September 21, 2018

Alexei Remizov’s Early Modernist Masterpiece Sisters of the Cross

All this week we have highlighted our Russian Library series as part of our ongoing feature for National Translation Month. Today’s post is about the novel Sisters of the Cross by Alexei Remizov, translated by Roger Keys and Brian Murphy....

September 20, 2018

My Time at CUP: Dean Smith

Dean Smith DIRECTOR, CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1987–1988 ASSISTANT COPYWRITER, 1987 JUNIOR COPYWRITER, FEBRUARY 1988 SENIOR COPYWRITER, JUNE 1988 > I worked as a copywriter while working on an MFA in poetry at Columbia. It was my first full-time...

September 20, 2018

Russian Literature is Hilarious!

What does a forgotten novel originally published in 1863, a collection of stories from the early Soviet era, and a multi-genre collection of condensed, vivid contemporary work have in common? Aside from being published in English translation for our Russian...

September 19, 2018

Iliazd’s novel Rapture

This week we are highlighting our Russian Library series as part of our ongoing feature for National Translation Month. Today’s post is about the experimental novel Rapture by Iliazd, translated by Thomas J. Kitson. If you haven’t yet, enter our...

September 18, 2018

New Book Tuesday! Political Responsibility, Borders and Margins, Patient Safety, and More

Our weekly list of new books is now available! New in Paper! Political Responsibility Responding to Predicaments of Power Antonio Y. Vázquez-Arroyo Barbara Budrich Publishers Borders and Margins Federalism, Devolution and Multi-Level Governance Edited by Guy Lachapelle and Pablo Oñate...

September 18, 2018

Trivia Tuesday: Does Education Help Us Climb the Social Ladder? This Author Says Modern Schools Might Instead Reinforce Social and Economic Class Divides

Paul Willis’s Learning to Labor examines a debate that is just as lively today as it was when this book was first published almost forty years ago. Willis observed a group of working-class boys who were classmates in a secondary school in...

September 18, 2018

The Inaugural Russian Library Titles

As part of our ongoing feature celebrating National Translation Month,today we are featuring the first three titles published in our Russian Library series. Remember to enter our drawing for a chance to win an entire set of the Russian Library...

September 15, 2018

Book Excerpt! Ghalib: Selected Poems and Letters

September is National Translation Month. We have been sharing excerpts and guest posts throughout the month but have devoted Saturdays to featuring poetry titles in translation. Today we will be featuring selections from Ghalib: Selected Poems and Letters, translated by...

September 14, 2018

Monstrous Media: Keller Kimbrough on Monsters, Animals, and Other Worlds

As part of our ongoing feature celebrating National Translation Month, today we have a guest post written by Keller Kimbrough, who edited Monsters, Animals and Other Worlds: A Collection of Short Medieval Japanese Tales with with Haruo Shirane. Don’t forget...

September 13, 2018

Book Excerpt! Media U: How the Need to Win Audiences Has Shaped Higher Education

“This book shows that many of the strangest yet most important features of universities come from their status as media operations that try endlessly to increase and manage their audiences. By putting the pieces of our Humpty-Dumpty campuses back together...

September 13, 2018

Classic and Contemporary French Translations

Columbia University Press has published a range of classic and contemporary works by world-renowned French historians, philosophers, religious studies scholars, and social theorists such as Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Pierre Bourdieu, Hélène Cixous, Gilles Deleuze, and Julia Kristeva. A core...

September 13, 2018

Phyllis I. Lyons on Translating An Unknown Novel: Jun’ichirō Tanizaki’s In Black and White

Today we have a guest post written by Phyllis I. Lyons, professor emeritus of Japanese language and literature at Northwestern University and translator of Jun’ichirō Tanizaki’s lost novel In Black and White, for our month-long feature celebrating National Translation Month. Don’t...