August 13, 2024

Language Haunted by Sex?

Armine Kotin Mortimer

Armine Kotin Mortimer, who translated Dostoyevsky in the Face of Death by Julia Kristeva, discussed what he considered when translating the book’s subtitle “Language Haunted by Sex.

August 3, 2023

Ten Must-Read Books for Women in Translation Month 2023

Great books deserve a second life on the international stage; however, each year, books authored by women make up a disproportionately small percentage of the total number of works translated into English. This gender disparity is exactly why Meytal Radzinski...

March 1, 2023

Twenty Books to Read for Women’s History Month 2023

Join us in celebrating the cultural, social, and leadership contributions women have played throughout history. From their critical roles in politics and advocacy to the fight against sexual violence, the underrepresentation of women in the workplace and scholarship to unsung...

September 13, 2021

Announcing Our 2021-2022 Philosophy Catalog

Letter from the Philosophy Editor: It is with great pleasure that I present the Columbia University Press philosophy catalog for 2022. These titles, which span subjects from critical theory to political philosophy to philosophy of religion, aesthetics, environmental and animal...

August 25, 2020

The Timeliness of Julia Kristeva’s The Enchanted Clock

By Armine Kotin Mortimer

“Kristeva deftly weaves together multiple strands of a narrative that links a presently degraded state of France, Europe, and the world, in the grip of violence, fanaticism, rigid identity politics, anti-intellectualism, a general loss of quality of life, to the...

August 1, 2020

Women in Translation Month 2020! A Celebration of Philosophy and Literature

Welcome to Women in Translation Month 2020! WITMonth was launched six years ago when blogger and scholar Meytal Tadzinkski noticed that works by women authors made up less than 30% of the books translated into English. Since then, WITMonth has...

October 15, 2019

New Book Tuesday! Educating Harlem, The Art of Ideas, and More!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Educating Harlem A Century of Schooling and Resistance in a Black Community Edited by Ansley T. Erickson and Ernest Morrell Educating Harlem brings together a multidisciplinary group of scholars to consider the...

September 13, 2019

Weekend Reading List: Theory and Philosophy in Translation

To continue our immersion into National Translation Month, we’ve compiled a weekend reading list of translated philosophical books for you to expand your mind’s eye beyond language barriers and borders. •  •  •  •  •  • From the Translations from...

August 2, 2019

Book Excerpt Hatred and Forgiveness, by Julia Kristeva

“In Hatred and Forgiveness the philosopher and psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva focuses on the heterogeneity of forgiveness and hatred, which is elaborated in terms of its subversion and sublimation in and through psychoanalysis and text. This book reflects the wide spectrum, and already...

June 11, 2019

New Book Tuesday! Robert Rauschenberg, Antidemocracy in America, Passions of Our Time , and more!

Our weekly listing of new books is now available! Robert Rauschenberg An Oral History Edited by Sara Sinclair with Peter Bearman and Mary Marshall Clark Antidemocracy in America Truth, Power, and the Republic at Risk Edited by Eric Klinenberg, Caitlin...

August 9, 2018

Julia Kristeva Works in English

“If there’s an English language translation of a book authored by Julia Kristeva, it was likely published by Columbia University Press.” ~ Eric Schwartz In honor of Women in Translation Month, this week, we are featuring the work of Julia...

August 8, 2018

Julia Kristeva and Thought in Revolt

In honor of Women in Translation Month, this week we are celebrating Julia Kristeva. Today, we are happy to bring you an excerpt from a Times Literary Supplement piece about her impact on literary criticism, psychoanalysis and semiotics. Remember to enter our...