Ten Must-Read Books for Juneteenth 2023

June 19th, or Juneteenth, commemorates the 1865 proclamation for the freedom of enslaved people in Texas, but it also has come to broadly celebrate Black American culture and the continuing fight by Black Americans for liberation and equality. The books...

June 15, 2020

Standing Up Against Injustice: Rethinking Resistance Efforts and Social Change

Social change comes about through the efforts of those who stand up and fight back against injustice. As we witness a groundswell of activism, we offer this selection of books chronicling and analyzing past and present moments of resistance in...

June 5, 2020

We Stand in Solidarity with All Those Peacefully Protesting Injustice

Columbia University Press strongly condemns the unjust killing of George Floyd and the deaths of many who went before him. We protest the systemic racism that plagues our country, and we must dedicate ourselves to eradicating it. We stand in...

January 3, 2020

Announcing Our 2020 Literary Studies Catalog

Letter from the Editors: Four English professors, some friends, some strangers, decide to read Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Quartet together. Their subsequent exchange of letters and essays about the experience of reading the novels resulted in The Ferrante Letters. This book...

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Ten Must-Read Books for Juneteenth 2023

Standing Up Against Injustice: Rethinking Resistance Efforts and Social Change

We Stand in Solidarity with All Those Peacefully Protesting Injustice

Announcing Our 2020 Literary Studies Catalog