorism

This week we are featuring titles from our New Directions in Critical Theory series. Today, we have a guest post from Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson, author of Genealogies of Terrorism: Revolution, State Violence, Empire. In this book, Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson rejects attempts to define what terrorism...

October 25, 2018

Book Excerpt! Queer Terror: Life, Death, and Desire in the Settler Colony

This week we are featuring titles from our New Directions in Critical Theory series. Today we have an excerpt from C. Heike Schotten’s Queer Terror: Life, Death, and Desire in the Settler Colony. In this book, C. Heike Schotten offers a critique of U.S. settler-colonial...

October 25, 2018

My Time at CUP: Darrin Pratt

Darrin Pratt DIRECTOR, UNIVERSITY PRESS OF COLORADO COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1992–1993 EXHIBITS AND SPECIAL SALES MANAGER > My most vivid, and also odd, memory of my time at Columbia University Press is tied to my exceptionally brief modeling career, an opportunity...

October 24, 2018

What’s in a Name?: Violence and the Responsibility of Political Theory

This week we are featuring titles from our New Directions in Critical Theory series. Today, we have a guest post from Mathias Thaler, author of Naming Violence: A Critical Theory of Genocide, Torture, and Terrorism. In this book, Thaler articulates a novel perspective on the study...

October 23, 2018

Q&A Looking Back: Ang Lee’s Early Roots

Today is Ang Lee’s birthday. To celebrate, we have a special Q&A with Whitney Crothers Dilley, author of The Cinema of Ang Lee: The Other Side of the Screen, 2nd edition.  Whitney Crothers Dilley’s 2015 book, The Cinema of Ang...