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...

September 12, 2018

Q&A: Mark Garrett Cooper and John Marx on Media U

“This book powerfully demonstrates that universities have been media institutions all along, well before the mobile phone and the MOOC. Cooper and Marx challenge us to consider what is at stake when universities approach the educated class as an “audience”...

September 12, 2018

Richard F. Calichman on Translating Abe Kōbō’s Beasts Head For Home

Today’s post for our National Translation Month feature is written by Richard F. Calichman, professor of Japanese studies at the City College of New York, CUNY and translator of the novel Beasts Head for Home by Abe Kōbō. Remember to enter...

September 11, 2018

Book Excerpt! Smarter New York City: How City Agencies Innovate

“Cities today are hotbeds of innovation for sustainable development, and Smarter New York City presents a compendium of fascinating and insightful case studies of how New York City is building a smarter, fairer, and greener city. This is a brilliant, timely, and...

September 11, 2018

New Book Tuesday! GMO China, Mind Beyond Brain, Social Empathy and More!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Raising China’s Revolutionaries Modernizing Childhood for Cosmopolitan Nationalists and Liberated Comrades, 1920s-1950s Margaret Mih Tillman GMO China How Global Debates Transformed China’s Agricultural Biotechnology Policies Cong Cao The Stigma Effect Unintended...

September 11, 2018

A Reluctant Translator: Reflections from John Nathan

As part of our month-long feature celebrating National Translation Month, today we have a guest post by John Nathan, author of Sōseki: Modern Japan’s Greatest Novelist and translator of Natsume Sōseki’s final novel Light and Dark. Remember to enter our drawing...

September 8, 2018

Book Excerpt! For Nirvana: 108 Zen Sijo Poems by Cho Oh-Hyun

September is National Translation Month. On Saturdays throughout the month we will be featuring our translations of poetry. Today, we are focusing on selections from For Nirvana: 108 Zen Sijo Poems by Cho Oh-Hyun, including section 2 from Kwon Youngmin’s...