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- [<h1>Q&A: Patrick J. Charles on <i>Vote Gun</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2023/06/01/qa-patrick-j-charles-on-vote-gun/) - Today, gun control is one of the most polarizing topics in American politics. However, before the 1960s, positions on firearms rights did not necessarily map onto partisan affiliation. What explains this drastic shift? In Vote Gun: How Gun Rights Became Politicized in the United States, Patrick J. Charles charts the rise of gun rights activism
- [<h1>The History and Politics of “More Guns”</h1> <h3>Patrick J. Charles</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2023/04/26/the-history-and-politics-of-more-guns-patrick-j-charles/) - To those who emphatically support gun rights, having “more guns” is generally seen as the solution to society’s woes. The way these people see it, the more guns there are, the less likely it is that crimes will be committed and the more likely that people will be civil. In other words, according to gun
- [<h1>Why Palestinians Are Known as the World’s “Best Educated Refugees”</h1><h3>Anne Irfan</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2023/08/23/why-palestinians-are-known-as-the-worlds-best-educated-refugeesanne-irfan/) - In September 2018, a report from the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics found that Palestinians have one of the highest literacy rates in the world. The finding chimed with the Palestinians’ long-running reputation as the world’s “best-educated refugees” – a claim often made by international organizations as well as regional actors. Particularly but not exclusively
- [<h1>Ten Must-Read Science Books for Summer 2023</h1>](https://cupblog.org/2023/07/26/ten-must-read-science-books-for-summer-2023/) - Summer is the perfect time to dive into the world of science through the pages of a good book. Whether you’re lounging by the pool or enjoying the great outdoors, these ten thought-provoking science reads are sure to both entertain and enlighten. The books on this list have plenty to teach—whether about the human brain,
- [<h1>The Inevitable Corruption of Modern American Life</h1><h3>Nicholas Hoover Wilson</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2023/08/01/the-inevitable-corruption-of-modern-american-lifenicholas-hoover-wilson/) - The story of the United States Supreme Court has lately been corruption. “But Nick, which corruption story do you mean?” I’m glad you asked! I don’t mean the famous 2010 Citizen’s United v. FEC ruling, which, according to Zephyr Teachout’s excellent analysis, vitiated centuries of “bright line” anticorruption law in the United States in favor
- [<h1>A First Wetting with the Coming El Niño in the Galápagos Islands<h1><h3>Markes E. Johnson<h/3>](https://cupblog.org/2023/07/19/a-first-wetting-with-the-coming-el-nino-in-the-galapagos-islandsmarkes-e-johnson/) - Island time includes the normal passage of life functions for a local biota in response to the daily rhythms of sun, moon, and tides as well as to the disruptions caused by big storms or other perturbances under extreme El Niño conditions. For paleontologists looking back in geologic time, it is possible to find evidence
- [<h1>Sighting of a Cambrian Island from the South Rim of the Grand Canyon</h1><h3>Markes E. Johnson</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2023/07/21/sighting-of-a-cambrian-island-from-the-south-rim-of-the-grand-canyonmarkes-e-johnson/) - The rocks studied by geologists are often described in a standardized code that delimits the words employed, right down to the choice of color, grain size and fabric among other physical attributes. The code is a product of the International Union of Geological Sciences, from which students may be trained for proficiency. I myself taught
- [<h1>Sergio Almécija in Conversation with Robyn Massey About <i>Humans</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2023/07/07/sergio-almecija-in-conversation-with-robyn-massey-about-humans/) - In a career that has spanned more than twenty years, Dr. Sergio Almécija has dug up fossils in Europe, visited museum collections all over the world, and, more recently, studied living apes in their natural environments in Africa and Asia. What was he looking for? He was trying to solve the mystery surrounding the origins
- [<h1>Beethoven’s Music</h1> <h2>Genius, Curiosity, Liver Disease, and Lead</h2> <h3>Larry S. Sherman and Dennis Plies</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2023/06/07/beethovens-music-genius-curiosity-liver-disease-and-lead-larry-s-sherman-and-dennis-plies/) - In our book, Every Brain Needs Music: The Neuroscience of Making and Listening to Music, we discuss the contributions of curiosity to creating music. Curiosity is a trait that can be described as “a state of information seeking that can be internally motivated.” When we compose music, we seek new musical ideas, constantly exploring how
- [<h1>Why Neandertals Were Not Intellectually Inferior to Cro-Magnon</h1><h3>Trenton Holliday</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2023/07/05/why-neandertals-were-not-intellectually-inferior-to-cro-magnontrenton-holliday/) - The idea of a world inhabited by several human species feels more like science fiction than science fact because there is only one human species—Homo sapiens—alive. Yet for the bulk of our evolutionary history, multiple human species did coexist, with the current single-species situation being very much the exception and not the rule. The best-known
- [<h1>The Battle of the Skirt</h1><h2>How Flappers Transformed the Fashion Industry</h2><h3>Han Yu</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2023/07/14/the-battle-of-the-skirthow-flappers-transformed-the-fashion-industryhan-yu/) - I can show my shoulders,I can show my knees;I’m a free-born AmericanAnd can show what I please.*** On August 23, 1923, the Parent Teachers Association of Somerset, Pennsylvania, gathered for a solemn task: petition the school board to adopt old-fashioned school uniforms and bar “short skirts, bobbed hair, and low-necked, sleeveless dresses.”[i] Catching wind of
- [<h1>Q&A: Vincent M. Figueredo on <i>The Curious History of the Heart</i></h>](https://cupblog.org/2023/07/12/qa-vincent-m-figueredo-on-the-curious-history-of-the-heart/) - The heart. To some, it is a mere blood pump powered by the brain. To others a symbol of love and health—an important piece of cultural iconography. But to cardiologist Vincent M. Figueredo, the human heart is his life’s work. In The Curious History of the Heart: A Cultural and Scientific Journey he traces the
- [<h1>Twenty Books to Read for Women’s History Month 2023</h1>](https://cupblog.org/2023/03/01/twenty-books-to-read-for-womens-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 heroines, to acclaimed authors across the globe, these books shed light on women’s voices throughout
- [<H1>The New Science of Smarter Schools</h1> <h3>Angus Fletcher</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2023/06/28/the-new-science-of-smarter-schools-angus-fletcher/) - What if schools trained only half our intelligence?What if the half that schools neglected was the half that innovates technology, revolutionizes science, and nurtures democracy? What if it was the half that helps guide emotion, increasing empathy and courage while calming anxiety and anger? What if this half could never be replicated by artificial intelligence
- [<h1>Diverse Voices and Intersectional Approaches<h1><h3>Hanna Askarpour<h3>](https://cupblog.org/2023/06/23/diverse-voices-and-intersectional-approacheshanna-askarpour/) - As we move into July, the excitement of summer starts to wear off. An air-conditioned apartment suddenly seems more exciting than soaking in the sun, and a book on the couch much more compelling than a Twitter scroll in a sweaty subway car. Fortunately, I’m here to deliver you from your summertime sadness with some
- [<h1>Narrative Activism</h1><h2>#MeToo from Harriet Jacobs to Tarana Burke</h2><h3>Leigh Gilmore</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2023/03/02/narrative-activism-metoo-from-harriet-jacobs-to-tarana-burkeleigh-gilmore/) - Especially in its early months in 2017, #MeToo was often described as unprecedented. Social media received credit for bringing a new level of public awareness to the scale of sexual abuse and, as a result, generating consequences for abusers. Certainly, this shift toward accountability felt new, as notorious abusers like Harvey Weinstein lost positions of
- [<h1>Max Gillman on <i>The Spectre of Price Inflation</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2023/04/25/max-gillman-on-the-spectre-of-price-inflation/) - “Why are prices so high? Is this a temporary spike due to Covid or the war in Ukraine?” In my new book, The Spectre of Price Inflation, I argue that our current predicament of price inflaction is unlikely to be a short blip and to understand it we need to look back on banking and
- [<h1>Q&A: Matthew Smith on <i>The First Resort</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2023/05/01/qa-matthew-smith-on-the-first-resort/) - In the mid-twentieth century, social psychiatry was an approach to mental health that stressed the prevention of mental illness rather than its treatment. In the 1960s, it led to the closure of asylums and the emergence of community mental health prevention programs that considered socioeconomic backgrounds. However, by the 1980s, the practice was in decline.
- [<h1>What Can a Study of American Polygamy Tell Us About Being Human?</h1> <h3>William Jankowiak</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2023/05/09/what-can-a-study-of-american-polygamy-tell-us-about-being-human-william-jankowiak/) - America’s fascination with the cable show Sister Wives (about an American polygynous family), along with their increased interest in exploring the viability of forming a polyamour (or plural love) arrangement, arises out of a relentless interest in whether they can achieve a more fulfilling marriage based not in a pair bond but rather in some alternative arrangement.
- [<h1>Q&A: Don Grant on <i>Nursing the Spirit</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2023/05/12/qa-don-grant-on-nursing-the-spirit/) - Illness and death have always raised profound spiritual concerns. However, today most people experience suffering and treatment in hospitals and other impersonal, bureaucratic facilities whose employees are expected to follow scientific, rationalized norms of behavior. How do professional caregivers—the nurses and other workers who tend to patients—navigate between science and spirituality? Based on extensive fieldwork
- [<h1>Q&A: David Hellerstein on the “Wild Ride” and <i>The Couch, the Clinic, and the Scanner</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2023/05/17/qa-david-hellerstein-on-the-wild-ride-and-the-couch-the-clinic-and-the-scanner/) - The Couch, the Clinic, and the Scanner, Dr. David Hellerstein’s new book, consists of fourteen personal chapters that capture the momentous changes in psychiatry over the past half century. Rather than a conventional dispassionate narrative, the tales told here explore highly tumultuous changes in a medical specialty that has repeatedly remade itself. Dr. Hellerstein is
- [<h1>Q&A: Simon LeVay on <i>Attraction, Love, Sex</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2023/05/25/qa-simon-levay-on-attraction-love-sex/) - Why do we have sex? Why do we fall in love? What attracts us to one another? And how do we compare to other species in the animal kingdom? Researchers have been trying to answer these questions for years, and Simon LeVay’s book Attraction, Love, Sex: The Inside Story sets out to share some these
- [<h1>Oonagh McDonald on <i>Cryptocurrencies</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2023/05/31/oonagh-mcdonald-on-cryptocurrencies/) - Bitcoin burst on the scene in 2009 in the aftermath of the financial crisis when trust in the Federal Reserve and financial institutions was at an all-time low. It appeared to offer a new kind of payment without any intermediaries—a new currency. Looking back over the decade or more, has Bitcoin fulfilled its promises? Cryptocurrencies:
- [<h1>How Mapping the Black Experience Will Shape Society for a Better Future</h1> <h3>Olive Vassell and Natasha A. Kelly</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2023/06/13/how-mapping-the-black-experience-will-shape-society-for-a-better-future-olive-vassell-and-natasha-a-kelly/) - “If you know whence you came, there is really no limit to where you can go.” With these words, writer James Baldwin captured the essence of the power of remembrance and commemoration: practices that unite and empower us, providing opportunities to consider the past and shape society for a better future. James Baldwin spent several
- [<h1>Ten Must-Read Books for Juneteenth 2023</h1>](https://cupblog.org/2023/06/12/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 on this list celebrate Black American culture—from jazz music to Afrofuturism—and reflect on the hardships
- [<h1>Maha Rafi Atal on <i>When Companies Rule</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2026/09/18/maha-rafi-atal-on-when-companies-rule/) - Maha Rafi Atal discusses the history of corporate rule, the limits of state regulation, and what it takes to hold global companies accountable.
- [<h1>Meet the Translator: Michael Berry</h1>](https://cupblog.org/2026/09/18/meet-the-translator-michael-berry/) - Meet Michael Berry, a longtime member of our community who has worked with us as an author, editor, and translator for more than twenty-five years.
- [<h1>Alejandro Álvarez Nieves on <i>Levittown Mon Amour</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2026/09/16/alejandro-alvarez-nieves-on-levittown-mon-amour/) - Alejandro Álvarez Nieves reflects on translating Levittown Mon Amour and capturing the language, landscape, and contradictions of Puerto Rico.
- [<h1>Whose Realism?</h1> <h2>Black Casting and the White Historical Imagination</h2> <h3>Katherine Fusco</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2026/09/11/whose-realism-black-casting-and-the-white-historical-imagination-katherine-fusco/) - Katherine Fusco examines Black casting, historical realism, and the white historical imagination in Hollywood films, from Gone with the Wind to The Odyssey.
- [<h1>Twenty Must-Read Books for National Translation Month 2026</h1>](https://cupblog.org/2026/09/10/twenty-must-read-books-for-national-translation-month-2026/) - Celebrate National Translation Month with these 20 must-read books spanning literature, philosophy, history, science, religion, and more.
- [<h1>Long Live Macaroni and Cheese! How a Dish Became American History</h1> <h2>Karima Moyer-Nocchi</h2>](https://cupblog.org/2026/07/24/long-live-macaroni-and-cheese-how-a-dish-became-american-history-karima-moyer-nocchi/) - Karima Moyer-Nocchi traces how macaroni and cheese reveals histories of labor, authorship, migration, and Black culinary traditions in the United States.
- [<h1>Centering Side Effects<h1> <h2>Jason Schnittker<h2>](https://cupblog.org/2026/08/31/centering-side-effects-jason-schnittker/) - Jason Schnittker explores why pharmaceutical side effects are more consequential than we realize and how social and psychological factors shape them.
- [<h1>Queer Histories and New Perspectives</h1> <h2>Neda Ravand</h2>](https://cupblog.org/2026/07/29/queer-histories-and-new-perspectives-neda-ravand/) - This AUP Roundup features thought-provoking blog posts on queer history, gender identity, science, and cultural history from university presses.
- [<h1>Five Jewish Foods and the Stories Behind Them</h1> <h2>Neda Ravandi</h2>](https://cupblog.org/2026/07/27/five-jewish-foods-and-the-stories-behind-them-neda-ravandi/) - This listicle highlights five Jewish foods that explore the history and traditions behind iconic dishes like gefilte fish and matzo balls.
- [Food as Medicine, Medicine as Food <br><h3>By Brian R. Dott</h3></br>](https://cupblog.org/2020/05/07/food-as-medicine-medicine-as-food-by-brian-r-dott/) - “A learned as well as lively book with many surprises. How chile peppers came to China from the New World just starts a story involving taste, regionalism, adaptation, and folklore. Chiles were key to Chinese cuisine’s subtlety and variety, and not just in Sichuan and Hunan either.” ~Paul Freedman, author of Food: The History of
- [Q&A: Anne Mendelson on Food and the Chinese American Journey](https://cupblog.org/2020/05/21/qa-anne-mendelson-on-food-and-the-chinese-american-journey/) - “Chow Chop Suey is an eye-opener, a book that will give everyone a deep appreciation of the exquisite skill required to produce authentic Chinese food and the sweep of history that brought Chinese cooking to America.” ~Marion Nestle, professor of nutrition, food studies, and public health at New York University and author of Soda Politics This
- [<h1>Reflections on the Overturning of Roe v. Wade</h1> <h2>An AUP RoundUP</h2><h3>Lindsey Bell</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2022/08/24/reflections-on-the-overturning-of-roe-v-wade-an-aup-rounduplindsey-bell/) - On June 24, 2022, the United States Supreme Court ruled to overturn Roe v. Wade (in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization), the landmark ruling that established the constitutional right to abortion in the United States in 1973. Abortion is now illegal in more than a dozen states whose “trigger” laws, which immediately went into effect after Roe v. Wade was overturned.
- [<h1>Justin Leroy on <i>The Lowest Freedom</i></h>](https://cupblog.org/2026/07/17/justin-leroy-on-the-lowest-freedom/) - Justin Leroy discusses how nineteenth-century Black thinkers challenged narrow definitions of freedom and argued that economic justice was essential to emancipation.
- [<h1>The Six Pillars for Creating a Brave Space in Therapy</h1> <h2>Victoria D. Stubbs </h2>](https://cupblog.org/2026/07/20/the-six-pillars-for-creating-a-brave-space-in-therapy-victoria-d-stubbs/) - Victoria D. Stubbs shares six principles for creating brave therapeutic spaces that foster vulnerability, trust, and meaningful dialogue across differences.
- [<h1>Religion and the Making of the United States</h1>](https://cupblog.org/2026/07/15/religion-and-the-making-of-the-united-states/) - This reading list explores how religious diversity has shaped communities, politics, and national life throughout the history of the United States.
- [<h1> Joshua K. Leon on Life in New York, in a Nation on the Brink</h1>](https://cupblog.org/2026/07/10/joshua-k-leon-on-life-in-new-york-in-a-nation-on-the-brink/) - Joshua K. Leon examines why New York City stood at the center of the Civil War crisis and what the turbulent months before the conflict reveal about the nation.
- [<h1>The Making and Remaking of the United States</h1>](https://cupblog.org/2026/07/01/the-making-and-remaking-of-the-united-states/) - These books trace the making and remaking of the country across centuries, revealing that the history of the United States has never been singular or settled.
- [<h1>Black Life and Labor Along the Erie Canal</h1> <h2>Mark S. Ferrara</h2>](https://cupblog.org/2026/07/06/black-life-and-labor-along-the-erie-canal-mark-s-ferrara/) - Mark S. Ferrara discusses how Black workers along the Erie Canal faced discrimination, displacement, and exclusion while shaping New York's economic growth.
- [<h1>Lives That Shaped the United States</h1>](https://cupblog.org/2026/07/08/lives-that-shaped-the-united-states/) - These books highlight figures who transformed how the U.S. understood democracy, art, race, education, business, celebrity, and public life.
- [<h1>How Food Shaped the United States</h1>](https://cupblog.org/2026/07/22/how-food-shaped-the-united-states/) - This reading list explores how food has shaped the United States through histories of migration, culture, religion, trade, and the people behind every meal.
- [<h1>Andy Secher on <i>Trilobites A-to-Z</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2026/09/09/andy-secher-on-trilobites-a-to-z/) - Andy Secher discusses Trilobites A to Z, the inspiration behind his comprehensive fossil reference, and what makes trilobites so fascinating.
- [<h1>Margaret Waller on Fashion, Masculinity, and <i>Napoleon’s Closet</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2026/06/08/margaret-waller-on-fashion-masculinity-and-napoleons-closet/) - In this Q&A, Margaret Waller discusses why she chose to pair Napoleon Bonaparte and Le Boux La Mésangère and why this history matters today.
- [Postpandemic Hopes <br><h3>By Michael Symons</h3></br>](https://cupblog.org/2020/05/13/postpandemic-hopes-by-michael-symons/) - “As an academic economist and former chef, this is a book I wish I had written. Symons’s work provides a unique contribution through its fusion of philosophy, economics, and food, arguing for the need to reject the acquisitive self-interest ethos of economics and instead return to a social-centric Epicurean philosophy. I for one would enjoy
- [The Global History of the Nineteenth Amendment <br><h2>By Mona L. Siegel</h2></br>](https://cupblog.org/2020/03/04/the-global-history-of-the-nineteenth-amendment-by-mona-l-siegel/) - “A stunning retelling of the Great War’s aftermath and how women rose up at the war’s end to demand a different and better world. Siegel’s evocative prose transports us back in time and around the world as women from east, west, north, and south descend on Versailles in pursuit of their rights. Peace on Our Terms is
- [Becoming Stuck: Residential Segregation and Upward Mobility in American Cities <br><h3>By Elizabeth A. Herbin-Triant</h3></br>](https://cupblog.org/2020/02/24/becoming-stuck-residential-segregation-and-upward-mobility-in-american-cities-by-elizabeth-a-herbin-triant/) - “Paying careful attention to social and legal processes in urban and rural contexts, Threatening Property refutes the often-unexamined notion that the rise of de jure segregation unified whites and subordinated blacks. In this pathbreaking study, Herbin-Triant reveals a crucial avenue of research for scholars and points the way forward.” ~Kenneth Mack, author of Representing the
- [Five African American Women Pioneers in U.S. Finance <h3>Shennette Garrett-Scott <h/3>](https://cupblog.org/2019/03/20/five-african-american-women-pioneers-in-u-s-finance/) - Between 1888 and 1930, African Americans opened more than a hundred banks and thousands of other financial institutions. One of those institutions was St. Luke Bank in Richmond, Virginia: the first and only bank run by black women. In her new book, Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal, Shennette
- [Q&A: A Conversation About the History of U.S. Property Restriction and Finance After the Civil War](https://cupblog.org/2020/02/05/qa-a-conversation-about-the-history-of-u-s-property-restriction-and-finance-after-the-civil-war/) - Noni Carter and Kristen Martucci interviewed three authors whose works consider the complicated history of property restriction and finance in the United States after the Civil War.
- [Q&A: Robert J. Durán on <i>The Gang Paradox</i>](https://cupblog.org/2018/11/27/qa-robert-j-duran-on-the-gang-paradox/) - “The Gang Paradox tells a story about the Mexican American experience on the border, including gangs and institutional reactions to them. In clear, descriptive, and refreshingly reflexive language Durán argues that the reality of gangs is far from its media image, and provides ample data to make his point. This book is educational in the best
- [The N-Word, Again: Bénédicte Boisseron on <i>Afro-Dog Blackness and the Animal Question</i>](https://cupblog.org/2018/11/29/the-n-word-again-benedicte-boisseron-on-afro-dog-blackness-and-the-animal-question/) - “Dazzling in its reach and groundbreaking in its methodology, Afro-Dogredraws the contours of intellectual inquiry with dogs at the lead. Boisseron aims to rethink the hyper-legality of racism and the practice of inequality in ways that are radical and far-reaching.” ~ Colin Dayan, author of With Dogs at the Edge of Life This week we're featuring Afro-Dog: Blackness
- [Seneca Village and Fair Compensation <h2>What the Archives Reveal</h2> <h3>Sara Cedar Miller</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2022/06/19/seneca-village-and-fair-compensation-what-the-archives-reveal-sara-cedar-miller/) - “This book is incomplete without finding those documents. They have to exist!” This became my constant lament to the guardians of New York City’s archives and especially to the ever-patient and all-knowing archivist Ken Cobb, the assistant commissioner of the New York City Department of Records. The information I was seeking was the amount of
- [No Matter Who’s Elected, We Need the Hillary Doctrine](https://cupblog.org/2015/07/15/no-matter-whos-elected-we-need-the-hillary-doctrine/) - Read a guest post by Valerie M. Hudson and Patricia Leidl, authors of THE HILLARY DOCTRINE: SEX AND AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY.
- [The Power of Nonviolence -- A Post by Joseph Kip Kosek](https://cupblog.org/2009/02/17/the-power-of-nonviolence-a-post-by-joseph-kip-kosek/) - The following post is by Joseph Kip Kosek, author of Acts of Conscience: Christian Nonviolence and Modern American Democracy. The concept of nonviolence seems to have little power today. Barack Obama’s inauguration, followed quickly by Black History Month, inspired many stirring tributes to the civil rights movement. However, the nonviolent outlook and tactics of that
- [Whose Identity? Which Politics?](https://cupblog.org/2017/03/02/whose-identity-which-politics/) - Read an excerpt from an article by Robyn Autry, author of DESEGREGATING THE PAST: THE PUBLIC LIFE OF MEMORY IN THE UNITED STATES AND SOUTH AFRICA, that originally appeared on the Huffington Post.
- [Q&A: Martin V. Melosi on <i>Fresh Kills</i>](https://cupblog.org/2020/04/04/qa-martin-v-melosi-on-fresh-kills/) - “Fresh Kills is excellent in many ways–clarity of prose, strength of narration, depth of research, and command of the literature. Melosi is one of the finest urban historians working today, and he is, although this will sound like an unintended slight, the premiere historian of garbage. He possesses as thorough a knowledge of the many
- [<h1>Five Reasons to Celebrate Frivolity</h1> <h2>Jehanne Dubrow</h2>](https://cupblog.org/2026/06/22/five-reasons-to-celebrate-frivolity-jehanne-dubrow/) - Jehanne Dubrow argues that frivolity—from perfume to fashion to humor—is a vital form of joy, self-expression, and resistance.
- [<h1>Five Myths That Are Making Life Harder for LGBTQ+ Youth Experiencing Homelessness—and What You Can Do About It</h1> <h2>Elaine M. Maccio and Kristin Ferguson</h2>](https://cupblog.org/2026/06/29/five-myths-that-are-making-life-harder-for-lgbtq-youth-experiencing-homelessness-and-what-you-can-do-about-it-elaine-m-maccio-and-kristin-ferguson/) - Elaine M. Maccio and Kristin Ferguson present five common myths about LGBTQ+ Youth Experiencing Homelessness and tips and strategies to combat them.
- [<h1>Robert Radin on <i>The Man Who Would Be Man Enough for Betty Velasquez</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2026/05/25/robert-radin-on-the-man-who-would-be-man-enough-for-betty-velasquez/) - Robert Radin discusses The Man Who Would Be Man Enough for Betty Velasquez, blending romance, satire, and comedy while exploring craft and humor ideas.
- [<h1>Xavier Aldana Reyes on <i>Body Horror</i>, Queerness, and the Politics of the Flesh](https://cupblog.org/2026/06/15/xavier-aldana-reyes-on-body-horror-queerness-and-the-politics-of-the-flesh/) - Aldana Reyes explores body horror’s appeal and how it illuminates queerness, marginalization, and the politics of embodiment.
- [Book Excerpt! <i>On Bicycles: A 200 Year History of Cycling in New York City</i>](https://cupblog.org/2019/05/02/book-excerpt-on-bicycles-a-200-year-history-of-cycling-in-new-york-city/) - “In On Bicycles, Evan Friss fills in the missing chapters that bicycles hold in New York City’s near-miraculous transportation history and shows how the city’s streets are finally catching up with them.”~ Janette Sadik-Khan, Bloomberg Associates, former NYC transportation commissionerYesterday, in tandem with the opening of the Museum of the City of New York’s City of Workers,
- [Book Talk: Black Life and White Supremacy in Property, Finance, and the City](https://cupblog.org/2020/02/06/book-talk-black-life-and-white-supremacy-in-property-finance-and-the-city/) -  We are continuing our feature of Lance Freeman, Shennette Garrett-Scott and Elizabeth A. Herbin-Triant today with this book talk moderated by Ansley T. Erickson, co-editor of Educating Harlem: A Century of Schooling and Resistance in a Black Community. Watch their presentations (with time codes listed below) to better understand the racial history of property and
- [Sidney Poitier and the New York Film Renaissance <h3>By Richard Koszarski</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2022/02/08/sidney-poitier-and-the-new-york-film-renaissanceby-richard-koszarski/) - I have been writing and researching the history of motion picture production in New York since the 1970s. Not the image of New York, but the way our local cultural and historical traditions interacted with broader industry trends to create a unique regional film style. There is a New York style of jazz, or rap,
- [Q&A: Scott MacDonald on William Greaves, a Pioneer of African American Filmmaking](https://cupblog.org/2022/02/09/qa-scott-macdonald-on-william-greaves-a-pioneer-of-african-american-filmmaking/) - William Greaves is one of the most significant and compelling American filmmakers of the past century. Best known for his experimental film about its own making, Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One, Greaves was an influential independent documentary filmmaker who produced, directed, shot, and edited more than seventy films on a variety of social issues and on key
- [A Stratum of Sadness That Abides <h3>David Hajdu</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2022/02/10/a-stratum-of-sadness-that-abides-david-hajdu/) - One hundred and one years ago, in February 1921, Bert Williams proposed something more radical than it should have been. Williams, a three-decade veteran of the stage at age forty-six, had risen from the woolly ranks of Barbary Coast honky-tonks and minstrel shows to become acclaimed as one of the most gifted comic actors and
- [Lanaw Benson: An Unusual Manumission Story <h3>Sara Cedar Miller</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2022/02/17/lanaw-benson-an-unusual-manumission-story-sara-cedar-miller/) - In James Riker’s definitive history of colonial Harlem, Lanaw Benson makes her only appearance in a footnote. In discussing a four-acre property that included a sliver of the future Central Park, Riker noted that “[David] Waldron sold it, June 6, 1793, to Lanaw Benson (colored woman).”[1] Yet research reveals that Lanaw holds an important, possibly
- [<h1>Beyond the Famous Few:</h1> <h2>Five Women Who Shaped Black History and Literature<h2> <h3>Courtney Thorsson</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2024/02/14/beyond-the-famous-few-five-women-who-shaped-black-history-and-literature-courtney-thorsson/) - One Sunday afternoon in February 1977, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Ntozake Shange, and several other Black women writers met at June Jordan’s Brooklyn apartment to eat gumbo, drink champagne, and talk about their work. Calling themselves “The Sisterhood,” the group—which also came to include Audre Lorde, Paule Marshall, Margo Jefferson, and others—got together once a
- [<h1>Q&A: Najha Zigbi-Johnson on <i>Mapping Malcolm</i><h1>](https://cupblog.org/2024/02/21/qa-najha-zigbi-johnson-on-mapping-malcolm/) - Mapping Malcolm is a collection of essays, conversations, and works of art that reinscribes Malcolm X’s memory and legacy across the built environment, forms of contemporary community building, and Black freedom movements as they continue to manifest across New York City and beyond. In this Q&A, editor Najha Zigbi-Johnson provides insight into the work of
- [<h1>Nicole M. Morris Johnson on <i>The Souths in Her</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2026/03/29/nicole-m-morris-johnson-on-the-souths-in-her/) - Nicole M. Morris Johnson reflects on how Black women’s creativity—across writing and dance—reveals the many “Souths” shaping diasporic experience
- [The Legacy of Eric Walrond: The Caribbean, Harlem, and Europe](https://cupblog.org/2015/03/13/the-legacy-of-eric-walrond-the-caribbean-harlem-and-europe/) - James Davis, author of "Eric Walrond: A Life in the Harlem Renaissance and the Transatlantic Caribbean," explores some of the ways in which Walrond, and, specifically, his Transatlantic existence reflect questions of blackness and identity in today's world.
- [James Davis on the Life and Work of Harlem Renaissance Writer Eric Walrond](https://cupblog.org/2016/03/03/james-davis-on-the-life-and-work-of-harlem-renaissance-writer-eric-walrond/) - An interview with James Davis author of "Eric Walrond: A Life in the Harlem Renaissance and the Transatlantic Caribbean"
- [Putting Harlem in its Place <br><h3>By Andrew M. Fearnley and Daniel Matlin</h3></br>](https://cupblog.org/2020/08/17/putting-harlem-in-its-place-by-andrew-m-fearnley-and-daniel-matlin/) - “Harlem: race capital, center of black culture, seat of black militancy—or dreamscape? These rigorous, innovative, and bold essays by contemporary scholars confront the myriad ways Harlem signifies and offer fresh, new ways of understanding the aesthetic, cultural, and historical meanings of that iconic place.” ~Mary Helen Washington, author of The Other Blacklist: The African American
- [<h1>Behind the Lines:<h1> <h2>How Plagiarism Popularized the Harlem Renaissance</h2> <h3>Adam McKible</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2024/02/01/behind-the-lines-how-plagiarism-popularized-the-harlem-renaissance-adam-mckible/) - The Harlem Renaissance made an early splash with millions of Americans through a blatant act of plagiarism.In March 1925, Alain Locke announced the flourishing of the New Negro in Harlem by guest editing “Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro,” a special issue of a relatively small-circulation magazine called the Survey Graphic that covered the social
- [<h1>Sandhya Shukla on <i>Cross-Cultural Harlem: Reimagining Race and Place</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2024/02/26/sandhya-shukla-on-cross-cultural-harlem-reimagining-race-and-place/) - Cross-Cultural Harlem: Reimagining Race and Place, proposes an understanding of Harlem as a place where peoples of different backgrounds collide, interact, and borrow from each other—and cross the borders of ethnic and racial identities and community enclaves in the process. Places like Black Harlem, El Barrio, Italian Harlem, and Little Senegal are often separated in
- [<h1>Lucy Diggs Slowe on Black Women, the Role of the University, and Democracy</h1> <h3>Amy Yeboah Quarkume</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2024/02/28/lucy-diggs-slowe-on-black-women-the-role-of-the-university-and-democracy-amy-yeboah-quarkume/) - Lucy Diggs Slowe (1885–1937) was one of the most remarkable and accomplished figures in Black women’s higher education. Her story is one of resilience, activism, and relentless determination to overcome barriers. She defied societal limitations to become a pioneering educator and advocate for women’s rights, yet her name remains mostly unknown. In this Q&A, Amy
- [<h1>Laura E. Helton on <i>Scattered and Fugitive Things</i></h>](https://cupblog.org/2024/03/27/laura-e-helton-on-scattered-and-fugitive-things/) - In Scattered and Fugitive Things, Laura E. Helton tells the stories of six Black collectors who played a pivotal role in shaping the early twentieth-century Black archive. From the parlors of the urban North to HBCU reading rooms and branch libraries in the Jim Crow South, these collectors undertook a challenging task: to preserve and
- [<h1>Technology and Vannevar Bush, Fifty Years Later</h1> <h3>G. Pascal Zachary</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2024/06/19/technology-and-vannevar-bush-fifty-years-later-g-pascal-zachary/) - On his death fifty years ago, Vannevar Bush was celebrated with a page one obituary in the New York Times. He died quietly in his home in the late hours of June 29, and his passing was met with the kind of solemn respect—even reverence—that most members of what Tom Brokaw labeled “the greatest generation”
- [<h1>Will Race and Gender Influence Opposition to Kamala Harris?</h1> <h2>Matthew Tokeshi<h2>](https://cupblog.org/2024/09/18/will-race-and-gender-influence-opposition-to-kamala-harris-matthew-tokeshi/) - Kamala Harris is the first Black woman to be a major party’s nominee for president. Her candidacy raises the question of whether race and/or gender will be grounds for opposition. In my book, Campaigning While Black, I answer this question based on data I collected during the 2020 campaign, in which she ran as Joe
- [Q&A With Amy Werbel On <i>Lust on Trial: Censorship and the Rise of American Obscenity in the Age of Anthony Comstock</i>](https://cupblog.org/2018/05/02/amy-werbel-on-lust-on-trial-censorship-and-the-rise-of-american-obscenity-in-the-age-of-anthony-comstock/) - This week, our featured title is Lust on Trial: Censorship and the Rise of American Obscenity in the Age of Anthony Comstock. Today, we are happy to present an exclusive interview with author Amy Werbel.Enter our book giveaway by Friday at 1 PM for a chance to win a free copy!• • • • • •Q: Anthony Comstock doesn’t seem
- [<h1>Nicole M. Brown in Conversation with Daniel Davis About <i>We Are Each Other’s Business</i></h>](https://cupblog.org/2025/02/25/nicole-m-brown-in-conversation-with-daniel-davis-about-we-are-each-others-business/) - In the 1960s and 1970s, the Welfare Rights Movement organized at both local and national levels, advocating for poor people’s inclusion, dignity, and autonomy. In We Are Each Other’s Business: Black Women’s Intersectional Political Consumerism During the Chicago Welfare Rights Movement, Nicole M. Brown, associate professor of sociology at Saint Mary’s College of California and
- [<h1>Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine’s Misdiagnosis of the Potential of Ward’s Island </h1> <h2>Philip T. Yanos</h2>](https://cupblog.org/2025/04/09/manhattan-borough-president-mark-levines-misdiagnosis-of-the-potential-of-wards-island-philip-t-yanos/) - Philip T.Yanos details the misinterpretation of Ward's Island's potential, advocating for housing solutions over increased hospitalization for mental health.
- [<h1>Ian F. McNeely on <i>The University Unfettered</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2025/06/16/ian-f-mcneely-on-the-university-unfettered/) - In This Q&A, author of The University Unfettered Ian F. McNeely emphasized the importance of competition and academic freedom in higher education.
- [<h1>Reimagining the Plantation Toward More Liberatory Futures</h1> <h2>Strategies in Black Self-Determination</h2> <h3>Jarvis C. McInnis</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2025/06/16/reimagining-the-plantation-toward-more-liberatory-futures-strategies-in-black-self-determination-jarvis-c-mcinnis/) - Jarvis C. McInnis discusses the transformation of plantation legacies as strategies in Black self-determination and community empowerment.
- [<h1>Daniel Kane on <i>Love, Joe</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2025/06/23/daniel-kane-on-love-joe/) - In this Q&A, Daniel Kane discusses his book, Love, Joe, and examines how Joe Brainard's letters speak to his artistic life and queer identity.
- [<h1>Brandon Rottinghaus asks, “Do Scandals Still Matter?”</h1>](https://cupblog.org/2026/01/12/brandon-rottinghaus-asks-do-scandals-still-matter/) - Brandon Rottinghaus asks, "Do scandals still matter?". He concludes Scandal hasn’t died, but its political power has eroded.
- [<h1>Diana Martha Louis on <i>Colored Insane</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2026/02/24/diana-martha-louis-on-colored-insane/) - Diana Martha Louise shares what she hopesColored Insane, will contribute to the ongoing conversations about racial justice, mental health care, and Black life.
- [<h1>Dorian Rhea Debussy on Women, Queer People, and the National Security State</h1>](https://cupblog.org/2026/03/22/dorian-rhea-debussy-on-women-queer-people-and-the-national-security-state/) - Dorian Rhea Debussy discusses The Lavender Bans and how women and queer people led change in the military and intelligence community.
- [#TurnItUp Neighborhoods: New York, Brooklyn, and Harlem's People, Places, and History](https://cupblog.org/2018/11/14/turnitup-neighborhoods-new-york-brooklyn-and-harlems-people-places-and-history/) - Think university presses only publish monographs and textbooks? Think again. University presses can play a critical role in publishing books about the cities and regions in which we reside. In light of #TurnItUp Neighborhood, today’s post features excerpts from some of our newest and most poplular publications about New York and its neighborhoods. New York History
- [<h1>After Emancipation</h1> <h2>Books on Freedom, History, and Black Life for Juneteenth 2026</h2>](https://cupblog.org/2026/06/03/after-emancipation-books-on-freedom-history-and-black-life-for-juneteenth-2026/) - These books explore how Black thinkers, writers, and artists have reimagined freedom from emancipation to the present day.
- [<h1>Queer Lives and the Ideas That Shape Them</h1> <h2>Books for Pride Month 2026</h2>](https://cupblog.org/2026/06/01/queer-lives-and-the-ideas-that-shape-them-books-for-pride-month-2026/) - These books offer grounded, critical perspectives for readers interested in the evolving landscape of LGBTQ+ lives and thought.
- [<h1>Lorraine H. Marchand on <i>No Fear, No Failure</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2026/05/18/lorraine-h-marchand-on-no-fear-no-failure/) - Lorraine H. Marchand discusses what inspired the book, how fear operates within organizations, and what leaders can do to unlock innovation.
- [<h1>Why We Remember the Nazi Book Burning</h1> <h2>Thomas Doherty</h2>](https://cupblog.org/2026/05/10/why-we-remember-the-nazi-book-burning-thomas-doherty/) - Thomas Doherty examines how 1933 Nazi book burnings became a lasting symbol of censorship, shaped by widely circulated newsreel footage and propaganda.
- [<h1>Three Truths About Intersex Medicine—and Why We Must Rethink It</h1> <h2>Iain Morland</h2>](https://cupblog.org/2026/06/03/three-truths-about-intersex-medicine-and-why-we-must-rethink-it-iain-morland/) - Iain Morland challenges intersex medical practices, exposing harms of early surgeries and urging a rethink of medicalization, autonomy, and patient rights.
- [<h1>Andreas Kaplan on <i>The Virtual Universe</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2026/05/04/andreas-kaplan-on-the-virtual-universe/) - Andreas Kaplan reflects on how the virtual universe could transform universities, redefine learning, and even challenge the role of human professors.
- [<h1>Why Multidisciplinary Climate Modeling Matters</h1> <h2>Mara Freilich, Irmak Turan, Jessica Varner, and Lizzie Yarina</h2>](https://cupblog.org/2026/04/20/why-multidisciplinary-climate-modeling-matters-mara-freilich-irmak-turan-jessica-varner-and-lizzie-yarina/) - Coeditors Mara Freilich, Irmak Turan, Jessica Varner, and Lizzie Yarina reflect on Climate Changed and the different disciplines represented in the book.
- [<h1>Johanna Winant on <i>Lyric Logic</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2026/04/28/johanna-winant-on-lyric-logic/) - In this Q&A Winant explains how poetry doesn’t just illustrate or allude to philosophy—it does philosophy.
- [<h1>Five Reasons Why Urbanists and Organizational Scholars Should Read Each Other’s Work</h1> <h2>Christof Brandtner</h2>](https://cupblog.org/2026/04/27/five-reasons-why-urbanists-and-organizational-scholars-should-read-each-others-work-christof-brandtner/) - Christof Brandtner explores why urbanists and organizational scholars must connect insights to better understand and advance climate action in cities.
- [<h1>The Elusive Challenge of Climate Justice</h1> <h2>Rebecca Marwege, Nikhar Gaikwad, and Joerg Schaefer</h2>](https://cupblog.org/2026/04/24/the-elusive-challenge-of-climate-justice-rebecca-marwege-nikhar-gaikwad-and-joerg-schaefer/) - Coeditors of Climate Justice Now explore the ethical, political, and social challenges in responding to the climate crisis.
- [<h1>Racing to Unify All of Humankind</h1> <h2>Kelly Oliver</h2>](https://cupblog.org/2026/04/22/racing-to-unify-all-of-humankind-kelly-oliver/) - Kelly Oliver explores reactions to the Apollo and Artemis missions, contrasting humankind's unity with the space race and plans to colonize the moon and Mars.
- [<h1>10 Must-Read Books for National Poetry Month 2026</h1>](https://cupblog.org/2026/04/09/10-must-read-books-for-national-poetry-month-2026/) - This curated National Poetry Month 2026 book offers a wide-ranging account of poetry’s forms, histories, and possibilities.
- [<h1>Al Filreis on <i>The Classroom and the Crowd</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2026/04/14/al-filreis-on-the-classroom-and-the-crowd/) - In this blog post, Al Filreis examines why nearly 100,000 people study difficult poetry online and what it reveals about the digital community.
- [<h1>John C. Mutter on <i>Disasters and Development</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2026/04/15/john-c-mutter-on-disasters-and-development/) - John C. Mutter explores how disasters are shaped by both natural forces and societal conditions, influencing risk, response, and recovery worldwide.
- [<h1>Fifteen Must-Read Books for Earth Month 2026</h1>](https://cupblog.org/2026/04/10/fifteen-must-read-books-for-earth-month-2026/) - These fifteen books explore how people, communities, and cities are taking action on climate change, examining how it intersects with social, political, and environmental systems.
- [<h1>Kristin Grogan on <i>Stitch, Unstitch</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2026/04/07/kristin-grogan-on-stitch-unstitch/) - In this Q&A, Kristin Grogan discusses Stitch, Unstitch and how modernist poetry reimagines labor, art, and life beyond work.
- [<h1>Listening to the Earth</h1> <h2>Radical Romanticism for a Time of Ecological Crisis</h2> <h3>Mark S. Cladis</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2026/04/08/listening-to-the-earth-radical-romanticism-for-a-time-of-ecological-crisis-mark-s-cladis/) - In this Q&A, Mark S. Cladis explores how radical Romanticism reshapes imagination, ethics, and our relationship to a world in ecological crisis.
- [<h1>Lizdanelly López Chiclana in Conversation with Alexander José Aponte About Translating <i>Adrift</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2025/08/12/lizdanelly-lopez-chiclana-in-conversation-with-alexander-jose-aponte-about-translating-adrift/) - Lizdanelly López Chiclana explains what it meant to take on Adrift, how her background shaped her reading, and what she learned through the act of translation.
- [<h1>What Counts as Knowledge, and Who Gets to Recognize It as Such?</h1> <h2>Isis Barra Costa</h2>](https://cupblog.org/2026/04/13/what-counts-as-knowledge-and-who-gets-to-recognize-it-as-such-isis-barra-costa/) - Isis Barra Costa examines Afro-Brazilian performances as knowledge systems, challenging how we read, recognize, and define knowledge.
- [<h1>A New Reptile Is Discovered, and Ten Poachers Book Flights to. . .</h1> <h2>Craig Stanford</h2>](https://cupblog.org/2026/04/01/a-new-reptile-is-discovered-and-ten-poachers-book-flights-to-craig-stanford/) - Using the Vallarta mud turtle as an example, Craig Stanford shows how new discoveries can endanger rare species by attracting collectors and poachers.
- [<h1>A Tribute to Jennifer Crewe,</h1> <h2>Retiring Associate Provost and Director of Columbia University Press</h2>](https://cupblog.org/2026/03/15/a-tribute-to-jennifer-crewe-retiring-associate-provost-and-director-of-columbia-university-press/) - A celebration of Associate Provost and Director Jennifer Crewe’s retirement after forty years at Columbia University Press.
- [<h1>Yanbing Er on <i>Feminism Enchanted</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2026/03/25/yanbing-er-on-feminism-enchanted/) - In this Q&A, Yanbing Er discusses Feminism Enchanted and why feminism must move beyond traditional narratives of progress.
- [<h1>Manu Bhagavan in Conversation with Maritza Herrera-Diaz About <i>The Remarkable Madame Pandit</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2026/03/15/manu-bhagavan-in-conversation-with-maritza-herrera-diaz-about-the-remarkable-madame-pandit/) - Manu Bhagavan discusses diplomat and stateswoman, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, how she reshaped global politics, and how her legacy still challenges us today.
- [<h1>Jennifer Crewe: A Legacy of Leadership at Columbia University Press</h1>](https://cupblog.org/2026/03/08/jennifer-crewe-a-legacy-of-leadership-at-columbia-university-press/) - Jennifer Crewe discusses her path to leadership and the lasting impact of her efforts to integrate the Press with Columbia University.
- [<h1>15 Must-Read Books for Women’s History Month 2026</h1>](https://cupblog.org/2026/03/01/15-must-read-books-for-womens-history-month-2026/) - These books explore women’s fights for political voice, economic and property rights, representation in science and the arts, and global movements for equity.
- [<h1>15 Must-Read Books for Black History Month 2026</h1>](https://cupblog.org/2026/02/01/15-must-read-books-for-black-history-month-2026/) - Celebrates Black voices, recognize Black contributions to literature and culture, and reflect on ongoing struggles with this Black history booklist.
- [<h1>If the European Novel Thinks Like a Person, the African Novel Thinks Like a World</h1> <h2>Ainehi Edoro</h2>](https://cupblog.org/2026/02/27/if-the-european-novel-thinks-like-a-person-the-african-novel-thinks-like-a-world-ainehi-edoro/) - Ainehi Edoro reflects on character, power, and narrative form, and how African novels think beyond the individual and imagine narrative as world-making.
- [<h1>Trump Plays Directly into China’s Version of Reality</h1> <h2>Thomas Colley and Martin Moore</h2>](https://cupblog.org/2026/03/02/trump-plays-directly-into-chinas-version-of-reality-thomas-colley-and-martin-moore/) - Thomas Colley and Martin Moore discuss how Trump’s volatility strengthens China’s global propaganda narrative and CCP-led global order.
- [<h1>Five Things You Didn’t Know About the Vestibular System</h1> <h2>Jeffrey D. Sharon</h2>](https://cupblog.org/2026/01/20/five-things-you-didnt-know-about-the-vestibular-system-jeffrey-d-sharon/) - Dr. Jeff Sharon, author of The Great Balancing Act offers five interesting facts about the vestibular system and highlights its importance.
- [<h1>Cisco Bradley on <i>I Hear Freedom</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2026/02/17/cisco-bradley-on-i-hear-freedom/) - Cisco Bradley discusses how oral history anchors the book and why the Great Migration and Black freedom movements are essential to understanding the music.
- [<h1>Jamall A. Calloway on <i>Imagining Eden</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2026/02/10/jamall-a-calloway-on-imagining-eden/) - Author, Jamall A. Calloway reflects on his new book, Imagining Eden, Black theology, and James Weldon Johnson’s reimagining of Genesis.
- [<h1>Jay S. Kaufman on <i>The Race Variable</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2026/02/03/jay-s-kaufman-on-the-race-variable/) - Author of The Race Variable, Jay S. Kaufman write about how racial disparity statistics are constructed, adjusted, and ethically interpreted.
- [<h1>How Trump’s Executive Order Threatens Scientific Understanding of Health Inequities</h1> <h2>Joseph L. Graves Jr.</h2>](https://cupblog.org/2025/06/04/how-trumps-executive-order-threatens-scientific-understanding-of-health-inequities-joseph-l-graves-jr/) - Joseph L. Graves Jr. explores health inequities, racial disparities, and the misconceptions surrounding biological race in his work.
- [<h1>Halle Tecco on <i>Massively Better Healthcare</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2026/01/26/halle-tecco-on-massively-better-healthcare/) - Halle Tecco, author of Massively Better Healthcare, explores how business models, incentives, and empathy can align to produce lasting impact.
- [<h1>Pauline Yu on <i>Chinese Songs in a French Key</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2025/10/13/pauline-yu-on-chinese-songs-in-a-french-key/) - In this Q&A Pauline Yu offers an inside look at Judith Gautier’s story and how she became a cultural bridge between France and China.
- [Reading List: Memoirs and Biographies in Translation](https://cupblog.org/2019/09/28/reading-list-memoirs-and-biographies-in-translation/) - Memoirs, biographies and diaries allow readers intimate insight into what life is like for people that are hundreds of miles away or lived hundreds of years ago. These select books offer a glimpse into the complex lives of writers, political activists, and common people from a wide range of backgrounds. • • • • • •
- [<h1>Megan Craig and Edward S. Casey on <i>Thinking in Transit</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2025/12/09/megan-craig-and-edward-s-casey-on-thinking-in-transit/) - Megan Craig and Edward S. Casey discuss their book, Thinking in Transit and how settings give rise to thinking in new directions.
- [<h1>Writing in the Ring</h1> <h2>Building Community as Authors</h2> <h3>A. Kayum Ahmed</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2025/11/12/writing-in-the-ring-building-community-as-authors-a-kayum-ahmed/) - A. Kayum Ahmed writes about the rewarding sense of community in the Columbia University Press author meet-ups for series authors.
- [<h1>Reading Sanskrit Anew</h1> <h2>Buddhism and the Language of the Gods</h2> <h3>Luke Gibson</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2025/11/05/reading-sanskrit-anew-buddhism-and-the-language-of-the-gods-luke-gibson/) - Luke Gibson highlights Buddhism’s deep connections with other religious and literary traditions, such as Sanskrit, a vehicle of literary artistry and dialogue.
- [<h1>Building Community Through Words</h1> <h2>Reflections on Our Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past / Present / Future Series Writing Group</h2> <h3>Carolette Norwood</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2025/11/10/building-community-through-words-reflections-on-our-black-lives-in-the-diaspora-past-present-future-series-writing-group-carolette-norwood/) - Carolette Norwood reflects on her experience in the Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past / Present / Future Series Writing Group.
- [<h1>Santiago Zabala on <i>Signs from the Future</i><h/1>](https://cupblog.org/2025/09/30/santiago-zabala-on-signs-from-the-future/) - Santiago Zabala answers questions about Signs from the Future and discusses the philosophy of warnings and why we seldom listen.
- [<h1>David Obst in Conversation with Renee Bales About <i>Saving Ourselves from Big Car</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2025/10/07/david-obst-in-conversation-with-renee-bales-about-saving-ourselves-from-big-car/) - David Obst describes the Big Car industry and lifestyle and its negative impact on society, and offers advice on how consumers can fight back.
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- [<h1>Johnny Lorenz on Translating Edimilson de Almeida Pereira’s <i>The Front</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2025/09/04/johnny-lorenz-on-translating-edimilson-de-almeida-pereiras-the-front/) - Translator Johnny Lorenz explores Brazilian novel The Front—where language becomes weapon & resistance through an unnamed narrator.
- [<h1>Darryl Sterk on Translating Syaman Rapongan’s <i>Eyes of the Ocean</i></h>](https://cupblog.org/2025/09/09/darryl-sterk-on-translating-syaman-rapongans-eyes-of-the-ocean/) - Translator Darryl Sterk reflects on the linguistic and cultural challenges of translating Syaman Rapongan's Eyes of the Ocean into English.
- [<h1>Christopher Peacock on Tsering Döndrup’s <i>The Red Wind Howls</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2025/09/02/christopher-peacock-on-tsering-dondrups-the-red-wind-howls/) - Translator Christopher Peacock discusses this work's place within the broader context of modern Tibetan literature and Tsering Döndrup’s research methodology.
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- [<h1>Lilit Žekulin Thwaites on Translating <i>Crossing Waters</i> by Luisa Etxenike</h1>](https://cupblog.org/2024/11/06/lilit-zekulin-thwaites-on-translating-crossing-waters-by-luisa-etxenike/) - Translator Lilit Thwaites discusses translating Basque author Luisa Etxenike's novel Crossing Waters—a story of three trauma survivors finding hope.
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- [<h1>Bruce Hoffman and Jacob Ware on <i>God, Guns, and Sedition</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2025/08/21/bruce-hoffman-and-jacob-ware-on-god-guns-and-sedition/) - Bruce Hoffman and Jacob Ware, coauthors of God, Guns, and Sedition, offer insight into far-right terrorism and it’s threat to U.S. national security.
- [<h1>Jonathan Kahn on <i>The Uses of Diversity</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2025/07/31/jonathan-kahn-on-the-uses-of-diversity/) - Jonathan Kahn, author of The Uses of Diversity, examines the distinction between social understandings of race and biological understandings of genetic variation.
- [<h1>The Myth of the Xenophobic Voter</h1> <h2> Alexander Kustov</h2>](https://cupblog.org/2025/05/19/the-myth-of-the-xenophobic-voter-alexander-kustov/) - Alexander Kustov, author of In Our Interest, argues that the stereotype of voters as inherently xenophobic oversimplifies public opinion on immigration.
- [<h1>Preventing the Military’s Slide from Critical Thinking to Anticipatory Compliance</i> <h2> Thomas Crosbie</h2>](https://cupblog.org/2025/04/04/preventing-the-militarys-slide-from-critical-thinking-to-anticipatory-compliance-thomas-crosbie/) - Thomas Crosbie critiques the Department of Defense's shift from critical thinking to anticipatory compliance under Trump.
- [Six Facts About Gun Violence in the U.S. That Everyone Should Know](https://cupblog.org/2019/08/05/six-facts-about-gun-violence-in-the-u-s-that-everyone-should-know/) - “Based on years of study, Dexter Voisin has written an unusually thoughtful, sensitive, and astute meditation on violence—what it means, how it comes about, how it affects people, and how the media choose to write about it. The book’s critical yet sober stance means the author’s clear and unmistakable sense of urgency is coupled with
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- [<h1>The Subtle Art of Messaging:</h1> <h2>How Far-Right Women Use Social Media to Shape Public Opinion</h2> <h3>Eviane Leidig</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2024/03/13/the-subtle-art-of-messaging-how-far-right-women-use-social-media-to-shape-public-opinion-eviane-leidig/) - Eviane Leidig demonstrate that far-right women have been at the forefront of legitimizing and normalizing extremist ideas for mainstream appeal.
- [The Role of Narrative and Narrative Activism in Social Movements <h3>Michele Moody-Adams</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2022/06/15/the-role-of-narrative-and-narrative-activism-in-social-movements-michele-moody-adams/) - It has often been said that “those who tell the stories rule the world.” Versions of this claim can be found in sources as varied as Plato’s dialogues, traditional Hopi wisdom, and a recent work such as Narrative Economics (2019) by Nobel laureate Robert J. Shiller. Efforts to draw on the power of narrative have
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- [<h1>13 Must-Read Books for Understanding U.S. Policies and Media Relations</h1> <h2>Raina Mansfield</h2>](https://cupblog.org/2024/10/21/13-must-read-books-for-understanding-u-s-policies-and-media-relations-raina-mansfield/) - Continuing our recommendations for books to read as the election cycle heats up, we curated a list of books about U.S. domestic concerns, such as climate activism, policing, immigration, and race relations, as well as books that provide insights on U.S. foreign relations, such as war policies and sanctions. We conclude the list with more
- [<h1>12 Must-Read Books About U.S. Voters, Presidential Campaigns, and Partisan Politics</h1><h2>Raina Mansfield</h2>](https://cupblog.org/2024/09/02/12-must-read-books-about-u-s-voters-presidential-campaigns-and-partisan-politicsraina-mansfield/) - This November, millions of Americans will vote in what is sure to be a historic election. To help you be more informed about the current U.S. voting base and campaign politics, we curated this book list that offers a fresh perspective on voters, campaign insights, the U.S. presidency, and party relations. U.S. Voters: The Politics
- [<h1>David T. Buckley on <i>Blessing America First</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2024/09/11/david-t-buckley-on-blessing-america-first/) - In the lead-up to the 2024 U.S. presidential election, Donald Trump’s presidential legacy continues to shape U.S. foreign policy. David T. Buckley argues that the Trump administration’s populist approach transformed religion from a tool of statecraft into a strategy of political control. As voters consider our country’s future in global affairs, Blessing America First: Religion,
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- [<h1>The Evolving Politics of the Rust Belt "Union Man"</h1><h3>Lainey Newman</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2023/12/18/the-evolving-politics-of-the-rust-belt-union-manlainey-newman/) - In the heyday of American labor, the influence of local unions extended far beyond the workplace and conveyed fundamental worldviews, making blue-collar unionists into loyal Democrats who saw the party as on the side of the working man. Today, Republican-leaning groups and outlooks have burgeoned among the kinds of voters who once would have been part
- [<h1>Are You Avoiding the News These Days? You’re Not Alone.</h1> <h2>How to Stay Informed Without Losing Your Sanity</h2> <h3>Benjamin Toff, Ruth Palmer, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2024/08/21/are-you-avoiding-the-news-these-days-youre-not-alone-how-to-stay-informed-without-losing-your-sanity-benjamin-toff-ruth-palmer-rasmus-kleis-nielsen/) - It is hardly news that many see reporting on current events as anxiety-inducing, soul-crushingly depressing, or worse. What is new are the growing numbers who now say they are actively avoiding it. Nearly four in ten people now say they sometimes or often engage in “news avoidance.” That number has grown nine percentage points since
- [<h1>How to Depolarize Your Home, Workplace, and Community</h1> <h2>A Listicle on <i>The Way Out</i></h2> <h3>Peter T. Coleman</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2024/08/28/how-to-depolarize-your-home-workplace-and-community-a-listicle-on-the-way-out-peter-t-coleman/) - Peter T. Coleman’s book The Way Out: How to Overcome Toxic Polarization offers a comprehensive guide to addressing and mitigating the deep political and social divides that characterize contemporary society. Coleman, a conflict resolution expert, outlines several actionable steps based on scientific principles and practical wisdom:See the Way OutColeman emphasizes the importance of recognizing that a
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- [<h1>Claudia Leeb on <i>Contesting the Far Right</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2024/10/17/claudia-leeb-on-contesting-the-far-right/) - In Contesting the Far Right: A Psychoanalytic and Feminist Critical Theory Approach, Claudia Leeb argues that psychoanalytic and feminist critical theory illuminate how economic and psychological factors interact to produce an extreme political shift to the far right. She examines right-wing recruitment tactics in the United States and Austria, where people discontented with the status
- [<h1>Election Talking Points vs. Immigration Realities</h1> <h2>Ernesto Castañeda and Carina Cione</h2>](https://cupblog.org/2024/09/23/election-talking-points-vs-immigration-realities-ernesto-castaneda-and-carina-cione/) - In Immigration Realities: Challenging Common Misperceptions, Ernesto Castañeda and Carina Cione present evidence about the causes and effects of international migration. Each chapter debunks a frequently encountered claim and answers common questions from fresh perspectives with data and analyses from numerous disciplines and sources. The authors also provide context and information to understand debates around
- [<h1>Fourteen Books for Understanding Challenges to Freedom and Democracy</h1>](https://cupblog.org/2024/12/09/fourteen-books-for-understanding-challenges-to-freedom-and-democracy/) - University presses play a vital role in publishing works that deepen our understanding of current events, particularly in areas such as democracy and the challenges it faces. By publishing books that foster critical scholarship and diverse philosophical perspectives, Columbia University Press contributes to the ongoing dialogue about political systems, civic engagement, and the forces that
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- [<h1>Why AI Could Not Have Written <i>Overdetermined</i> <h2>Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan</h2>](https://cupblog.org/2025/08/22/why-ai-could-not-have-written-overdetermined-ragini-tharoor-srinivasan/) - Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan argues teaching-based literary criticism is uniquely human work that AI cannot replicate, making classroom experience irreplaceable.
- [<h1>Vivian Arimany on Translating Juliana Rozo’s <i>Archaeology of a Swan</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2025/08/19/vivian-arimany-on-translating-juliana-rozos-archaeology-of-a-swan/) - Vivian Arimany reflects on translating Juliana Rozo's Archaeology of a Swan, a work blending poetry, visual art by Hilma af Klint, and Colombian memories.
- [<h1>Lauren Taylor on <i>Narrative Therapy with Older Adults</i><h1>](https://cupblog.org/2025/08/14/lauren-taylor-on-narrative-therapy-with-older-adults/) - Lauren Taylor discusses the benefits of narrative therapy in different cultures, in research, and in the field.
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- [<h1>Illuminating <i>The Running Flame</i></h1> <h2>Fang Fang in Conversation with Michael Berry</h2>](https://cupblog.org/2025/03/10/illuminating-the-running-flame-fang-fang-in-conversation-with-michael-berry/) - Translator Michael Berry revisits the The Running Flame with author Fang Fang, who reflects on her work and the place of women in contemporary China.
- [<h1>Zeina Sleiman on <i>Where the Jasmine Blooms</i></h>](https://cupblog.org/2025/07/29/zeina-sleiman-on-where-the-jasmine-blooms/) - In this Q&A, the Palestinian Canadian writer Zeina Sleiman reflects on her relationship to places and the inspiration behind the novel.
- [<h1> Michael Wachtel on <i>Viacheslav Ivanov</i></h>](https://cupblog.org/2025/07/24/michael-wachtel-on-viacheslav-ivanov/) - Michael Wachtel offers a deeper understanding of Viacheslav Ivanov character, his influential relationships, and the historical context that shaped his life.
- [<h1>Maciej Ryś in Conversation with Renee Bales About <i>Sparks for Innovation</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2025/07/15/maciej-rys-in-conversation-with-renee-bales-about-sparks-for-innovation/) - Maciej Ry and Renee Bales discuss the unique applications of hackathons, the author’s research process, and Sparks for Innovation.
- [<h1>Vijay Selvam in Conversation with Renee Bales About <i>Principles of Bitcoin</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2025/07/18/vijay-selvam-in-conversation-with-renee-bales-about-principles-of-bitcoin/) - In this interview, Vijay Selvam and Renee Bales discuss the benefits of Bitcoin within its economic, political, and philosophical contexts, the challenge of making Bitcoin accessible, and its future.
- [<h1>Emilio J. Castilla in Conversation with Renee Bales About <i>The Meritocracy Paradox</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2025/07/22/emilio-j-castilla-in-conversation-with-renee-bales-about-the-meritocracy-paradox/) - In this interview, Emilio J. Castilla and Renee Bales discuss the strengths and limitations of meritocracy, the state of merit-based evaluation practices today, and more.
- [<h1>Setting the Stage</h1> <h2>Shalini Kudinoor</h2>](https://cupblog.org/2025/07/08/setting-the-stage-shalini-kudinoor/) - Shalini Kudinoor thinks about the power of storytelling as a force for both memory and transformation in this AUP RoundUP about Pride Month and Juneteenth.
- [<h1>Jamie Brownlee and Kevin Walby on <i>Psychedelic Capitalism</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2025/07/01/jamie-brownlee-and-kevin-walby-on-psychedelic-capitalism/) - Jamie Brownlee and Kevin Walby discuss their concerns that psychedelics are being appropriated and commodified by institutional power structures.
- [<h1>Csaba Szabo in Conversation with Robyn Massey About <i>Unreliable</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2025/02/18/csaba-szabo-in-conversation-with-robyn-massey-about-unreliable/) - All too often, issues encountered in today’s scientific publication process can profoundly shape research integrity. Reproducibility—the ability to replicate experimental findings—is essential to scientific methodology. Yet an alarming proportion of biomedical research papers struggle with independent verification.In Unreliable: Bias, Fraud, and the Reproducibility Crisis in Biomedical Research, Csaba Szabo explains how these challenges stem from
- [<h1>Four Things I Found in an Adult Filmmaker’s Storage Unit</h1> <h2>(#4 Left Me Shook)</h2> <h3>Rob King</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2025/05/12/four-things-i-found-in-an-adult-filmmakers-storage-unit-4-left-me-shook-rob-king/) - Rob King reveals how he became the custodian of his own modest “Radley Metzger Collection” while researching Man of Taste.
- [The Philippine Revolution Constructs ‘Asia’ and Civilization from the Periphery <br><h3>By Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz</h3></br>](https://cupblog.org/2020/05/26/the-philippine-revolution-constructs-asia-and-civilization-from-the-periphery-by-nicole-cuunjieng-aboitiz/) - The turn of the twentieth century is an important moment globally because of the changes in technology, sovereignty, human exchange, and ideology that it wrought. It is also a turning point for a more concentrated area: Southeast Asia—with imperial subjugation and incorporation hardening empires and firing local resistance across the entire region. The Philippines is
- [Asian and American/Asian or American: Predicament and Possibilities of Being an Asian American <br><h3>Vishakha N. Desai</h3></br>](https://cupblog.org/2021/05/27/asian-and-american-asian-or-american-predicament-and-possibilities-of-being-an-asian-american-by-vishakha-n-desai/) - The first time I personally identified with the term Asian American was in 1993, when I had the opportunity to organize the first major exhibition of Asian American art exploring the issues of multicultural identities at the Asia Society, Asia/America: Identities in Contemporary Asian American Art. Designed to explore the experiences of cultural “in-betweenness” as
- [Now More Than Ever, We Must Listen to Mothers’ Plight <br><h3>Shani Orgad</h3></br>](https://cupblog.org/2021/05/09/now-more-than-ever-we-must-listen-to-mothers-plight-by-shani-orgad/) - A variety of data shows that COVID-19 has had a catastrophic effect on women’s employment, and that it has been particularly punitive for mothers’ paid labor. Millions of mothers, in the United States and elsewhere, have been forced to cut their working hours, scale back their careers, and leave the workforce because of caring responsibilities.
- [<h1>On Motherhood and the Literary Life<h1> <h2>Emily Hodgson Anderson<h2>](https://cupblog.org/2025/03/17/on-motherhood-and-the-literary-life-emily-hodgson-anderson/) - Emily Hodgson Anderson explores the complex relationship between motherhood and writing, using Doris Lessing's experiences as a focal point.
- [<h1>In Memoriam: Gianni Vattimo (1936-2023)</h1><h2>Wendy Lochner</h2>](https://cupblog.org/2023/09/21/in-memoriam-gianni-vattimo-1936-2023wendy-lochner/) - No other philosopher has played a more integral role in the development of Columbia University Press’s list than Gianni Vattimo. He has been part of my program since its inception and even earlier—since I first joined the Press in 2001, hired to edit not philosophy but religion titles. His book After Christianity, his first translation
- [In Memory of Joseph Buttigieg, Translator of the Complete Prison Notebooks of Antonio Gramsci](https://cupblog.org/2019/02/11/in-memory-of-joseph-buttigieg-translator-of-the-complete-prison-notebooks-of-antonio-gramsci/) - Photo by Matt Cashore/University of Notre Dame“But to my mind his life’s work was as a Gramsci scholar; he was selflessly devoted to bringing into English the wide-ranging, influential, and absorbing writings of an extraordinary intellectual of the last century.”~Jennifer Crewe, Director of Columbia University PressJoseph Buttigieg passed away on January 27, 2019 at the
- [<h1>California’s Conservatorships:</h1><h2>Why Britney Spears and Not the Most Vulnerable</h2><h3>Alex V. Barnard</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2024/01/02/californias-conservatorshipswhy-britney-spears-and-not-the-most-vulnerablealex-v-barnard/) - As estimated 1.3 million Americans are living under conservatorships (also known as guardianships): legal arrangements by which a judge takes decision-making power away from a person with disabilities and gives it to a third party. A conservator then determines where a person lives, how to spend their money, and what medical treatment they receive. Despite
- [Margo DeMello: Why Human-Animal Studies?](https://cupblog.org/2012/10/17/margo-demello-why-human-animal-studies-2/) - Margo DeMello offers an explanation of the field of human-animal studies and explains why it is important to study human-animal interactions.
- [<h1>Carlo Acevedo and Kelsi Vanada on Writing and <i>Translating Day’s Fortune/Fortuna del día</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2025/04/08/carlo-acevedo-and-kelsi-vanada-on-writing-and-translating-days-fortune-fortuna-del-dia/) - Kelsi Vanada and Carlo Acevedo offer insight into the writing and translation process and the value this bilingual edition brings to U.S. Spanish speakers.
- [<h1>John Timothy Wixted on <i>The Poetry of Yuan Haowen</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2025/04/16/john-timothy-wixted-on-the-poetry-of-yuan-haowen/) - John Timothy Wixted explores the themes of loss and cultural legacy in Yuan Haowen's (1190–1257) poetry—one of the greatest poets in Chinese literary history.
- [Five Charts You’ve Never Used but Should <br><h3>By Jonathan Schwabish</h3><br>](https://cupblog.org/2021/01/04/five-charts-youve-never-used-but-should-by-jonathan-schwabish/) - “An excellent primer for anyone who wants to display quantitative information clearly and powerfully.”—Robert B. Reich, Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy, University of California at Berkeley, and former U.S. secretary of labor Today’s AEA featured post comes to use from Jonathan Schwabish, author of Better Data Visualizations: A Guide for Scholars, Researchers, and Wonks. Schwabish
- [<h1>Lucina Schell on “Sangre” by Mercedes Roffé</h1>](https://cupblog.org/2024/10/01/lucina-schell-on-sangre-by-mercedes-roffe/) - Lucina Schell reflects on “Sangre” (“Blood”), a five-line poem by Argentine poet Mercedes Roffé that carries the emotional weight of a nation’s unresolved past.
- [<h1>Hollywood’s Climate Crisis</h1> <h2>A Very Short History</h2> <h3>Brian Jacobson</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2025/04/02/hollywoods-climate-crisis-a-very-short-history-brian-jacobson/) - Brian Jacobson highlights how Hollywood's financialization and resource dependency have exacerbated ecological crises.
- [<h1>Miranda Martin on Stepping UP for Climate Science</h1> <h2>Understanding Paleoclimatology, Climate Models, and Urban Planning</h2>](https://cupblog.org/2024/11/13/miranda-martin-on-stepping-up-for-climate-science-understanding-paleoclimatology-climate-models-and-urban-planning/) - The climate crisis is a complex problem that affects all of us in myriad ways and requires a range of actions across governments, industries, and disciplines.
- [New Series in American-East Asian Relations](https://cupblog.org/2013/10/09/new-series-in-american-east-asian-relations/) - Columbia University Press is pleased to announce the creation of the Nancy Bernkopf Tucker and Warren I. Cohen Books on American–East Asian Relations series. The series is named after noted diplomatic historians and Columbia University Press authors Nancy Bernkopf Tucker (1948–2012) and Warren I. Cohen.The goals of the series are to publish high-quality, rigorously researched
- [Male Sex Work Throughout History](https://cupblog.org/2014/09/17/male-sex-work-throught-history/) - This blog post offers a look at Male Sex Work and Society sharing 8 facts about male sex work history, from Roman concubines to Depression-era hustlers.
- [<h1>Rumi Yasutake on <i>The Feminist Pacific</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2024/05/23/rumi-yasutake-on-the-feminist-pacific/) - Rumi Yasutake discusses The Feminist Pacific and the emergence of pan-Pacific feminism through the interactions of diverse women’s movements in Hawai‘i.
- [<h1>Recovery Without End</h1> <h2>Insights From a Medieval Mystic?</h2> <h3>Hannah Lucas</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2025/03/24/recovery-without-end-insights-from-a-medieval-mystic-hannah-lucas/) - Hannah Lucas explores the mystical experiences of Julian of Norwich during her illness in the 14th century and challenges modern wellness culture.
- [<h1>Why Yogic Perception Matters<h1> <h2>Jed Forman</h2>](https://cupblog.org/2025/02/25/why-yogic-perception-matters-jed-forman/) - Jed Forman explores the concept of yogic perception, emphasizing its relevance to contemporary global challenges. He argues that understanding yogic perception can disrupt entrenched assumptions about consciousness and reality, fostering mutual intelligibility and social equity.
- [<h1>Seven Must-Read Books for Women’s History Month 2025</h1>](https://cupblog.org/2025/03/03/seven-must-read-books-for-womens-history-month-2025/) - Each March, we come together to honor and recognize the legacy of women in history, society, and culture and to reflect on the ongoing fight for gender equality. This year’s theme for Women’s History Month, “Moving Forward Together! Women Educating and Inspiring Generations,” celebrates the women who dedicated their lives to education, mentorship, and leadership.
- [<h1>Lawrence Schimel on Translating <i>Music for Bamboo Strings</i> by Carlos Pintado</h1>](https://cupblog.org/2024/09/24/lawrence-schimel-on-translating-music-for-bamboo-strings-by-carlos-pintado/) - In “The Challenge,” Cuban-American poet Carlos Pintado writes, in English translation by Lawrence Schimel:The distance between the rat and myself is minimal.She looks at the house from her smallness; I look at thehouse from my majesty. …… The house, I imagine, can’t stand suchlassitude, so much unsustainable stillness. It is supposedthat between the rat and
- [<h1>How Women Steered Early Cancer Awareness Campaigns <h3>Elaine Schattner<h3></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2023/03/07/how-women-steered-early-cancer-awareness-campaigns-elaine-schattner/) - Elaine Schattner, author of From Whispers to Shouts, discusses how women laid the groundwork for modern cancer awareness through grassroots efforts, fundraising, disseminating vital information, and challenging the stigma surrounding the disease. She also highlights the role of organizations like the American Society for the Control of Cancer (ASCC).
- [Sam Jackson on <i>Oath Keepers</i>](https://cupblog.org/2020/09/13/qa-sam-jackson-on-oath-keepers/) - Sam Jackson discusses the formation and purpose of the Oath Keepers, an influential antigovernment group and a significant player in the broader American militia movement that advocates for the defense of constitutional rights against perceived threats from the federal government. Jackson highlights how the Oath Keepers draw on historical context to justify their actions and how their controversial actions underscore their confrontational stance and commitment to their cause. Despite their claims of rejecting racism, the Oath Keepers face ideological scrutiny due to their connections with far-right ideologies.
- [<h1>A Historical Roadmap to Understanding the United States’ Relationship with China</h1> <h2>Thomas M. Larkin</h2>](https://cupblog.org/2024/11/27/a-historical-roadmap-to-understanding-the-united-states-relationship-with-china-thomas-m-larkin/) - How does one make sense of the relationship between the United States and China?Where should one even begin?China and the United States are the world’s two largest economies by a significant margin, and entangled ones at that. A cursory glance at the current news cycle suggests that despite economic codependency, geopolitical rivalry dominates their entanglement.
- [<h1>Rob Lalka on How Big Tech Turned Profits Into Power</h1>](https://cupblog.org/2025/02/13/rob-lalka-on-how-big-tech-turned-profits-into-power/) - Rob Lalka’s new book, The Venture Alchemists: How Big Tech Turned Profits Into Power, reexamines the familiar stories of America’s most famous entrepreneurs, uncovering the profound societal impacts of their decisions—and the unseen trade-offs that shape our world. Today, the influential leaders of the “Tech Right” have formed what the New York Times called “one
- [<h1>The Life and Deaths of Illicit Gold in South Africa:<h1> <h2>A Global Story</h2> <h3>Rosalind C. Morris</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2025/02/15/the-life-and-deaths-of-illicit-gold-in-south-africa-a-global-story-rosalind-c-morris/) - Informal miners in South Africa sometimes explain an underground accident by saying that a witch has thrown death in the hole. Death emerged in mid-January, in the partially decomposed bodies of 78 informal miners brought to the surface in the town of Stilfontein. Over the previous weeks, more than 1,500 hunger-weakened miners had exited two
- [<h1>10 Must-Read Books for Black History Month 2025</h1>](https://cupblog.org/2025/02/08/10-must-read-books-for-black-history-month-2025/) - Understanding the impact of Black labor is key to understanding Black history and culture, as well as its influence on the United States. This year’s Black History Month theme—African Americans and Labor, free, unfree, vocational, and voluntary—explores how work has shaped Black societies. From capitalism and welfare to education and activism, the books listed below
- [<h1>A Hypothetic Interview: When the Artist Considers Himself<h1> <h2>James B. Haile III</h2>](https://cupblog.org/2025/02/01/a-hypothetic-interview-when-the-artist-considers-himself-james-b-haile-iii/) - The Dark Delight of Being Strange is an experimental work combining the elements of Black speculative fiction, Afro-surrealism, Black philosophy, and Black studies to think through the meaning and implications of Black freedom. Dark Delight invites us to imagine and reimagine time, space, and place. In doing so, Dark Delight also invites us to imagine
- [<h1>John Wiens on <i>Becoming an Ecologist</i></h>](https://cupblog.org/2025/01/31/john-wiens-on-becoming-an-ecologist/) - Initially, Becoming an Ecologist: Career Pathways in Science was meant to be a memoir that mapped my career journey, tracking the changes in study topics, locations, and even disciplines through the years. I thought a record of my path—what I did, where and when—might be of general interest. As I began to write, however, I
- [<h1>Six Animal Tracks to Look for on Your Next Hike</h1> <h2>Sharman Apt Russell</h2>](https://cupblog.org/2024/12/04/six-animal-tracks-to-look-for-on-your-next-hike-sharman-apt-russell/) - Imagine walking along a forested mountain trail and coming across footprints impressed in the dirt. You think, “Do they belong to a fox, a bobcat, or a coyote? What animal fits these marks on the ground?” Combining lyrical memoir with an introduction to wildlife tracking, What Walks This Way: Discovering the Wildlife Around Us Through
- [<h1>Tessa Hill on <i>At Every Depth</i></h2>](https://cupblog.org/2025/01/28/tessa-hill-on-at-every-depth/) - Beneath the waves and along the coasts of the world’s oceans, climate change and environmental degradation have spurred the most radical transformations in human history. In At Every Depth, the oceanographer Tessa Hill and the science journalist Eric Simons bring together the varied viewpoints of scientists, coastal community members, Indigenous people, shellfish farmers, fisheries workers,
- [Ellen Prager and Dave Jones Encourage Readers, “Please, Ask Questions!”](https://cupblog.org/2025/01/27/ellen-prager-and-dave-jones-encourage-readers-please-ask-questions/) - From toddlers asking why they can’t eat the yellow snow to an adult inquiring if their coastal home will be underwater in a few years due to sea level rise, asking questions is essential to learning, to science, and to society.Asking questions is the doorway to understanding and critical thinking about information. Where does the
- [<h1>Robert E. Kirsch and Emily Ray on <i>Be Prepared</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2025/01/22/robert-e-kirsch-and-emily-ray-on-be-prepared/) - How does someone escape the solitary fate of life in the bunker to instead meet collective problems together with their community? In Be Prepared: Doomsday Prepping in the United States, coauthors Robert Kirsch and Emily Ray trace political and cultural antecedents of the contemporary doomsday prepping movement in the United States and develop a theory
- [<h1>Is It Possible to Have a Disciplined White House with an Undisciplined President?</h1> <h2>Matthew N. Beckmann</h2>](https://cupblog.org/2025/01/20/is-it-possible-to-have-a-disciplined-white-house-with-an-undisciplined-president-matthew-n-beckmann/) - Donald Trump recently named Susie Wiles as his incoming White House chief of staff. Wiles proved herself a focused, organized campaign manager, and she intends to bring that manner and method to the White House: “My team and I will not tolerate backbiting, second-guessing inappropriately, or drama.”No doubt, White House discipline is never easy to
- [<h1>Lauren Coyle Rosen and Hannibal Lokumbe on Music, Life, and Liberation</h1>](https://cupblog.org/2025/01/20/lauren-coyle-rosen-and-hannibal-lokumbe-on-music-life-and-liberation/) - For Hannibal Lokumbe, music is a profound source of spiritual liberation. A pathbreaking orchestral composer and visionary jazz musician, Lokumbe composes resonant works that give voice to the freedom struggle of the African diaspora, the broader African American experience, Indigenous histories, and humanity. In this exchange, coauthors Lauren Coyle Rosen and Hannibal Lokumbe reflect upon
- [<h1>The Presidents’ Dreams<h1> <h2>From Chapter Six of <i>Unnatural Disasters</i><h2> <h3>Gonzalo Lizarralde</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2021/09/22/the-presidents-dreams-from-chapter-six-of-unnatural-disasters-gonzalo-lizarralde/) - “If we do this housing properly,” said former U.S. president Bill Clinton in 2011, “it will lead to whole new industries being started in Haiti, creating thousands and thousands of new jobs and permanent housing.”1 Clinton was speaking from Zoranjé, a mostly inhabited flood plain about 7 kilometers north of Port-au-Prince. At his side was Michel
- [<h1>Q&A: Natural Disaster Recovery Experts on Responding to COVID-19</h1>](https://cupblog.org/2020/08/24/q-a-natural-disaster-recovery-experts-on-responding-to-covid-19/) - COVID-19 has presented new challenges for leaders at all levels, forcing many to reconsider their emergency management processes. What are the impacts of the current public health crisis on disaster preparedness and community planning, and what will it take to build a more equitable and resilient future? We sat down with Laurie Johnson and Robert
- [<h1>Why It Takes More Than Stockpiling Supplies and First Responder Training to Prepare for Megadisasters <h1><h2>Jeff Schlegelmilch</h2>](https://cupblog.org/2020/07/29/why-it-takes-more-than-stockpiling-supplies-and-first-responder-training-to-prepare-for-megadisasters-by-jeff-schlegelmilch/) - “This timely book both looks ahead to the mega-disasters on the horizon—disasters that tank economies, shred infrastructure, and take lives—and outlines how communities can start preparing now. It is an essential guide for policy makers and concerned citizens alike who want to build a better future.” ~Alice C. Hill, former senior director of resilience policy
- [<h1>Mike Harmon on <i>The Financial Restructuring Tool Set</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2024/12/16/mike-harmon-on-the-financial-restructuring-tool-set/) - Many companies globally are saddled with excessive levels of debt. This can lead to financial distress. In The Financial Restructuring Tool Set: How to Fix Your Broken Balance Sheet, Mike Harmon provides an indispensable guide tailored for executives, business owners, boards of directors, creditors, advisors, and investors grappling with financial distress. He equips stakeholders with
- [<h1>Why Western Policy Makers Should Worry About Sanctions Inoculation</h1> <h2>Agathe Demarais</h2>](https://cupblog.org/2024/11/18/why-western-policy-makers-should-worry-about-sanctions-inoculation-agathe-demarais/) - In 1796 the British scientist Edward Jenner had a seemingly outlandish theory: he believed that catching mild cowpox rendered one immune to deadly smallpox. Jenner did not shy away from testing his assumption. He exposed an eight-year-old boy to cowpox scabs before putting him in contact with strains of smallpox. The child was fine. The
- [<h1>Sonia Sulaiman on <i>Thyme Travellers</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2024/09/05/sonia-sulaiman-on-thyme-travellers/) - Sonia Sulaiman is the editor of Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction. She primarily writes short stories and fantasy inspired by Palestinian folklore and history. Her work has appeared in several genre magazines such as Fantasy Magazine, FIYAH, Seize the Press, and PodCastle, as well as in anthologies like Xenocultivars: Stories of Queer
- [<h1>Beyond Repair:</h1> <h2> The Psychic Life of Reparation</h2> <h3>Carolyn Laubender</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2024/06/12/beyond-repair-the-psychic-life-of-reparation-carolyn-laubender/) - Ten years ago, on June 15, 2014, Ta-Nehishi Coates published his watershed Atlantic article, “The Case for Reparations.” An immediate cultural flashpoint, Coates’s piece sought to legitimize the demand for racial reparation in the contemporary United States by documenting how post-emancipation policy and legislation (such as the National Housing Act of 1934 and the G.I.
- [<h1>Melissa Deckman on <i>The Politics of Gen Z</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2024/10/10/melissa-deckman-on-the-politics-of-gen-z/) - Our nation’s youngest voters are increasingly spearheading progressive activism. In The Politics of Gen Z: How the Youngest Voters Will Shape Our Democracy, Melissa Deckman explores the world of youth-led progressive organizing, highlighting the crucial importance of gender and sexuality. The book takes readers inside Gen Z’s fight for a more inclusive and just future,
- [<h1>Jenny Burton on Translating an Excerpt from Ansilta Grizas’s <i>Un temporal</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2024/09/19/jenny-burton-on-translating-an-excerpt-from-ansilta-grizass-un-temporal/) - An excerpt of the Ansilta Grizas’s 103-page memoir Un temporal, originally published in Spanish by Ed. Entropía, was included in the anthology titled Constellation: Latin American Voices in Translation, recently published by Sundial House, a distribution partner of Columbia University Press. Within it, Grizas recounts her personal experience grieving the loss of her still-living father
- [<h1>Santiago Zabala on <i>The Greatest Emergency</i></h1> <h2>An Exhibition Based on <i>Why Only Art Can Save Us</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2024/09/30/santiago-zabala-on-the-greatest-emergency-an-exhibition-based-on-why-only-art-can-save-us/) - Seven years after the publication of Santiago Zabala’s Why Only Art Can Save Us: Aesthetics and the Absence of Emergency, the prestigious cultural institution Círculo de Bellas Artes of Madrid will host an exhibition based on Zabala’s aesthetic theory. The exhibition, La mayor emergencia (The Greatest Emergency), will open October 24, 2024 and run through
- [<h1>Was January 6, 2021, a Rehearsal for a Greater Threat to American Democracy?</h1> <h2>Brigitte L. Nacos, Yaeli Bloch-Elkon, and Robert Y. Shapiro</h2>](https://cupblog.org/2024/09/25/was-january-6-2021-a-rehearsal-for-a-greater-threat-to-american-democracy-brigitte-l-nacos-yaeli-bloch-elkon-and-robert-y-shapiro/) - As a presidential candidate and the president of the United States, Donald Trump played a starring role in bringing hate speech, violent threats, and actual violence into the political mainstream. As a former president and once again a presidential candidate, he has glorified the criminally convicted participants in the violent breach of the U.S. Capitol
- [Book Excerpt! <i>The Gang Paradox: Inequalities and Miracles on the U.S. -Mexico Border</i> (introduction)](https://cupblog.org/2018/11/28/book-excerpt-the-gang-paradox-inequalities-and-miracles-on-the-u-s-mexico-border-introduction/) - “Anchored in a critical revisionist history of the Southwest borderlands and the social construction of 'the Hispanic gang,' The Gang Paradox offers a multidisciplinary analysis of the origins, composition, and cultural significance of gangs as a site of group identity. ” ~ Cynthia Bejarano, New Mexico State University, author of ¿Qué Onda? Urban Youth Culture and Border Identity •
- [Yemayá, Water Logics, and Archives of Conjure in Afrolatinx Cultures <br><h3>By Solimar Otero</br></h3>](https://cupblog.org/2020/04/30/yemaya-water-logics-and-archives-of-conjure-in-afrolatinx-cultures-by-solimar-otero/) - “A poetic, fluid, and compelling book. By producing an 'archive of conjure' pieced together through interwoven elements of ethnography, literature, archival notations, bolero music, poetry, and other Afrolatinx inspirations, Solimar Otero provides humanities scholarship with a new, transdisciplinary technique and approach. This is a powerful intervention and must read!” ~Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús, author of
- [Book Excerpt! <i>Archives of Conjure</i>, by Somilar Otero (introduction)](https://cupblog.org/2020/05/01/book-excerpt-archives-of-conjure-by-somilar-otero-introduction/) - “Going beyond academic analysis and theorizing, Archives of Conjure highlights the power of ethnography that is an act of resistance and empowerment as well as sustenance for the researcher and the community. Otero’s own life experiences along with the experiences of those she works with—both in the spirit world and in the physical world—become part
- [<h1>Why Democrats Need to Show Up in Rural America</h1> <h3>Nicholas Jacobs and Daniel Shea</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2023/12/20/why-democrats-need-to-show-up-in-rural-america-nicholas-jacobs-and-daniel-shea/) - The widening gulf between rural and urban America is becoming the most serious political divide of our day. Support for Democrats, up and down the ballot, has plummeted throughout the countryside. Rural Americans are supposedly bigots, culturally backward, lazy, scared of the future, and radical. But is it that simple? Is the country splintering between
- [<h1>Three Myths About Presidential Campaign Visits:<h1> <h2>From Joe Biden’s Basement to Donald Trump’s Rallies</h2> <h3>Christopher J. Devine<h3>](https://cupblog.org/2024/01/30/three-myths-about-presidential-campaign-visits-from-joe-bidens-basement-to-donald-trumps-rallies-christopher-j-devine/) - Did Joe Biden spend the 2020 campaign hiding in his basement? Did Hillary Clinton cost herself the 2016 election by not bothering to visit Wisconsin? Did Donald Trump’s rallies fire up his base and win him the presidency?To many political junkies, the answers seem painfully obvious: Yes, yes, yes—of course! Ergo, the obvious lesson for
- [<h1>Janet Poole on Translating Ch’oe Myŏngik</h1>](https://cupblog.org/2024/09/17/janet-poole-on-translating-choe-myongik/) - When Ch’oe Myŏngik was writing short fiction in the mid-twentieth century, he was known as a master of the detail. While other Korean writers of the time were cranking out dozens of pages of writing per week, often for serialised daily newspaper novels whose fees could amount to a living at that time, Ch’oe’s slow
- [<h1>Sheela Mahadevan on Translating Ari Gautier’s <i>Lakshmi’s Secret Diary</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2024/09/10/sheela-mahadevan-on-translating-ari-gautiers-lakshmis-secret-diary/) - L akshmi’s Secret Diary is a translation of contemporary Indian Francophone novel Carnet secret de Lakshmi by writer and poet Ari Gautier, who is from Pondicherry, a city in South India that was once the capital of French India. The book is set in Pondicherry and is narrated by Lakshmi, the temple elephant, who seeks
- [<h1>Tiffany Troy on Translating Santiago Acosta</h1>](https://cupblog.org/2024/09/06/tiffany-troy-on-translating-santiago-acosta/) - As a literary critic, I often begin my interviews with: “What is the act of literary translation to you?” Translators often respond with some version of the sentiment that translation is an act of radical activism. That is all well and true, but at its most fundamental level, literary translation is much simpler. In a
- [<h1>Christina MacSweeney on <i>The Company</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2024/08/27/christina-macsweeney-on-the-company/) - If asked, I describe myself as a literary translator. But what exactly does the adjective “literary” mean? How is what I do different from what, for example, a legal translator does? The simplistic response is that legal translation has a specific lexicon and aims for clarity: metaphor is not something I would expect to find
- [<h1>Ilze Duarte on Marília Arnaud and <i>The Book of Affects</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2024/08/20/ilze-duarte-on-marilia-arnaud-and-the-book-of-affects/) - Marilia Arnaud, author of O livro dos afetos (The Book of Affects), was born in Campina Grande, in the northeastern state of Paraíba, and lives in João Pessoa, the capital city. Arnaud first became known in Brazil as a short story writer, with her stories earning prize after prize in Paraíba. Arnaud would go on
- [<h1>Fiona Bell on <i>The Talnikov Family</i><h1>](https://cupblog.org/2024/08/08/fiona-bell-on-the-talnikov-family/) - From Anna Karenina to The Brothers Karamazov, Russian literature of the nineteenth century is perhaps best known for the family novel. In 1848, as if anticipating the spate of profamily novels to come, Avdotya Panaeva penned a novel that was decidedly anti-. The Talnikov Family was suppressed by the censor for being “cynical” and “undermining
- [<h1>Language Haunted by Sex?</h1> <h2>Armine Kotin Mortimer</h2>](https://cupblog.org/2024/08/13/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.
- [<h1>Celebrate Book Lovers Day with Global Reads</h1> <h2>Raina Mansfield</h2>](https://cupblog.org/2024/08/09/celebrate-book-lovers-day-with-global-reads-raina-mansfield/) - This Book Lovers Day, immerse yourself in the wonder of reading by exploring new titles. We’re excited to share some standout collections and collaborations that highlight literature’s diversity and richness. From powerful narratives by Roseway Publishing to the lyrical poetry of Sundial House, plus eye-opening Asian and Russian literature in translation, our catalog offers something
- [<h1>Kevin Hart on <i>Contemplation</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2024/08/06/kevin-hart-on-contemplation/) - Contemplation has fallen out of sight in recent decades. For centuries, it was a large part of Christianity, especially Catholicism and Orthodoxy, but since Vatican II (1962–1965) it has not been emphasized. How many times have you heard a homily or sermon on contemplation, or even prayer?The practice of contemplation is actually older than Christianity.
- [<h1>Why Historically Black Colleges and Universities Are Vital and Valuable to the U.S. Higher Education System</h1> <h3>James V. Koch and Omari H. Swinton</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2023/02/01/why-historically-black-colleges-and-universities-are-vital-and-valuable-to-the-u-s-higher-education-system-james-v-koch-and-omari-h-swinton/) - Are Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) “vital and valuable” to contemporary America? Absolutely. HBCUs capably fill a niche in higher education (and in society) that the typical American college or university either ignores or downplays. Many Americans, especially those who do not self-identify as Black, know little or nothing about HBCUs, perhaps because they
- [Joseph L. Graves and Alan Goodman in Conversation with Olivia Treynor on <i>Racism, Not Race</i>](https://cupblog.org/2022/02/02/joseph-l-graves-and-alan-goodman-in-conversation-with-olivia-treynor-on-racism-not-race/) - Joseph L. Graves and Alan Goodman’s new book, Racism, Not Race, breaks down crucial myths about race in a highly readable format. Dissecting everything from junk science on athletic ability to the real reasons different populations are more vulnerable to certain diseases, Graves and Goodman’s guide to dismantling biological myths about race is a needful
- [Reconceptualizing Justice for the Victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre <h3>Nicole Iturriaga</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2022/02/15/reconceptualizing-justice-for-the-victims-of-the-1921-tulsa-race-massacre-nicole-iturriaga/) - On January 11, 2022, Hughes Van Ellis turned 101 years old. He is quoted in the local Tulsa news as saying, “My birthday cake is sweet, but justice is sweeter.” He, along with Viola Ford Fletcher and Lessie Benningfield Randle, both 107, are the last living survivors of one of the most horrific instances of
- [<h1>Why History Lessons Are So Threatening to Those with Power</h1> <h3>Chana Teeger</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2024/07/24/why-history-lessons-are-so-threatening-to-those-with-power-chana-teeger/) - Erasure and denial of the past are not the only ways to suppress historical claims and reproduce privilege. Chana Teeger's research in two racially diverse South African schools shows how the past can be recalled while its legacies are ignored.
- [<h1>Michiko Suzuki on Decentering the Western Humanitarian Movement:</h1> <h2>Japanese Indigenous Humanitarianism (Jindō)</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2024/07/17/michiko-suzuki-on-decentering-the-western-humanitarian-movement-japanese-indigenous-humanitarianism-jindo/) - In this Q&A, Michiko Suzuki’s discusses Humanitarian Internationalism Under Empire. The book is the first English written research monograph about the history of the Japanese Red Cross movement.
- [<h1><i>An Impossible Friendship</i> and the Possibilities of Friendship in Israel/Palestine</h1> <h3>Sonja Mejcher-Atassi</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2024/07/10/an-impossible-friendship-and-the-possibilities-of-friendship-in-israel-palestine-sonja-mejcher-atassi/) - An Impossible Friendship invites us to glimpse alternative possibilities within and alongside the fraught history of Israel/Palestine.
- [<h1>Five Scientists with Disabilities Whom You Should Know</h1> <h3>Skylar Bayer and Gabi Serrato Marks</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2024/06/05/five-scientists-with-disabilities-whom-you-should-know-skylar-bayer-and-gabi-serrato-marks/) - In 2018, we (Skylar and Gabi) got together and decided that we would create a book with a diversity of stories about disability and medical conditions in STEM, help contributors tell their stories in their own voices, and provide representation for disabled scientists everywhere. The result was Uncharted: How Scientists Navigate Their Own Health, Research,
- [<h1>André Colomer, the Action of the Arts, and the Importance of Poetry</h1><h2>Oskar De Wolf</h2>](https://cupblog.org/2024/04/02/andre-colomer-the-action-of-the-arts-and-the-importance-of-poetryoskar-de-wolf/) - – An individualist anarchist? To the uninitiated, it may appear somewhat peculiar that an individualist anarchist is a part of poetry month at the Columbia University Press blog. Anarchism has a well-earned reputation for being a little cold, a little distant, nihilistic, and iconoclastic – all attitudes that don’t traditionally fare very well in poetry.
- [<h1>Hawai‘i’s Chinese and Cold War Politics</h1> <h3>Nancy E. Riley</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2024/05/28/hawaiis-chinese-and-cold-war-politics-nancy-e-riley/) - Hawai‘i has been in the orbit of the United States since at least the mid nineteenth century, but it was after World War II, as the United States engaged in Cold War with the USSR, that Hawai‘i became particularly important. Hawai‘i’s is a complex story with many parts, and Chinese experience is an important touchstone
- [<h1>15 Must-Read Books for Pride Month 2023</h1>](https://cupblog.org/2023/06/14/15-must-read-books-for-pride-month-2023/) - Every June, we come together to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community and carry forward the legacy of the 1969 Stonewall Riots. These 15 books both provide insight into the enduring challenges faced by members of the LGBTQ+ community and explore the beauty and joy found in difference through analyses of queer art, literature, love, sex, and
- [<h1>Ten Must-Read Books for Women in Translation Month 2023</h1>](https://cupblog.org/2023/08/03/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 started Women in Translation Month—to share great books by woman authors with an English-reading audience.
- [<h1>Eleven Must-Read Books for Translation Month 2023</h1>](https://cupblog.org/2023/09/22/eleven-must-read-books-for-translation-month-2023/) - September marks National Translation Month, a time to appreciate literature penned in various languages and recognize the intricate art of translating texts into new languages while preserving their essence, tone, and flair. Translators act as gateways, granting us access to global writing that might remain undiscovered otherwise. The books on this list showcase the skill
- [<h1>Eunice Rodríguez Ferguson in Conversation with Hanna Askarpour about Sundial House</h1>](https://cupblog.org/2023/09/25/eunice-rodriguez-ferguson-in-conversation-with-hanna-askarpour-about-sundial-house/) - In May, an exciting collaboration unfolded between Columbia University Press and Sundial House, a publishing house founded in the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures at Columbia University. Their mission is to promote and showcase the voices of Latin American, Iberian, Latinx, and Hispanic Caribbean authors, both in their original languages and in English.
- [<h1>15 Must-Read Books for Black History Month 2024</h1>](https://cupblog.org/2024/02/09/15-must-read-books-for-black-history-month-2024/) - This month, we come together to celebrate the achievements of African Americans and to recognize their roles in shaping U.S. history and culture. This year, we invite you on a journey of discovery through these rich narratives and scholarly works.Our list ranges from The Sisterhood, which describes the seminal gatherings of icons like Toni Morrison,
- [<h1>The Rip Current Survival Guide</h1> <h3>Rob Brander</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2024/05/22/the-rip-current-survival-guide-rob-brander/) - The beach. There’s a lot wrapped up in those two words. To some, beaches are associated with the joys of a yearly vacation, but for others they can evoke a scary memory of being caught in a rip current. In Dr. Rip’s Essential Beach Book, beach scientist Rob Brander brings the splendor of beaches to
- [<h1>Eye of the Beholder:</h1> <h2>Perception of Art and the Brain</h2> <h3>Eric R. Kandel</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2024/05/29/eye-of-the-beholder-perception-of-art-and-the-brain-eric-r-kandel/) - Art is not complete without the perceptual and emotional involvement of the viewer—that is, without our response to it. As a neuroscientist and a lover of art, I am fascinated by this response, which results from the interaction of two kinds of unconscious processes in our brain: the innate, universal processes related to sensory perception
- [<h>Natalie Foley in Conversation with Robyn Massey on <i>The Experimentation Field Book</i></h>](https://cupblog.org/2024/05/15/natalie-foley-in-conversation-with-robyn-massey-on-the-experimentation-field-book/) - Organizations place great value on innovation. Yet to achieve innovation—whether via new products, services, or strategies—experimentation is key. Indeed, experimentation is the link between generating new ideas and putting them into practice. On the face of it, this sounds straightforward. In reality, however, there is a shortage of actionable guidance on how to design and
- [<h1>Benjamin C. Alamar on the second edition of <i>Sports Analytics</i></h>](https://cupblog.org/2024/05/08/benjamin-c-alamar-on-the-second-edition-of-sports-analytics/) - Data and analytics have the potential to provide sports organizations with competitive advantages both on and off the field. But how are organizations incorporating analytics into their decision-making process? What challenges do they encounter in the use of analytics, and what effect do changes in technology have on these organizations? In the second edition of
- [<h1>Roque Raquel Salas Rivera on Translating <i>The Book of Conjurations</i></h>](https://cupblog.org/2024/04/23/roque-raquel-salas-rivera-on-translating-the-book-of-conjurations/) - Poetry, like alchemy, can promise a material wealth it never quite delivers, transmutation through words, and the power to turn paupers into patrons, but most often promises an alchemy of the soul that strives toward a higher form. Irizelma Robles is best described as the second kind of alchemist. El libro de los conjuros/The Book
- [<h1>Virginia Hanusik on <i>Into the Quiet and the Light</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2024/04/24/virginia-hanusik-on-into-the-quiet-and-the-light/) - Into the Quiet and the Light: Water, Life, and Land Loss in South Louisiana offers a glimpse into the vulnerabilities and possibilities of living on the water during an ongoing climate catastrophe and the fallout of the fossil fuel industry. Artist Virginia Hanusik’s photographs of the architecture and infrastructure of South Louisiana are paired with
- [<h1> Jean Yen-chun Lin on <i>A Spark in the Smokestacks</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2024/04/17/jean-yen-chun-lin-on-a-spark-in-the-smokestacks/) - When author Jean Lin initially approached first-time homeowners of newly built gated communities in Beijing regarding their protests against overflowing landfills and waste incinerator construction plans, she believed that her research should focus on mobilization strategies in an authoritarian context. Instead, she was struck by the in-depth environmental information compiled and organized by the elderly
- [<h1>Learning from Nature How to Inhabit the Earth</h1> <h3>Henry Dicks</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2023/04/05/learning-from-nature-how-to-inhabit-the-earth-henry-dicks/) - Earth Month provides an opportunity not just to raise environmental awareness but also to think more deeply about alternative ways of inhabiting the earth. In my new book, The Biomimicry Revolution: Learning from Nature How to Inhabit the Earth, I argue that we are in the early stages of a profound revolution–based on the simple
- [<h1>Five Fascinating Facts About Earth’s Ancient Climate</h1><h3> Donald R. Prothero</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2024/04/01/five-fascinating-facts-about-earths-ancient-climate-donald-r-prothero/) - Earth’s ancient climate reveals a history of extreme transformations—from a greenhouse world of sweltering temperatures and high sea levels to a “snowball earth” in which glaciers reached the equator. In The Story of Earth’s Climate in 25 Discoveries, Donald R. Prothero explores the astonishing connections between climate and life through the ages, telling the remarkable
- [<h1>Howard Friedman and Akshay Swaminathan on <i>Winning with Data Science</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2024/05/01/howard-friedman-and-akshay-swaminathan-on-winning-with-data-science/) - Data science is becoming increasingly prevalent across a variety of industries, yet many businesses lack the tools or understanding to succeed in this evolving landscape. Howard Steven Friedman and Akshay Swaminathan address this situation in Winning with Data Science: A Handbook for Business Leaders. Taking an engaging narrative approach, the book covers the fundamental concepts
- [<h1>A Systems Thinking Approach to Teaching About Climate Change</h1> <h2>Cassie Xu and Radhika Iyengar</h2>](https://cupblog.org/2024/04/22/a-systems-thinking-approach-to-teaching-about-climate-change-cassie-xu-and-radhika-iyengar/) - Climate change is one of the largest threats for humanity and has already had a significant impact globally and locally. It is perhaps the most defining issue of our time. It will ultimately test how communities, cities, and countries around the world can respond to the needs of current and future generations.We have seen ample
- [<h1>Jonathan Chaves on Yanagawa Seigan</h1>](https://cupblog.org/2024/04/09/jonathan-chaves-on-yanagawa-seigan/) - Perhaps the largest body of great poetry in the world as yet undiscovered is the verse composed by Japanese authors not in Japanese, but in literary Chinese (C., wenyan; J., bungen).The phenomenon of great literature written in a language not the author’s own is understandably rare in the world. When medieval and later European writers
- [<h1>Matthew Fraleigh on <i>The Same Moon Shines on All</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2024/04/11/matthew-fraleigh-on-the-same-moon-shines-on-all/) - The last few decades have been a time of great change for the field of Japanese literary studies. The scope of the category “Japanese literature” is very differently conceptualized than it was just a generation ago; it now embraces a much broader range of forms and genres, incorporating many more texts written outside Japan, and
- [<h1>Changing the Media Environment to Protect Climate Activists</h1> <h3>Adrienne Russell</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2024/04/15/changing-the-media-environment-to-protect-climate-activists-adrienne-russell/) - Activism serves as an essential channel of communication from the public to policy makers, corporations, and other powerful actors. It is precisely because of its essential ro­­le in governance (and even capitalist arrangements, such as so-called voting with your pocketbook) that protest is a protected activity in democratic societies. But today activism, especially climate activism,
- [<h1>The Power of the Shuar:</h1> <h2>How a Small Group of Indigenous People Protected Large Forests</h2> <h3>Thomas K. Rudel</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2024/04/08/the-power-of-the-shuar-how-a-small-group-of-indigenous-people-protected-large-forests-thomas-k-rudel/) - Affluent farmers and wealthy groups of investors have continued to destroy extensive tracts of tropical forests in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and Latin America over these past forty years. The ongoing loss of these old growth forests has intensified the biodiversity crisis and accelerated climate change. Governments and wealthy foundations have tried to halt the forest
- [<h1>Alejandra C. Quintana Arocho on Translating Gabriela Mistral's <i>Desolación</i></h>](https://cupblog.org/2023/09/29/alejandra-c-quintana-arocho-on-translating-gabriela-mistrals-desolacion/) - Gabriela Mistral, born Lucila Godoy Alcayaga in Vicuña, Chile, has fascinated and puzzled scholars, writers, and artists alike for more than a century. Many have tried to weave together the variegated layers of her persona and her “emotionally outspoken verses,” as Langston Hughes describes them. There is extensive scholarship on her life, her work, and
- [<h1>Pete Hill on <i>River Profiles</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2024/04/03/pete-hill-on-river-profiles/) - Centuries of mismanagement and destructive development have gravely harmed American waterways, with significant consequences for the ecosystems and communities built around them. In River Profiles: The People Restoring Our Waterways, Pete Hill delves into the deep-rooted challenges facing American waterways, highlighting the significant ecological and social repercussions of centuries of mismanagement and destructive development. Drawing
- [<h1>What’s the Difference Between a Tree and a Building? Sometimes Nothing.</h1><h3>Dickson Despommier<h/3>](https://cupblog.org/2024/04/10/whats-the-difference-between-a-tree-and-a-building-sometimes-nothing-dickson-despommier/) - The New City: How to Build Our Urban Sustainable Future is about the urban environment and how to make it a safer place for us to live in and, at the same time, dramatically reduce its effects on rapid climate change. I base all my proposed changes to our cities on the concept of biomimicry—how
- [Q&A: Hunter Vaughan on <i>Hollywood's Dirtiest Secret</i>](https://cupblog.org/2019/04/17/qa-hunter-vaughan-on-hollywoods-dirtiest-secret/) - “In Vaughan’s deft readings of multiple films and their production apparatuses, film theory and analysis also become “updated” into a cutting-edge discipline. Hollywood’s Dirtiest Secret is an essential book in ecocinema and ecomedia studies and an important contribution to ecomaterialism within cultural studies more broadly.” ~ Adrian Ivakhiv, author of Ecologies of the Moving Image: Cinema, Affect,
- [<h1>Katłįà On the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples</h1>](https://cupblog.org/2022/08/09/katlia-on-the-international-day-of-the-worlds-indigenous-peoples/) - World Indigenous Peoples Day, here in so-called Canada, is a celebration of resiliency, empowerment and the ever-present need to recognize the diversity of all Inuit, Metis and First Nations people living on the land of our ancestors who have been caretakers of the earth, water, plants and animals in kinship since time immemorial. World Indigenous
- [<h1>Reckoning the Fire:</h1> <h2>Seven Themes to Consider When Reading <i>Firekeeper</i></h2> <h3>Katłıà</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2024/03/26/reckoning-the-fire-seven-themes-to-consider-when-reading-firekeeper-katlia/) - Firekeeper is a coming-of-age story centered on a young woman who finds herself on a reserve as a firekeeper after an unsettling childhood. As we celebrate the contributions of women throughout history, Katłıà’s storytelling invites readers to reflect on what it means for women to reclaim their histories, cultures, and identities. This listicle helps readers
- [<h1>Q&A: Giving Voice and Data to the Gender Gap in Science</h1><h3>Lisa M. P. Munoz<h/3>](https://cupblog.org/2023/11/15/qa-giving-voice-and-data-to-the-gender-gap-in-sciencelisa-m-p-munoz/) - For more than twenty years, Lisa M. P. Munoz has interviewed hundreds of different scientists about their work in psychology, neuroscience, the geosciences, biotechnology, and immunology, among other disciplines. Time and time again, she heard about the unique struggles facing women in science. In her book, Women in Science Now: Stories and Strategies for Achieving Equity,
- [<h1>How On-Screen Women Scientists Can Reduce Sexism in Science</h><h3>Lisa M. P. Munoz</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2023/10/11/how-on-screen-women-scientists-can-reduce-sexism-in-sciencelisa-m-p-munoz/) - When I was an engineering student at Cornell University, one of my first assignments in a science communications class was to analyze scientists in films to better understand public perception of science. Jurassic Park, Contact, Armageddon, Back to the Future—there were many to choose from. I went with the lesser-known Manhattan Project, which is about
- [<h1>The Untold History of Women’s Death by Laughter</h1> <h3>Maggie Hennefeld</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2024/03/20/the-untold-history-of-womens-death-by-laughter-maggie-hennefeld/) - “Those who do not remember the joke are doomed to continue laughing at it.”—An unidentified feminist philosopher. What is the funniest joke you’ve ever heard? And have you ever laughed so hard you thought you might explode? In 1907, a woman named Barbara Barr in New Jersey caught wind of a witty anecdote about dentistry
- [<h1>International Women's Day:</h1> <h2>Remembering Mary C. McCall Jr. and the Unfinished Battle for Women's Rights</h2> <h3>J. E. Smyth</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2024/03/08/international-womens-day-remembering-mary-c-mccall-jr-and-the-unfinished-battle-for-womens-rights-j-e-smyth/) - It’s International Women’s Day, and women’s rights are being rolled back all over the world, perhaps, mostly notably, in the country that hosted the first International Women’s Day in 1909—the United States. Globally, women still make less money per hour than men, and their lifetime incomes are bled by childcare-related career gaps, lost promotions, and
- [<h1>Wendy Steiner on <i>The Beauty of Choice</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2024/03/01/wendy-steiner-on-the-beauty-of-choice/) - In The Beauty of Choice, the renowned cultural critic Wendy Steiner offers a dazzling new account of aesthetics grounded in female agency. Through a series of linked meditations on canonical and contemporary literature and art, she casts women’s taste as the engine of liberal values. But what sparked her to find her voice in the
- [<h1>Ben De Witte and João Nemi Neto on Translating <i>In the Name of Desire</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2023/09/28/ben-de-witte-and-joao-nemi-neto-on-translating-in-the-name-of-desire/) - Let the power of desire not be underestimated, capable of moving mountains.—João Silvério Trevisan João Silvério Trevisan published his third novel, In the Name of Desire (originally Em nome do desejo), in 1983 at a time of climactic political and social change in Brazil. The military dictatorship, established in 1964, was in its last throes,
- [<h1>Black Life in a Nazi Internment Camp:</h1> <h2>The Art of Josef Nassy</h2> <h3>Sarah Phillips Casteel</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2024/02/07/black-life-in-a-nazi-internment-camp-the-art-of-josef-nassy-sarah-phillips-casteel/) - In July 1947, an exhibition of artworks created in Nazi concentration and internment camps was mounted in railway cars stationed in Brussels’s Gare du Nord. Included in the exhibition were several works by Josef Nassy, an artist from the Dutch Caribbean colony of Suriname. Nassy, who had both African and Jewish ancestry, created the artworks
- [<h1>Israel, Palestine, and Martin Luther King Jr.'s Civil Rights Legacy<h1> <h3>Roger Baumann</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2024/01/15/israel-palestine-and-martin-luther-king-jr-s-civil-rights-legacy-roger-baumann/) - In mid-January each year, many Americans turn their attention to questions about the legacy of the historic civil rights era of the 1950s and ’60s in the United States. This annual period of national introspection focuses especially on Martin Luther King Jr. as an icon of the movement. His January 15th birthday has been commemorated
- [<h1>Kimberly D. Acquaviva on <i>The Handbook of LGBTQIA-Inclusive Hospice and Palliative Care</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2024/01/23/kimberly-d-acquaviva-on-the-handbook-of-lgbtqia-inclusive-hospice-and-palliative-care/) - A year and a half after she published her first book about LGBTQIA-inclusive hospice and palliative care in 2017, Kimberly D. Acquaviva learned that her wife Kathy had ovarian cancer. When they were unable to find a local hospice with an LGBTQIA-inclusive nondiscrimination statement, let alone one whose staff had been trained to provide nondiscriminatory
- [<h1>Chick-fil-A in the Early Nineteenth Century<h1><h3>Joseph P. Slaughter<h3>](https://cupblog.org/2023/12/27/chick-fil-a-in-the-early-nineteenth-centuryjoseph-p-slaughter/) - The fall semester is wrapping up at Wesleyan University, which includes my fall course Jesus Chicken—a class that explores the intersection of religion and business in America. For those unfamiliar, the course’s title refers to Chick-fil-A—a derisive moniker given to the fast-food chain by progressives then reappropriated by some conservative Christians. Although it might seem
- [<h1>James W. Cortada in Conversation with Robyn Massey About <i>Inside IBM</i></h>](https://cupblog.org/2023/12/11/james-w-cortada-in-conversation-with-robyn-massey-about-inside-ibm/) - James W. Cortada―a business historian who worked at IBM for many years―pinpoints the crucial role of corporate culture in IBM’s success. He provides an inside look at how this culture emerged and evolved over the course of nearly a century, bringing together the perspectives of employees, executives, and customers around the world. Through a series
- [National Poetry Month Selection: "Azaleas" by Kim Sowol](https://cupblog.org/2012/04/24/6075/) - April is National Poetry Month, and for the rest of April we will be posting poems from our poetry titles and from those of our distributed presses.
- [<h1>Q&A: Andy Secher on <i>The Trilobite Collector’s Guide</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2023/12/04/qa-andy-secher-on-the-trilobite-collectors-guide/) - After a three-decade-long career in the rock ’n’ roll industry—during which he edited the heavy metal magazine Hit Parader, produced two music-oriented TV shows, and created Titanium Records—Andy Secher turned his attention towards another paramount interest: those strange, long-gone marine creatures known as trilobites. It’s not by chance that Secher’s focus veered in this somewhat
- [<h1>Q&A: Robert Radin on <i>Noche Triste</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2023/11/29/qa-robert-radin-on-noche-triste/) - Robert Radin is the director of citizenship and immigration services at a prominent social service agency in Massachusetts. He’s the author of the memoir Teaching English to Refugees, and his work has been recognized in The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Essays. In Noche Triste: A Memoir of Anorexia, Radin explores his
- [<h1>Stepping Ashore the Fennoscandian Shield in the Åland Archipelago</h1><h3>Markes E. Johnson</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2023/11/17/stepping-ashore-the-fennoscandian-shield-in-the-aland-archipelagomarkes-e-johnson/) - In the narrow Gulf of Bothnia between Finland and Sweden, the Åland Islands are dominated by exposures of the 1.6-billion-year-old Rapakivi granite. Limestone is scarce and its fossil content largely unknown to the outside world. Sixty islands are inhabited, surrounded by thousands of barren islets and rock skerries having a composite area of 600 square
- [What is Race-Based Traumatic Stress Injury? In a Time of Racial Unrest <br><h3>By Robert T. Carter and Alex L. Pieterse</h3></br>](https://cupblog.org/2020/06/18/what-is-race-based-traumatic-stress-injury-in-a-time-of-racial-unrest-by-robert-t-carter-and-alex-l-pieterse/) - “Carter and Pieterse increase our understanding of and the treatability of traumatic stress that results from racism. The proposals proffered in Measuring the Effects of Racism will lead to better treatment methods of race-based trauma and increase the evidence base for advocacy and agendas for social justice.” ~Hugo Kamya, Simmons University A large body of
- [<h1>C. S. Lewis’s Claim that Jesus was Either a Liar, a Lunatic, or the Lord Is Either Lame, Ludicrous, or Lousy with Literalism</h1><h3>John D. Caputo</h2>](https://cupblog.org/2023/10/25/c-s-lewiss-claim-that-jesus-was-either-a-liar-a-lunatic-or-the-lord-is-either-lame-ludicrous-or-lousy-with-literalismjohn-d-caputo/) - The problem with religion is that, with each passing day, as the Pew polls keep showing, it is making itself more and more unbelievable, and the people who try to defend it make it worse, so we do not know what to believe. That, I thought, is a good title for a book, but with
- [<h1>South Korea Makes Its Own Destiny Amid U.S.-China Competition</h1><h3>Ramon Pacheco Pardo</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2023/10/18/south-korea-makes-its-own-destiny-amid-u-s-china-competitionramon-pacheco-pardo/) - Sino-American competition is the key driving force of twenty-first-century geopolitics. Whether consciously or unconsciously, all other countries have to define grand strategy and foreign policy in response to the actions and interactions between today’s two only superpowers.No country is more aware of the need to and difficulties in navigating the competition between China and the
- [<h1>Idiopathic Hypersomnia: The History and Future of Narcolepsy’s Shadowy Sibling</h1><h3>Quinn Eastman</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2023/10/04/idiopathic-hypersomnia-the-history-and-future-of-narcolepsys-shadowy-siblingquinn-eastman/) - What makes a disease or disorder “real”? More precisely, what attributes allow medical professionals to take a condition — and the people living with it — seriously?My book, The Woman Who Couldn’t Wake Up, explores the history of idiopathic hypersomnia (IH), a rare sleep disorder. Recently IH has been getting more attention from sleep researchers
- [<h1>Lily Meyer on Translating <i>Ice for Martians</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2023/09/27/lily-meyer-on-translating-ice-for-martians/) - In Perú, the word marciano has two meanings. It can refer either to a Martian or to a common type of fruit popsicle, which is to say it can be either alien or quotidian. In Claudia Ulloa Donoso’s “Ice for Martians,” the title story of this collection, marciano pulls double duty. Technically speaking, the only
- [<h1><i>Puppet Flower</i>: How the History of Native Formosa Impacted Global History</h1><h3>Yao-Chang Chen</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2023/09/21/puppet-flower-how-the-history-of-native-formosa-impacted-global-historyyao-chang-chen/) - I was born and raised in Tainan, Taiwan. My ancestors came to Taiwan in 1661, with Ming-dynasty general Koxinga (aka Zheng Chenggong), who led his army to defeat the Dutch and seized Zeelandia (now Tainan).Many readers may know Taiwan is a “silicon island” because of its vital role in the semiconductor industry. Yet, in the
- [<h1>The Ambiguities of Musa Sayrami</h1><h2>Chronicler of Violence in the Uyghur Homeland</h2><h3>Eric Schluessel</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2023/09/20/the-ambiguities-of-musa-sayramichronicler-of-violence-in-the-uyghur-homelanderic-schluessel/) - “The common people hoped and begged for the Emperor of China, and they wept, and in their weeping, they supplicated as never before.”[1] The first time I read that sentence, it baffled me. It was written in the Uyghur homeland, called Xinjiang or East Turkestan, and its author was one of the most celebrated historians
- [In Memoriam: Milton Glaser (1929-2020)](https://cupblog.org/2020/06/30/in-memoriam-milton-glaser-1929-2020/) - We are very sad to learn of the recent passing of legendary graphic designer Milton Glaser. Columbia University Press was fortunate to be the publisher of Mag Men: Fifty Years of Making Magazines, which Milton co-authored with Walter Bernard. In the book, Milton and Walter look back at their extraordinary work in magazine design and
- [<h1>Ten Must-Read Books for Climate Week 2023</h1>](https://cupblog.org/2023/09/18/ten-must-read-books-for-climate-week-2023/) - For more than a decade, Climate Week has brought together some of the foremost international leaders in a variety of different fields to discuss solutions to the climate crisis and celebrate progress. The books on this list do the same: they propose alternative approaches to tackling environmental issues, provide new frameworks for thinking about the
- [<h1>Johan Elverskog on Translating <i>The Precious Summary</i><h1>](https://cupblog.org/2023/09/15/johan-elverskog-on-translating-the-precious-summary/) - The Precious Summary is the most important work of Mongolian history on the three-hundred-year period before the rise of the Manchu Qing dynasty. Written by Sagang Sechen in 1662, it chronicles the fall of the Yuan dynasty in China, the Mongol-Oirat wars, and the revival of Mongol power during the reign of Dayan Khan in
- [<h1>Q&A: Susanne Fusso on <i>To the Stars and Other Stories</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2023/09/05/qa-susanne-fusso-on-to-the-stars-and-other-stories/) - Though you may not recognize his name, Fyodor Sologub was a renowned Russian Symbolist writer and poet credited with bringing morbid realism into eastern European literature. To the Stars and Other Stories showcases Sologub’s iconic writing through short stories, presenting a blend of tradition,inventive language, and groundbreaking exploration of sexuality. In this Q&A, Susanne Fusso,
- [<h1>Q&A: Adam Kuplowsky on <i>The Narrow Cage and Other Modern Fairy Tales</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2023/09/08/qa-adam-kuplowsky-on-the-narrow-cage-and-other-modern-fairy-tales/) - Born in imperial Russia, the blind writer, translator, and teacher Vasily Eroshenko (1890–1952) achieved fame in Japan for both his social activism and his storytelling. The Narrow Cage and Other Modern Fairy Tales introduces English readers to a collection of Eroshenko’s stories. Translated from the Japanese and Esperanto into English by Adam Kuplowsky, these fables
- [<h1>Translating the <i>Kokinshū</i> into a Standard Prosodic Form</h1><h3>Torquil Duthie</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2023/09/13/translating-the-kokinshu-into-a-standard-prosodic-formtorquil-duthie/) - The Kokinshū was always meant to become a classic. The ambition of its compilers was to make waka (vernacular Japanese poetry) the preeminent literary practice of the Japanese imperial court. Yet surely even they would have been surprised by the extent of their success. From shortly after its completion to the end of the nineteenth
- [<h1>Leibniz’s Peruke</h1><h2>On the Philosophical Importance of Fake Hair</h2><h3>Richard Halpern</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2023/08/30/leibnizs-perukeon-the-philosophical-importance-of-fake-hairrichard-halpern/) - Possessed of a monumentally impressive intellect, the philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716) was not blessed with a body to match. Bald, short, and unhandsome of feature, he accordingly availed himself of that universal male cosmetic—and prosthetic—of his era, the peruke (figure 1). Leibniz’s peruke ameliorated several bodily shortcomings: it covered his bald pate,
- [<h1>Konrad Michel in Conversation with Anna Patchefsky on <i>The Suicidal Person</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2023/08/16/konrad-michel-in-conversation-with-anna-patchefsky-on-the-suicidal-person/) - Suicide is a difficult topic to discuss, both for suicidal individuals and for people who have been otherwise affected by suicide. Medical professionals often struggle to properly address the topic with patients. In The Suicidal Person, clinical psychiatrist and psychotherapist Konrad Michel provides insight into suicide, centering the stories of suicidal people and emphasizing the
- [<h1>Q&A: Arturo Cifuentes and Ventura Charlin on <i>The Worth of Art</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2023/08/09/qa-arturo-cifuentes-and-ventura-charlin-on-the-worth-of-art/) - The Worth of Art: Financial Tools for the Art Markets is based on a simple fact that people often overlook: artworks, notwithstanding their aesthetic merits, can be very valuable financial assets. Therefore, auction data—that is, actual prices paid for artworks, as opposed to estimates based on subjective parameters—provide a rich and reliable source of information
- [A Critique of Chrisitanity, by Gil Anidjar](https://cupblog.org/2014/05/02/a-critique-of-chrisitanity-by-gil-anidjar/) - "[T]o inquire after blood was another way to ask whether there is a Christian question, a concept of Christianity even, a manner whereby we have come to know, whereby we have established with any sense of certainty, what Christianity is." - Gil Anidjar This week our featured book is Blood: A Critique of Christianity, by
- [On Grief: Poems by Alexandra Butler, author of "Walking the Night Road"](https://cupblog.org/2015/07/24/on-grief-poems-by-alexandra-butler-author-of-walking-the-night-road/) - Read a curated selection of poems by Alexandra Butler, author of WALKING THE NIGHT ROAD: COMING OF AGE IN GRIEF.
- [St. Petersburg, Capital of the Nineteenth Century](https://cupblog.org/2017/12/20/st-petersburg-capital-of-the-nineteenth-century/) - “Burkov House is the whole of Petersburg.” Alexei Remizov The protagonist of Sisters of the Cross, Marakulin, falls on hard times and leaves his nice apartment in the Burkov House to move into a rented room three floors up. This change in circumstances gives him a new perspective on the city. Whereas before his window
- [Best of Backlist Novels from the Weatherhead Books on Asia Series: <i>A Song of Everlasting Sorrow</i> and <i>A Private Life</i>](https://cupblog.org/2018/08/29/best-of-backlist-novels-from-the-weatherhead-books-on-asia-series-a-song-of-everlasting-sorrow-and-a-private-life/) - Remember to enter our drawing for a chance to win a copy of this book or any of the other titles we're featuring this week! “Shanghai, with its distinct and mysterious longtang — neighborhoods circumscribed by narrow alleys — is as powerful a presence as its citizens and provides the occasion for the most poetic
- [Book Excerpt! Diana Trilling on the 1968 Columbia University Protests](https://cupblog.org/2018/03/07/diana-trilling-on-the-1968-columbia-university-protests/) - Perhaps this was the act of courage he was facing all his life, and Diana replied: “Perhaps the act of courage he was facing all his life was to stay alive.” —LIONEL TRILLING, JOURNAL ENTRY, 1961 (RE: HEMINGWAY’ S SUICIDE) This week, our featured book is The Untold Journey: The Life of Diana Trilling, by Natalie Robin. In light of the
- [Q&A with Max Oidtmann on <i>Forging the Golden Urn</i>](https://cupblog.org/2018/09/27/qa-with-max-oidtmann-on-forging-the-golden-urn/) - A Qing law mandated that the reincarnations of prominent Tibetan Buddhist monks be identified by drawing lots from a golden urn. In Forging the Golden Urn, Max Oidtmann traces how a Chinese bureaucratic technology was exported to the Tibetan and Mongolian regions of the Qing empire and transformed into a ritual for authenticating reincarnations.• • • •
- [Zhang Yingyu’s <i>The Book of Swindles</i>](https://cupblog.org/2018/09/28/zhang-yingyus-the-book-of-swindles/) - All this week we have been sharing Sinophone literature in English translation as part of our National Translation Month feature. Below is a roundup from The Book of Swindles—a seventeenth-century story collection, offers a panoramic guide to the art of deception. Ostensibly a manual for self-protection, it presents a tableau of criminal ingenuity in late Ming
- [What’s in a Name?: Violence and the Responsibility of Political Theory](https://cupblog.org/2018/10/24/whats-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 of violence that demonstrates why the imagination matters for political theory. He explores how narrative
- [Book Excerpt! <i>Queer Terror: Life, Death, and Desire in the Settler Colony</i>](https://cupblog.org/2018/10/25/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 empire that draws on political, queer, and critical indigenous theory to reframe the concept of
- [Words Matter: The Many Meanings of Terrorism](https://cupblog.org/2018/10/26/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 is in favor of a historico-philosophical investigation into the conditions under which uses of this
- [Q&A: Philippe Met on <i>The Cinema of Louis Malle</i>](https://cupblog.org/2018/10/30/qa-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 The Cinema of Louis Malle. In this book, Philippe Met assembles a host of contributors
- [C. Heike Schotten on <i>Queer Terror</i>](https://cupblog.org/2018/11/07/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 critique of U.S. settler-colonial empire that draws on political, queer, and critical indigenous theory to
- [Book Excerpt! <i>Afro-Dog: Blackness and the Animal Question</i> (introduction)](https://cupblog.org/2018/11/30/book-excerpt-afro-dog-blackness-and-the-animal-question-intorduction/) - “Bénédicte Boisseron’s Afro-Dog hones in, acutely and in detail, on the often-unhappy convergence of 'animal' and 'black' in current and historical thought, deftly dismantling their rhetorical obfuscations while sacrificing neither 'the animal' nor 'the black.' Instead, she calls for attending to human-animal encounters through the lens of black and animal defiance, a kind of subversive interspecies alliance
- [Q&A: Stephen Gillers on the Constitutional Protection of the Free Press](https://cupblog.org/2018/12/04/qa-stephen-gillers-on-the-constitutional-protection-of-the-free-press/) - “Journalism Under Fire issues an extraordinarily timely five-alarm warning. It is a forceful response to those who today—and in the future—would demean and disparage the essential importance of a free press to American democracy.” ~Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher, The Nation This week we are featuring Journalism Under Fire: Protecting the Future of Investigative Reporting, by Stephen Gillers. In
- [Book Excerpt! <i>Journalism Under Fire</i>, by Stephen Gillers (introduction)](https://cupblog.org/2018/12/05/book-excerpt-journalism-under-fire-by-stephen-gillers-introduction/) - “Gillers expertly weaves together legal texts, public policy, and normative theory to shed new light on the Press Clause, which, as the work makes clear, has been largely abandoned by the Supreme Court in recent years. The book develops a persuasive and coherent Press Clause theory and outlines its practical implications.” ~ Jonathan Peters, University
- [The Role of Politics: A Word From Matt Sleat](https://cupblog.org/2018/12/06/the-role-of-politics-a-word-from-matt-sleat/) - “Our actual political institutions or experience should not contaminate the moral or philosophical purity of our political theories.” ~ Matt Sleat Today, we are graced with a guest post from Matt Sleat who edited Politics Recovered: Realist Thought in Theory and Practice. The book shows how political theory can provide meaningful and compelling answers to
- [Book Excerpt! <i>The Stigma Effect</i> (preface)](https://cupblog.org/2018/12/12/book-excerpt-the-stigma-effect-preface/) - “The strength of this book is the way it balances the interconnected components of self-stigma and public stigma, with equally strong treatment of both. It will be of interest to people interested or involved in stigma reduction, either as advocates, policy folks, or personally.” ~Stephanie Knaak, University of Calgary The week we're featuring Patrick W.
- [Lance Freeman on <i>A Haven and a Hell: The Ghetto in Black America</i>](https://cupblog.org/2018/12/13/lance-freeman-on-a-haven-and-a-hell-the-ghetto-in-black-america/) - “A Haven and a Hell is a highly-accessible and necessary book for a broader and richer understanding of urban Black America.” ~Marcus Anthony Hunter, coauthor of Chocolate Cities: The Black Map of American Life Today we are featuring a guest post from Lance Freeman, a professor in the Urban Planning Program in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning,
- ["The Ride of the Valkyries," a book excerpt from <i>A German Officer in Occupied Paris: The War Journals, 1941-1945</i>, by Ernst Jünger](https://cupblog.org/2018/12/19/the-ride-of-the-valkyries-a-book-excerpt-from-a-german-officer-in-occupied-paris-the-war-journals-1941-1945-by-ernst-junger/) - Only two days left to win a copy of A German Officer in Occupied Paris: The War Journals, 1941-1945. To inspire you to enter, we are featuring "The Ride of the Valkyries," an excerpt from historian Elliot Neaman's foreword to Ernst Jünger's journals, translated by Thomas S. Hansen and Abby J. Hansen. Jünger was one
- [Is Friedrich Gorenstein’s <i>Redemption</i> a Holocaust novel?](https://cupblog.org/2018/12/19/is-friedrich-gorensteins-redemption-a-holocaust-novel/) - “Set immediately after World War II in a Soviet town emerging from German occupation, Friedrich Gorenstein’s Redemption is a small masterpiece of post-Holocaust fiction.” ~ Val Vinokur, The New School This week we are featuring Redemption, by Friedrich Gorenstein and translated by Andrew Bromfield. Today, we are featuring an analysis of the book by Sandra Chiritescu, PhD Candidate in
- [Book Excerpt! Emil Draitser's Introduction to <i>Redemption</i> by Friedrich Gorenstein](https://cupblog.org/2018/12/20/book-excerpt-emil-draitsers-introduction-to-redemption-by-friedrich-gorenstein/) - Today, we are featuring Emil Draitser's introduction to Friedrich Gorenstein's novel Redemption, a major addition to the canon of literature bearing witness to the Holocaust, translated by Andrew Bromfield and published in the Russian Library series. Enter our drawing for a chance to win a free copy of the book!
- [Book Excerpt! <i>Redemption</i> by Friedrich Gorenstein (chapter 3)](https://cupblog.org/2018/12/21/book-excerpt-redemption-by-friedrich-gorenstein-chapter-3/) - Read Chapter 3 from Friedrich Gorenstein's novel Redemption. Set in Ukraine, Redemption is a stark and powerful portrait of humanity caught up in Stalin’s police state in the aftermath of World War II. A major work bearing witness to the Holocaust in the Soviet Union, Redemption is an important reckoning with anti-Semitism and Stalinist repression from a significant Soviet Jewish
- [Ira Millstein on <i>The Activist Director</i> – Why It's Needed Now More Than Ever!](https://cupblog.org/2019/01/16/ira-millstein-on-the-activist-director-why-its-needed-now-more-than-ever/) - “No one has more experience with corporate boards, and insights into what makes them work, than Ira Millstein. The Activist Director reveals the good, the bad, and the ugly from some of the biggest management failures—and successes—in recent history.” ~ Michael Bloomberg, founder of Bloomberg LP and former mayor of New York City This month, we're featuring
- [4 Steps to Becoming an "Activist Director"](https://cupblog.org/2019/01/17/4-steps-to-becoming-an-activist-director/) - “Far too many corporate directors have failed to honor their responsibility to manage the corporations they serve for the benefit of the firm's shareholders. In this powerful and articulate book, attorney and board consultant Ira M. Millstein aims to drive a stake into director passivity and create a new model for the activist director. It
- [Book Excerpt! <i>The Activist Director</i> (conclusion)](https://cupblog.org/2019/01/18/book-excerpt-the-activist-director-conclusion/) - “For more than six decades, Ira Millstein has had an important seat in the boardrooms at some of our world's most iconic corporations. The Activist Director is a fascinating and must-read book for anyone associated with a for-profit or not-for-profit board.” ~ Sanford I. Weill, chairman emeritus, Citigroup Inc. The week is coming to an
- [William M. Klepper on How “Tough Love” Could Have Saved Tesla $40 Million](https://cupblog.org/2019/01/22/william-m-klepper-on-how-tough-love-could-have-saved-telsa-40-million/) - “Everybody needs a superior, even the company CEO, and governing boards have increasingly answered the call. In doing so, they have added plenty “tough love” to the executive suite, as William M. Klepper has so well chronicled in The CEO's Boss, with rich accounts of the partnerships, sometimes flawed, between bosses and boards from BP and
- [<i>The CEO's Boss</i> (preface)](https://cupblog.org/2019/01/23/the-ceos-boss-preface/) - “Too many researchers forget that we have as much—or more—to learn from failure as we do from success. By examining transitions that have worked and ones that haven't, William M. Klepper has given us new perspective on how boards can work with CEOs while still holding them accountable. This work is a much-needed addition to
- [Practicing Tough Love: An Excerpt from <i>The CEO’s Boss</i>](https://cupblog.org/2019/01/24/practicing-tough-love-an-excerpt-from-the-ceos-boss/) - “The CEO's Boss is a must-read for anyone who looks to be taking the highest position in a company.” ~ Midwest Book Review Tuesday you learned about Tesla $40 Million lesson in the need to show "tough love" in the boardroom. Yesterday you read William M. Klepper's preface to the The CEO’s Boss: Tough Love in the
- ["Tough Love" Tips from <i>The CEO's Boss</i>](https://cupblog.org/2019/01/25/5-tough-love-tips-from-the-ceos-boss/) - “The CEO's Boss serves up a wealth of practical, hands-on recommendations to build a productive partnership and a plan of action for a variety of businesses and settings.... For anyone who wants to take board evaluation, leadership structure, and dynamics to the next level, The CEO's Boss is inspired reading and will provide impetus for discussion.” ~Corporate Board
- [Four Steps to Strategic Leadership](https://cupblog.org/2019/01/30/four-steps-to-strategic-leadership/) - “The Wise Advocate is a key book for aspiring leaders aiming to make the best—and hardest—choices. The authors provide a practical guide to decision making through a combination of neuroscience concepts, a process of self-reflection, and consideration of the greatest good for the people one must lead.” ~Marshall Goldsmith, author of Triggers, MOJO, and What Got You Here
- [An Inner Voice for Those Who Change the World](https://cupblog.org/2019/02/01/an-inner-voice-for-those-who-change-the-world/) - “You have choices. As a leader making decisions that impact your business, and as a person making decisions that impact your life, you don’t have to be a prisoner of the default and (nearly) automatic ways in which your brain attends to information. You don’t have to take the road everyone else travels. You can
- [Onno Oerlemans on <i>Poetry and Animals</i>](https://cupblog.org/2019/02/06/onno-oerlemans-on-poetry-and-animals/) - “Onno Oerlemans’s Poetry and Animals represents an important contribution to the scholarship on animals and human-animal relations in literature. We badly need some excellent work on poetry from a human-animal studies perspective, and this book provides a provocative, erudite, thoughtful, and engaging contribution.”~ Philip Armstrong, author of What Animals Mean in the Fiction of ModernityWe’re kicking off
- [Book Excerpt! <i>Poetry and Animals</i>, by Onno Oerlemans (introduction)](https://cupblog.org/2019/02/08/book-excerpt-poetry-and-animals-by-onno-oerlemans-introduction/) - “Oerlemans interrogates how poetry, as a specific form of writing, “reveals tendrils of meaning about animals that other kinds of writing and thinking do not.” His astonishing close readings of choice examples illuminate how poetry sustains a productive ambiguity and openness in the representation—which always involves interpretation—of animals. Great for anyone teaching, writing about, or
- [Book Excerpt! <i>Eric Walrond: A Life in the Harlem Renaissance and the Transatlantic Caribbean,</i> by James Davis (introduction)](https://cupblog.org/2019/02/14/book-excerpt-eric-walrond-a-life-in-the-harlem-renaissance-and-the-transatlantic-caribbean-by-james-davis-introduction/) - “A great read, even for readers who do not know about the Harlem Renaissance and Eric Walrond. The book tells a fascinating and moving story of a literary talent's demise, or what it takes to nurture and support the literary talents of minority and impoverished writers struggling with their issues of self-esteem and self-confidence while
- [Gayle Rogers Recasts Langston Hughes as the Reporter-Translator of the Modern Black Experience](https://cupblog.org/2019/02/20/gayle-rogers-recasts-langston-hughes-as-the-reporter-translator-of-the-modern-black-experience/) - We're continuing our celebration of Black History Month with this guest post by Gayle Rogers, author of Incomparable Empires: Modernism and the Translation of Spanish and American Literature. In this post, he discusses complicated American author Langston Hughes' dilemma in translating anti-Black poetry while traveling to Spain in 1937. Rogers also traces the 20th century
- [Jon N. Hale On The Mississippi Freedom Schools—An Ongoing Lesson in Justice Through Education](https://cupblog.org/2019/02/27/jon-n-hale-on-the-mississippi-freedom-schools-an-ongoing-lesson-in-justice-through-education/) - In today's Black History month post, Jon N. Hale, author of The Freedom Schools: Student Activists in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement discusses the ongoing impact of Freedom Schools, which arose in the South as part of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. He also points to the challenges within Freedom Schools, such as communication between races
- [Lance Freeman on the History of the Ghetto in Black America](https://cupblog.org/2019/02/28/lance-freeman-on-the-history-of-the-ghetto-in-black-america/) - “Ghettos, which conjure up images of abandoned buildings, crime, and decay, would hardly seem to be something to celebrate in the original spirit of Woodson’s Negro History week. But whatever the popular stereotypes, ghettos were and continue to be more than that, they were the spaces in which Black America escaped serfdom and became modern,
- [Shennette Garrett-Scott Featured on ABWH-TV](https://cupblog.org/2020/05/19/shennette-garrett-scott-featured-on-abwh-tv/) - “Garrett-Scott reclaims the stories of black women who—as bank founders and clerks, investors, aspiring home owners, loan seekers, and, yes, as those denied loans—asserted their own economic ethos. A compelling account of black women’s ideas about money, savings, lending, obligation, and economic well-being.” ~Elsa Barkley Brown, University of Maryland In the latest ABWH-TV episode, Dr.
- [<h1>East Bay Booksellers Cultivates an Ecosystem of Thought </h1><h3>Brad Johnson</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2022/11/18/east-bay-booksellers-cultivates-an-ecosystem-of-thought-brad-johnson/) - Bookselling in the late twenty-first century is, and must be, more than simply the sum of its constituent words. It isn’t a trade secret that books can be purchased for cheaper beyond my store. I can rage against that reality, which I often do, or I can reaffirm something more central to what I do:
- [<h1>Buddhism, Relationships, and Authenticity</h1> <h3>Avram Alpert</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2022/11/19/buddhism-relationships-and-authenticity-avram-alpert/) - A few years ago, I was driving through the Blue Mountains outside of Sydney with my wife, who is Australian. We were not yet married at the time and were still learning about each other. We had been silent for a while, enjoying the scenery. As we rounded a bend, she mentioned that there was
- [<h1>Joseph Mitchell’s Human Interest in the Fulton Fish Market</h1> <h3>Jonathan H. Rees</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2022/11/22/joseph-mitchells-human-interest-in-the-fulton-fish-market-jonathan-h-rees/) - During lockdown, when I wasn’t teaching history online, I read old newspaper and magazine articles about the Fulton Fish Market—hundreds of them, if not several thousand. These stories form the core of my new history of that New York City institution. Among the great number and variety of sources I consulted, they proved to be
- [<h1>Q&A: Kenneth D. Frank in Conversation with Robyn Massey about <i>Sex in City Plants, Animals, Fungi, and More</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2022/12/09/qa-kenneth-d-frank-in-conversation-with-robyn-massey-about-sex-in-city-plants-animals-fungi-and-more/) - From the garden in the back of his downtown rowhouse, Kenneth D. Frank observed the cornucopia of organisms that interacted and mated before his eyes. These observations made him wonder: how does the city interfere with these organismal orgies? In his new book Sex in City Plants, Animals, Fungi, and More, Frank chronicles the many
- [Berthold M. Kuhn and Dimitrios L. <h1>Margellos on<i> Global Perspectives on Megatrends</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2022/12/09/berthold-m-kuhn-and-dimitrios-l-margellos-on-global-perspectives-on-megatrends/) - In Global Perspectives on Megatrends: The Future as Seen by Analysts and Researchers from Different World Regions, we, Berthold M. Kuhn and Dimitrios L. Margellos, present an analysis of twelve global trends shaping our future. In dialogue with renowned think tanks, we integrated more than thirty interviews with leading researchers, investors, and activists from different
- [<h1>Announcing The Columbia University Press Spring 2023 Catalog</h1>](https://cupblog.org/2022/12/12/announcing-the-columbia-university-press-spring-2023-catalog/) - Dear Readers, I am proud to present our Spring 2023 catalog, which demonstrates the shared strengths of Columbia University Press and Columbia University itself. In these books, Columbia authors build on distinguished careers to share important ideas with readers everywhere. This season, we are excited to introduce two vital new series. Black Lives in the
- [<h1>Ten Tips on How to Make a Great Podcast</h1> <h3>Siobhán McHugh</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2022/12/20/ten-tips-on-how-to-make-a-great-podcast-siobhan-mchugh/) - Academics and educators are increasingly turning to podcasts to disseminate research and advance teaching and learning. Although it’s relatively easy to make a podcast compared to other media formats, it’s much harder to make a great one! There are over five million podcasts competing for our ears, so here are some tips to help yours
- [<h1>Resolving to Downsize</h1> <h3>Robyn Massey</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2023/01/10/resolving-to-downsize-robyn-massey/) - As one of the many readers or viewers who has engaged with Marie Kondo’s advice on how to think about, purge, and organize possessions, I was attracted to a recent work, Downsizing: Confronting Our Possessions in Later Life, by David J. Ekerdt, professor of sociology at the University of Kansas. Ekerdt’s work focuses on end-of-life
- [<h1>Q&A: David Bordwell on <i>Perplexing Plots</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2023/01/17/qa-david-bordwell-on-perplexing-plots/) - The art of storytelling is an ever-evolving relationship between writers and their audiences that gets more complex over time. For instance, nonlinear story lines, once considered complex, are now part of mainstream films and mystery and suspense thrillers. David Bordwell, the Jacques Ledoux Professor Emeritus of Film Studies at the University of Wisconsin and the
- [<h1>Families for Our Ideas: Beatrice Marovich in Conversation with Krista Dragomer on the Art of <i>Sister Death</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2023/01/25/families-for-our-ideas-beatrice-marovich-in-conversation-with-krista-dragomer-on-the-art-of-sister-death/) - When I submitted the final manuscript of Sister Death: Political Theologies for Living and Dying to Columbia University Press, the document did not include images. Somehow, partly through the organic growth of the book and partly through happy accident, the artwork of my friend and collaborator Krista Dragomer came to be an integral part of
- [<h1>The Struggle and Resistance of Black Women Beneficiaries of Social Welfare</h1> <h3>Gladys L. Mitchell-Walthour</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2023/02/08/the-political-struggle-of-black-women-recipients-of-welfare-gladys-l-mitchell-walthour/) - On September 27, 2022, Renée Graham, a Boston Globe columnist, published a piece entitled “Brett Favre, Welfare Queen: The Same People Who Denounce Welfare Don’t Seem Outraged Over the Former Quarterback’s Alleged Misappropriation of Antipoverty Funds.” Her bold title was meant to draw attention to the fact that a wealthy white American man had committed
- [<h1>Q&A: Dr. Amy Yeboah Quarkume and Dr. Frank Guridy on Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past / Present / Future</h1> <h2>A Howard-Columbia Intellectual Partnership</h2>](https://cupblog.org/2023/02/15/qa-dr-amy-yeboah-quarkume-and-dr-frank-guridy-on-black-lives-in-the-diaspora-past-present-future-a-howard-columbia-intellectual-partnership/) - In February 2021, Columbia University Press announced a new partnership with Howard University’s College of Arts and Sciences and Columbia University’s African American and African Diaspora Studies Department—the Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past / Present / Future series. Building on Columbia University Press’s history of publications in Black studies and history, sociology, religion, philosophy, and literature, and
- [<h1>Married Women’s Property Rights and Enslavement in the Pre–Civil War South </h1><h3>Sara Chatfield<h3>](https://cupblog.org/2023/03/03/married-womens-property-rights-and-enslavement-in-the-pre-civil-war-south-sara-chatfield/) - When we think about women’s history, the suffrage movement is often one of the first topics that comes to mind. But individual states, largely before women had the right to vote, enacted reforms that significantly expanded the economic rights of married women. Beginning in 1835 and continuing through 1920, U.S. states passed laws that granted
- [<h1>Susan J. Wolfson on Mary Wollstonecraft and <i>A Vindication of the Rights of Woman</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2023/03/06/susan-j-wolfson-on-mary-wollstonecraft-and-a-vindication-of-the-rights-of-woman/) - It was so exciting, so interesting, so educational, so sobering, so exhilarating to plan, research, and write On Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Sobering because my grandmother, born in the 1890s, was a suffragist; sobering because in many parts of the world, and in this country, too, “the Rights of Woman”
- [<h1>Rob Verchick in Conversation with Robyn Massey About <i>The Octopus in the Parking Garage</i></h1>](https://cupblog.org/2023/04/04/rob-verchick-in-conversation-with-robyn-massey-about-the-octopus-in-the-parking-garage/) - In November 2016, Richard Conlin discovered an unexpected guest in his parking garage: an octopus. The photos he took quickly went viral, but to Rob Verchick, a leading climate law scholar and the author of The Octopus in the Parking Garage: A Call for Climate Resilience, it was a potent symbol of the disruptions that
- [<h1>The Truth About Rising CO<sub>2</sub> and Its Effect on Plant Biology</h1> <h3>Lewis H. Ziska</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2023/04/06/the-truth-about-rising-co2-and-its-effect-on-plant-biology-lewis-h-ziska/) - We recognize that the global concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other heat-trapping gasses is rising, that global warming, or climate change, is going to be a consequence. For many people, that consequence is seen through images that have become iconic, from polar bears clinging to shrinking ice floes to desperate newscasters reporting on “one-in-a-thousand-years”
- [<h1>Why (Expert) Human Talk Matters in the Age of ChatGPT</h1> <h3>Alex Preda</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2023/04/11/why-expert-human-talk-matters-in-the-age-of-chatgpt-alex-preda/) - We live in an era of techno-financial capitalism in which financial trading is largely conducted by machines and the spoken word doesn’t seem to play much of a role anymore. We have come a long way from the time when buying and selling financial assets meant calling, shouting, whispering—in a word, talk. Talk has seemingly
- [<h1>Five Steps You Can Take to Jump-Start Action on Climate Change</h1><h3>Michael Gunter, Jr.</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2023/04/13/five-steps-you-can-take-to-jump-start-action-on-climate-change-michael-gunter-jr/) - Climate change. That’s a polarizing phrase in America, one that too often shuts down discussion before it ever begins. Heck, former Florida governor and now sitting U.S. Senator Rick Scott banned state officials from even using the term during his gubernatorial tenure. He did this even as our planet is warming an astounding ten times
- [<h1>25 Must-Read Books for Earth Month 2023</h1>](https://cupblog.org/2023/04/14/25-must-read-books-for-earth-month-2023/) - During Earth Month, people worldwide unite to awaken our environmental consciousness and raise awareness of our planet’s health. The books on this list speak to the challenges we face today, including climate change, natural disasters, climate resilience, living and conducting business sustainably and equitably, learning from nature, environmental conflict, food security, and more. On Climate
- [<h1>Three Reforms That Congressional Committees Should Institute</h1> <h3>Maya L. Kornberg</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2023/04/18/three-reforms-that-congressional-committees-should-institute-maya-l-kornberg/) - Committees are essential institutions in Congress. My book, Inside Congressional Committees: Function and Dysfunction in the Legislative Process, unpacks the contemporary legislative process to show what is working, what isn’t, and what can be changed. Based on my research, here are three reforms that can strengthen congressional committees. 1. Create Outside Advisory Boards Committee staff
- [<i>Design with Nature Now</i> and the Pandemic <br><h3>By Frederick Steiner</h3></br>](https://cupblog.org/2020/07/22/design-with-nature-now-and-the-pandemic-by-frederick-steiner/) - “Like Ian McHarg's classic Design with Nature, this beautiful and fulsome reprise of his earlier work inspires us with its sheer virtuosity. Yes, it looks back at the pioneering work of McHarg but, much more, it elucidates contemporary challenges with boldness and precision. Human destruction and climate change are front and center, but so is
- [5 Classic Films that Charmed the Industry and Devastated the Environment](https://cupblog.org/2019/04/19/5-classic-films-that-charmed-the-industry-and-devastated-the-environment/) - “Well-researched and written in an accessible style, it [Hollywood's Dirtiest Secret] is a thought-provoking alternative history of Hollywood, delving into the disconnect between our enjoyment of screen culture and concern for its environmental impact. It will be of interest to scholars and students in a range of fields including cultural studies, communication, social science, and
- [A Nineteenth-Century #MeToo Moment? <h3>Nora Seligman Favorov</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2018/08/15/a-nineteenth-century-metoo-moment/) - There is a scene in Sofia Khvoshchinskaya’s 1863 novel City Folk and Country Folk where Olenka, the young female protagonist, and Erast Ovcharov, the urban sophisticate who is staying at her mother’s estate for the summer, are both riding in a carriage, going to visit Katerina Petrovna, another city noble who has an estate near
- [Comedies of Catastrophe, Contagion, and Self-Quarantine: A Spectral Playlist for the Impromptu Apocalypse](https://cupblog.org/2020/04/02/comedies-of-catastrophe-contagion-and-self-quarantine-a-spectral-playlist-for-the-impromptu-apocalypse/) - One of my favorite books to have worked on from the past few years is Maggie Hennefeld’s Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes. In this post she offers a list of comedies featuring women who focus on societal catastrophe, epidemic contagion, and hysterical self-quarantine. These are not normally topics we think of when we
- [How a Divisive Movie Franchise Still Persists in the #MeToo Era: A New Look at <i>I Spit on Your Grave</i> and <i>I Spit on Your Grave: Déjà Vu</i>](https://cupblog.org/2019/04/23/how-a-divisive-movie-franchise-still-persists-in-the-metoo-era-a-new-look-at-i-spit-on-your-grave-and-i-spit-on-your-grave-deja-vu/) - “ISOYG’s careful research and analysis makes for an insightful and enjoyable read throughout, and Maguire’s clear-sightedness enables him to pull off the difficult feat of treating the subject matter seriously (as one would expect) without the book ever becoming dry and humourless.” ~ Jon Towlson, Starburst Magazine In conjunction with today's release of I Spit
- [In the Black: A Brief History of Early Black Women Investors](https://cupblog.org/2019/03/22/in-the-black-a-brief-history-of-early-black-women-investors/) - In the hilarious Showtime series Black Monday, set in the late 1980s, Dawn Towner (played by Regina Hall in gloriously shimmering peacock shades of eye shadow) is the only female head trader on Wall Street. Towner holds a small stake in the investment firm Jammer Group, owned by Maurice “Mo” Monroe (played by Don Cheadle).
- [Women with Good Ideas <h2>Saluting female inventors of the past; inspiring women innovators in the future</h2> <h3>Lorraine Marchand</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2022/03/03/women-with-good-ideas-saluting-female-inventors-of-the-past-inspiring-women-innovators-in-the-future-lorraine-marchand/) - It’s unfortunate but true: Only 5 percent of patents are held by women. Only 25 percent of top innovation firms are led by women. Half as many women as men are likely to start their own business, and 95 percent of women who do so fail within a year because they can’t secure funding and
- [“Party Rape” and the Celebration of Lack of Consent <h3>Kelly Oliver</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2016/11/21/party-rape-and-the-celebration-of-lack-of-consent/) - Kelly Oliver, author of HUNTING GIRLS: SEXUAL VIOLENCE FROM THE HUNGER GAMES TO CAMPUS RAPE, argues that celebration of the lack of consent is on the rise.
- [5 Ways That China’s First and Only Female Emperor Wu Zhao Reimagined Traditional Female Roles to Invent a Novel and Unique Vision of Emperorship!](https://cupblog.org/2020/03/23/5-ways-that-chinas-first-and-only-female-emperor-wu-zhao-reimagined-traditional-female-roles-to-invent-a-novel-and-unique-vision-of-emperorship/) - Wu Zhao (624-705) was the first and only female emperor in Chinese history. Given the predominantly patriarchal and androcentric confines of medieval China, her singular ascendancy was wildly improbable. Even stranger, perhaps is one of the strategies she employed to progressively consolidate her power as empress (655-83), grand dowager (684-690), and ultimately as, emperor (690-705).
- [Kawashima Yoshiko and Yukawa Haruna: The Connection Between a Manchu Princess and a Japanese Hostage<br><h3>By Phyllis Birnbaum</br></h3>](https://cupblog.org/2020/03/17/kawashima-yoshiko-and-yukawa-haruna-the-connection-between-a-manchu-princess-and-a-japanese-hostageby-phyllis-birnbaum/) - In the time that has passed since I finished writing Manchu Princess, Japanese Spy, I’ve been surprised at how many times I’ve thought of Kawashima Yoshiko, the subject of this biography. She is with me on my return trips to Matsumoto, Japan, where she grew up after being sent from her native China to her
- [Party Rape: An Excerpt from <i> Hunting Girls</i>](https://cupblog.org/2018/03/21/party-rape-an-excerpt-from-hunting-girls/) - As long as college men continue to see women as sexual prey or trophies, rape will continue to plague college campuses. --Kelly Oliver As part of Women's History Month, we have dedicated this month to highlighting titles about women's issue. Today we are posting an excerpt about Party Rape from this week's featured book, Hunting Girls: Sexual Violence from
- [The Timeliness of Julia Kristeva’s The Enchanted Clock <br><h3>By Armine Kotin Mortimer</h3></br>](https://cupblog.org/2020/08/25/the-timeliness-of-julia-kristevas-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 eve of revolution at the end of the eighteenth century.” ~Verena Conley, Harvard University We
- [Book Excerpt!  Chi Pang-yuan's <i>The Great Flowing River</i>](https://cupblog.org/2018/09/25/book-excerpt-chi-pang-yuans-the-great-flowing-river/) - This week for National Translation Month we are focusing on Sinophone literature in English translation. For today's post we are sharing an excerpt from The Great Flowing River by Chi Pang-yuan, translated by John Balcom, a powerful personal memoir set against the changes that shook twentieth-century China and Taiwan. Chi Pang-yuan, a professor emeritus of
- [Chen Yea-Fen on <i>The Great Flowing River</i> and Chi Pang-yuan's Honorary Degree](https://cupblog.org/2019/09/27/chen-yea-fen-on-the-great-flowing-river-and-chi-pang-yuans-honorary-degree/) - “The Great Flowing River is one of the great memoirs of modern China. Telling the story of one woman’s odyssey through the twentieth century, this is not just a deeply moving account of Chi Pang-yuan and her family, but a window into how the Chinese people came through the trauma of war and turmoil, and
- [Q&A: Ch’oe Yun and Chungmoo Choi on <i>There a Petal Silently Falls</i>](https://cupblog.org/2020/08/27/qa-choe-yun-and-chungmoo-choi-on-there-a-petal-silently-falls/) - “Ch'oe is a versatile writer who cloaks stark perceptions of individual and social trauma with elegant craft, poignant metaphor, and occasional, sardonic flashes of humor." ~Barbara Lloyd McMichael, Seattle Times We’re closing out Women in Translation Month with a Q&A on There a Petal Silently Falls: Three Stories by Ch'oe Yun, one of our most
- [Gloria Steinem on <i>Sex and World Peace</i>](https://cupblog.org/2014/11/05/gloria-steinem-on-sex-and-world-peace/) - As part of her Reading Our Way to the Revolution, Gloria Steinem has selected Sex and World Peace book of the month. In the coming days, Steinem will be featuring the book and you can follow #GloriaReads for more updates. Here's Gloria Steinem on the book Sex & World Peace is a rare book that
- [Announcing Our 2023 History Catalog](https://cupblog.org/2023/01/03/announcing-our-2023-history-catalog/) - Letter from the Editors: We are pleased to present the 2023 history catalog from Columbia University Press. We have a slate of new books that examine the life and legacy of globally important intellectual figures, U.S. intrigue in the Cold War, the history of capitalism, and more. In global history, new titles examine the intellectual
- [Announcing Our 2023 Literary Studies Catalog](https://cupblog.org/2023/01/03/announcing-our-2023-literary-studies-catalog/) - Letter from the Editors: We are very excited to share our new catalog in literary studies, which includes a wide range of books in a variety of areas. Imani Owens’s Turn the World Upside Down, is one of the first books in the recently launched Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past/Present/Future, a cross-disciplinary series in
- [Three Things You Can do to Make Your Data Tables More Visual <br><h3>By Jonathan Schwabish</h3></br>](https://cupblog.org/2021/03/16/three-things-you-can-do-to-make-your-data-tables-more-visual-by-jonathan-schwabish/) - Tables are different from graphs and charts. Charts are meant to present a quick, visual representation of data. But tables are drill-downs, an outlay of all the data down to their exact values or estimates. Tables are not always the right choice. If you have too much data, they look cluttered. But a well-designed table
- [7 Easy Steps to Reducing Plastic Waste<br><h3>By Rebecca Prince-Ruiz and Joanna Atherfold Finn</h3></br>](https://cupblog.org/2020/07/15/7-easy-steps-to-reducing-plastic-wasteby-rebecca-prince-ruiz-and-joanna-atherfold-finn/) - “Plastic Free shows how one person can ripple out and cause good around the globe. Never has there been a more important time to share hope and action, and combine them for our Mother Earth.” ~Melissa Joan Hart, actress In July 2011, Rebecca Prince-Ruiz challenged herself to go plastic free for the whole month. From
- [Q&A: Reed Brody on <i>To Catch a Dictator</i>](https://cupblog.org/2022/11/15/qa-reed-brody-on-to-catch-a-dictator/) - What does it take to make a dictator answer for his crimes? Hissène Habré, the former despot of Chad, terrorized, tortured, and killed on a horrific scale while enjoying full American and Western support. After his overthrow, his victims and their supporters were determined to see Habré held responsible for his atrocities. They faced an
- [Announcing Our 2022-2023 Religion Catalog](https://cupblog.org/2022/11/09/announcing-our-2022-2023-religion-catalog/) - Letter from the Religion Editor: Friends, colleagues, authors, scholars of religion, and beyond: Greetings, with a special hello to those attending AAR/SBL in person! It’s nice to see you here. It’s that time of the year when we introduce our new titles for 2022-2023. Our just-off-the-press catalog showcases new books in philosophy of religions; Middle
- [Announcing our 2022-2023 Social Work Catalog](https://cupblog.org/2022/11/04/announcing-our-2022-2023-social-work-catalog/) - Letter from the editor: I am pleased to share the 2022-2023 Columbia University Press social work catalog. At what we hope is the tail end of a long pandemic, this fall semester marks a return to some kind of normality. It is not the same normality we left in the spring of 2020, and social work
- [How Should We Approach Black Literature and Art Now? <h3>John Brooks</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2022/10/24/how-should-we-approach-black-literature-and-art-now-john-brooks/) - In the United States, there’s a tendency to assume that Black literature and art are valuable primarily because they’re pedagogical, as if Black creative expression exists first and foremost to educate racist whites. This approach may be well meaning, but it treats Black creative expression as a knowledge repository about Black life, inadvertently conceding that
- [Look Away: Instinct as Deterministic Force in Jordan Peele’s <i>Nope</i> <h3>Thomas M. Puhr</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2022/10/28/look-away-instinct-as-deterministic-force-in-jordan-peeles-nope-thomas-m-puhr/) - Note: This piece contains spoilers. In a series of one-sheets released for Jordan Peele’s Nope (2022), the horror film’s characters stare skyward, expressions of wide-eyed fear dominating their faces. They almost appear hypnotized. What, we wonder, is eliciting this response? The seemingly spoiler-heavy trailers suggest they’re observing a UFO (the silver disc pursuing Daniel Kaluuya
- [Bernard Shaw, the Tiananmen Crackdown, and the CNN Effect <h3>Mike Chinoy</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2022/10/18/bernard-shaw-the-tiananmen-crackdown-and-the-cnn-effect-mike-chinoy/) - Bernard Shaw, who for twenty years was CNN’s top anchor, died on September 8, his death largely overshadowed by the passing of Queen Elizabeth the same day. Shaw is best remembered for his live reporting of the start of the first Gulf War in 1991. But he played an equally crucial role in CNN’s groundbreaking
- [Announcing Our 2022-2023 Philosophy Catalog](https://cupblog.org/2022/10/10/announcing-our-2022-2023-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 philosophy, philosophy of science, philosophy of gender, and Asian philosophy, reflect the interdisciplinary and global
- [National Translation Month 2022! A Journey Through Time and Place <h3>Claire Brown</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2022/09/01/national-translation-month-2022-a-journey-through-time-and-place-claire-brown/) - Welcome to our annual celebration of National Translation Month 2022! Ten years ago, two incredible women, author and journalist Loren Kleinman and poet and translator Claudia Serea, founded National Translation Month. Understanding language as an essential instrument for expressing the human experience, they were also aware that language could present a barrier to communication in
- [The Multifaceted Advice of the <i>Zhuangzi</i> <h3>Richard John Lynn</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2022/09/29/the-multifaceted-advice-of-the-zhuangzi-richard-john-lynn/) - This translation is “new” in that it differs significantly from previous translations since it is based on one particular traditional Chinese commentary, the earliest complete philosophical commentary by Guo Xiang 郭象 (265–312). The translation technique is also “new” in that the text of the Zhuangzi and its commentary are fully integrated—the meaning of the one
- [The Power of Female Same-Sex Love <h3>Stephen Roddy and Ying Wang</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2022/09/15/the-power-of-female-same-sex-love-li-yu-stephen-roddy-and-ying-wang/) - In premodern China, descriptions of homoeroticism can be found in multiple examples of histories, poetry, fiction, and drama, but nearly all of these treat exclusively male-male relations. On female same-sex desire, the written record is almost completely silent. The few exceptions, such as Pu Songling’s (1640–1715) tale “Feng Sanniang,” Shen Fu’s (1762–after 1803) Six Records
- [Women in Translation Month 2022: A Philosophical Exploration](https://cupblog.org/2022/08/01/women-in-translation-month-2022-a-philosophical-exploration/) - Welcome to Women in Translation Month 2022! Eight years ago, blogger and academic Meytal Radzinski took a critical look at the publishing landscape and noticed that the world of translated literature was heavily male-dominated. Works by women authors made up less than 30 percent of the books translated into English. Reflecting on this gender disparity and wanting
- [Interpreting the Nuances of Historical Texts <h3>David Brophy</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2022/09/27/interpreting-the-nuances-of-historical-texts-david-brophy/) - In the wake of the Qianlong emperor’s invasion of Xinjiang in the mid-eighteenth century, Qing-appointed Muslim governors preserved certain trappings of Islamic rule while serving alongside a rotation of Manchu and Mongolian ambans. In the 1780s, one of the local aristocratic families in the oasis of Kashgar commissioned Muhammad Sadiq Kashghari to pen a description
- [Translating a Narcissist: The Italian Invert’s Companion <h3>Nancy Erber</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2022/09/13/translating-a-narcissist-the-italian-inverts-companion-nancy-erber/) - The Italian invert and I have a history together. I first came across his story under the title “Roman d’un inverti” in the 1980s in a hot and stuffy Paris library as I was scrolling through the Archives d’Anthropologie criminelle, de médicine légale et de psychologie normale et pathologique, as many other researchers in French
- [Becoming Vermin <h2>Perhat Tursun as a Franz Kafka Character</h2> <h3>Darren Byler</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2022/09/22/becoming-vermin-perhat-tursun-as-a-franz-kafka-character-darren-byler/) - The imprisoned Uyghur author and poet Perhat Tursun hates it when people call him “the Uyghur Franz Kafka.” He thinks Uyghur writers should be recognized as world-class intellectuals on their own terms, not as derivative world literature representatives of a Turkic Muslim people in Northwest China. At the very least, they should be seen as
- [“Researching” for Translation <h3>Anders Hansson and Bonnie McDougall</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2022/09/20/researching-for-translation-anders-hansson-and-bonnie-mcdougall/) - A few months ago, Bonnie received a request from the research administration at her university to submit information on any recent publications. She duly let them know about our translation of A Catalog of Such Stuff as Dreams are Made On, by the Hong Kong writer Dung Kai-cheung. A few weeks later, another request arrived
- [Q&A: Giuseppe Caruso on <i>The Botany of Beer</i>](https://cupblog.org/2022/09/08/qa-giuseppe-caruso-on-the-botany-of-beer/) - Pour a pint, and read about its incredible plant origins. Giuseppe Caruso’s The Botany of Beer: An Illustrated Guide to More Than 500 Plants Used in Brewing provides a lovely look into the raw materials that can spice up your brew—providing a true cask of knowledge for all beer-brewing enthusiasts. But how did this detailed
- [Tommy, Helen, Frank, and Me <h3>S. R. Gilbert</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2022/09/06/tommy-helen-frank-and-me-s-r-gilbert/) - It was as inconceivable to Helen Lowe that she address her author as “Tommy” as it would be for me to open an email with “Cher Frank.” Without question, those writers whose work undergoes translation during their lifetimes must endure some exposure to, not to say intimacy with, those hired to convey their works to
- [Announcing Our 2022-2023 Politics and International Affairs Catalog](https://cupblog.org/2022/09/02/announcing-our-2022-2023-politics-and-international-affairs-catalog/) - Letter from the editors: We are proud to present this year’s selection of titles in political science, international relations, and political theory. Our American politics list is split between domestic politics and American foreign relations, but both lists consider issues of contemporary concern and their deep institutional roots. In Generation Gap, Kevin Munger explores the
- [Writing Through Multiple Alienation <h3>Chiara Cappelletto</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2022/08/09/writing-through-multiple-alienation-chiara-cappelletto/) - Embodying Art has been an experiment in thinking on paper through self-alienation. Starting from Samuel Fleck’s draft translation of my Neuroestetica, published in Italian a decade ago, I had originally planned to update, expand, and substantially revamp the text while writing directly in English, a language I learned as an adult. The idea was that
- [Q&A: Eva von Redecker and Lucy Duggan on <i>Praxis and Revolution</i>](https://cupblog.org/2022/08/16/qa-eva-von-redecker-and-lucy-duggan-on-praxis-and-revolution/) - The concept of revolution marks the ultimate horizon of modern politics. In Praxis and Revolution: A Theory of Social Transformation, Eva von Redecker reconsiders critical theory’s understanding of radical change in order to offer a bold account of how revolution occurs. In celebration of Women in Translation Month, von Redecker and translator Lucy Duggan have
- [Translation and the Writing Classroom <h3>Marie Satya McDonough</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2022/08/23/translation-and-the-writing-classroom-marie-satya-mcdonough/) - Although I am both a teacher and a translator, I do not teach translation. In fact, the person in my family who knows about translation, who has an actual degree in translation—my brother—works in a vineyard, while those of us who translate—my mother and I—have devoted the majority of our working lives to other occupations. My own
- [“Seoul, So Far Away” from <i>Who Ate Up All the Shinga?</i> <h3>Park Wan-suh</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2022/08/30/seoul-so-far-away-from-who-ate-up-all-the-shinga-park-wan-suh/) - “Suddenly a blinding flash shot from a building straight into my eyes. The light was unlike any I’d seen before. There was no fire, but it was more intense than any flame. I clung to my mother in fear. She told me to stop being silly, that it was just the sun reflecting off a
- [A Guide to the Russo-Ukrainian Conflict <h2>An AUP RoundUP</h2> <h3>Claire Brown</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2022/06/24/a-guide-to-the-russo-ukrainian-conflict-an-aup-roundup-claire-brown/) - With the Russian invasion of Ukraine reaching its fourth month, I have been wondering why coverage of the conflict has been decreasing. Have we forgotten? Who is responsible for maintaining awareness of global conflicts and catastrophes? What role does the media play in our increasingly narrow attention span? Admittedly, it’s challenging to combat media sensationalism
- [Announcing Our 2022-2023 Business and Economics Catalog](https://cupblog.org/2022/08/04/announcing-our-2022-2023-business-catalog/) - Letter from the Editor of Columbia Business School Publishing: As the founding publisher of the Columbia Business School Publishing imprint, I am honored to present our recent and forthcoming titles. We seek to bridge leading academic thought and professional practice to contribute to moving forward the fields of finance, investment, digital business, innovation, and social
- [Announcing Our 2022-2023 Sociology Catalog](https://cupblog.org/2022/08/02/announcing-our-2022-2023-sociology-catalog/) - Letter from the editor: It is with great pleasure that, on behalf of my colleagues at Columbia University Press, I introduce this year’s sociology catalog. This was yet another year of challenges in the world, but we remain steadfast in our dedication to advancing world knowledge focusing on the global, urban, and contemporary. The books
- [Daniel Graham in Conversation with Lindsey Bell About <i>An Internet in Your Head</i>](https://cupblog.org/2022/08/03/daniel-graham-in-conversation-with-lindsey-bell-about-an-internet-in-your-head/) - The metaphor of the brain as a computer has defined the neuroscience field for much of the modern era. Whether we realize it or not, we think of our brains as computers. But as neuroscientists increasingly reevaluate their assumptions about how brains work, we need a new metaphor to help us ask better questions. Daniel
- [Anne Skomorowsky in Conversation with Robyn Massey about <i>The Carriers</i>](https://cupblog.org/2022/02/18/anne-skomorowsky-in-conversation-with-robyn-massey-about-the-carriers/) - A tiny mutation on the X chromosome is a relatively common but still little-known genetic condition that can shape a family’s history. Passed down from a “carrier” parent to a child, fragile X syndrome is the most common inherited cause of intellectual disability and autism. Beyond that—and a rarity among genetic disorders—some fragile X carriers
- [Getting a Handle on the COVID-19 Pandemic <br><h3>By Geoffrey C. Kabat</h3></br>](https://cupblog.org/2020/04/06/getting-a-handle-on-the-covid-19-pandemic-by-geoffrey-c-kabat/) - “Geoffrey Kabat's vital, wide-ranging book cannot have arrived at a more fortuitous time. . . Everyone should read his analysis—at once clear-eyed, thoughtful, and beautifully written—to understand the nature of risk. I cannot overstate the importance of this book.” ~Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Emperor of All Maladies Geoffrey Kabat is a cancer epidemiologist and
- [Robert G. O’Meally in Conversation with Justin Liang About <i>Antagonistic Cooperation</i>](https://cupblog.org/2022/06/17/robert-g-omeally-in-conversation-with-justin-liang-about-antagonistic-cooperation/) - From the collages of Romare Bearden and the paintings of Jean-Michel Basquiat, to the fiction of Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison, to the music of Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, in Antagonistic Cooperation: Jazz, Collage, Fiction, and the Shaping of African American Culture Robert G. O’Meally explores how the worlds of African American jazz, art,
- [The Innovative Mindset of Marie Van Brittan Brown <h3>Lorraine H. Marchand</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2022/02/21/the-innovative-mindset-of-marie-van-brittan-brown-lorraine-marchand/) - When we think of great innovators, the faces are usually the same—typically, white males, such as Edison, Tesla, Jobs, Musk. . . But history teaches us that while African Americans and women are historically underrepresented among the ranks of innovators and inventors, they are not absent. These unsung individuals often prevailed against extreme odds to make their
- [A Voice from the Past <h2>One Nineteenth-Century Queer Autobiography<h2> <h3>William A. Peniston </h3>](https://cupblog.org/2022/06/09/a-voice-from-the-past-one-nineteenth-century-queer-autobiography-william-a-peniston/) - Before the twentieth century, it is rare to find autobiographical writings by men who were attracted to other men. In France, only eight have been identified for the era between 1845 and 1905. All were originally published in French as case studies in medical journals; none of them were completely unmediated personal expressions; and yet,
- [Queer Cruising Before Dating Apps <h3>Michael Rosenfeld</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2022/06/07/queer-cruising-before-dating-apps-michael-rosenfeld/) - Ever wonder how queer people met one another in the nineteenth century, when divulging one’s sexuality could lead to scandal and even arrest? In his tell-all confessions-letters, sent to French novelist Émile Zola in 1889 and to Dr. Georges Saint-Paul in 1896, an anonymous, young, and dashing Italian aristocrat reveals how he cruised men all
- [Gender Bending and Homosexuality in an Eighteenth-Century Chinese Novel <h3>By Susan Chan Egan</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2021/09/09/gender-bending-and-homosexuality-in-an-eighteenth-century-chinese-novel-by-susan-chan-egan/) - What does one make of a male adolescent whois sometimes mistaken for a girl;fancies himself a calligrapher and aesthete;has excessive sympathy for all things pretty that extends even to fallen flower petals;indulges in affectionate sex play with his maidservants as well as his male friends; andhas as a best friend an actor who trained to
- [On Min Jin Lee’s <i>Pachinko</i> and the Translation of “Zainichi”](https://cupblog.org/2018/09/07/on-min-jin-lees-pachinko-and-the-translation-of-zainichi/) - As part of our National Translation Month feature, today's guest post is written by Christina Yi, a scholar of Modern Japanese literature and the author of Colonizing Language: Cultural Production and Language Politics in Modern Japan and Korea. • • • • • • Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko is the first English-language novel to depict
- [Announcing the Columbia University Press Fall 2022 Catalog](https://cupblog.org/2022/05/09/announcing-the-columbia-university-press-fall-2022-catalog/) - Click on the down arrow above to download a PDF of our Fall 2022 catalog. Dear Readers, In a world beset by uncertainty, the insight and research of Columbia authors help unravel for us the complex challenges we face. I am delighted to introduce our Fall 2022 catalog, featuring urgent books that make vital contributions to understanding the
- [Announcing Our 2022 Film, Media, and Journalism Studies Catalog](https://cupblog.org/2022/03/31/announcing-our-2022-film-media-and-journalism-studies-catalog/) - Letter from the editors: We are very pleased to share with you an exciting range of new and forthcoming books in film, media, and journalism studies. At a time when the future of film-going is very much a question, Ross Melnick’s Hollywood’s Embassies looks back to the history of how Hollywood studios built grand movie
- [The Complex Image of Empress Dowager Cixi of the Qing Empire <h3>Daniel Barish</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2022/03/29/the-complex-image-of-empress-dowager-cixi-of-the-qing-empire-daniel-barish/) - “In Barish’s study of imperial education, Empress Dowager Cixi emerges as a skillful coalition builder, open to diverse policy stances, who participates in the global movement toward nationalizing monarchies. Learning to Rule offers readers a fresh, complex vision of Qing rule in its last decades.”—Evelyn S. Rawski, author of The Last Emperors: A Social History of
- [Announcing Our 2022 Asian Studies Catalog](https://cupblog.org/2022/03/23/announcing-our-2022-asian-studies-catalog/) - Letter from the Editors: We are pleased to present the 2022 Columbia University Press Asian studies catalog. These books span many fields in Asian studies—history, politics, literary studies, philosophy, religion, and film—and reflect the interdisciplinary and global approach of our list. For the tea lovers among you, Robert Hellyer’s Green with Milk and Sugar tells
- [Dr. Katie Gaddini on <i>The Struggle to Stay: Why Single Evangelical Women Are Leaving the Church</i>](https://cupblog.org/2022/03/22/dr-katie-gaddini-on-the-struggle-to-stay-why-single-evangelical-women-are-leaving-the-church/) - Evangelical Christianity is often thought of as oppressive to women, yet more than thirty million women in the United States identify as evangelical. The Struggle to Stay: Why Single Evangelical Women Are Leaving the Church offers an intimate and insightful portrait of single women’s experiences in evangelical churches. But what inspired Katie Gaddini to study
- [Q&A: Minae Mizumura on <i>An I-Novel</i>](https://cupblog.org/2021/05/13/qa-minae-mizumura-on-an-i-novel/) - Minae Mizumura is one of Japan’s most respected novelists. Published in 1995, her An I-Novel— a semi-autobiographical work that takes place over the course of a single day in the 1980s—radically broke with Japanese literary tradition. In this Q&A, Mizumura openly shares her thoughts about living in Japan, collaborating with Juliet Winters Carpenter on the
- [Transtopia: A Keyword for Our Century <br><h3>By Howard Chiang</h3></br>](https://cupblog.org/2021/06/01/transtopia-a-keyword-for-our-century-by-howard-chiang/) - My first attempt to bring together Chinese studies and transgender studies dates to a conference I organized in 2009. That conference resulted in an edited volume called Transgender China (2012). Not long after the book appeared, I discovered that my approach had been crippled by the available categories. Some Anglophone readers criticized the ways in
- [Challenged Friendships in Challenging Times <br><h2>From the Introduction to <i>U.S. Strategy in the Asian Century</i><br><h3>By Abraham Denmark</h3></br>](https://cupblog.org/2021/06/17/challenged-friendships-in-challenging-times-from-the-introduction-to-u-s-strategy-in-the-asian-centuryby-abraham-denmark/) - As the twenty-first century seems to be dominated by great power competition between China and the United States, everyone wonders whether war will come and how to avoid it. In U.S. Strategy in the Asian Century: Empowering Allies and Partners, Abraham M. Denmark argues that the United States will only find the route to security
- [Q&A:  Pai Hsien-yung on Chinese Notions of the Afterlife and <i>The Story of the Stone</i>](https://cupblog.org/2021/09/07/qa-pai-hsien-yung-on-chinese-notions-of-the-afterlife-and-the-story-of-the-stone/) - The Story of the Stone (also known as Dream of the Red Chamber) is widely held to be the greatest work of Chinese literature. Embedded in the novel is a biting critique of imperial China’s political and social system. The narrative is cast within a mythic framework in which the protagonist’s rebellion against Confucian strictures
- [I-Novel, You-Novel, True-Novel, False-Novel <h3>By Jeremy Tiang</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2021/09/16/i-novel-you-novel-true-novel-false-novel-by-jeremy-tiang/) - “Compared to the world of novels—of the imagination—the real world was a letdown.” ~Minae Mizumura, Inheritance from Mother (tr. Juliet Winters Carpenter) Lo Yi-Chin’s Faraway tells the story of a man named Lo Yi-Chin, also a Taiwanese novelist, who embarks on a frantic journey to mainland China after his father, there for a visit, succumbs
- [A Soviet Futurist in Beijing <h2>Sergei Tretyakov’s Internationalist Aesthetics<h2> <h3>Edward Tyerman</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2022/01/26/a-soviet-futurist-in-beijing-sergei-tretyakovs-internationalist-aesthetics-edward-tyerman/) - “You are travelling to Beijing. You must write travel notes. But not just as notes for yourself. No, they must have social significance.” These are the opening words of “Moscow—Beijing,” a 1925 travel sketch written by the Soviet writer Sergei Tretyakov. An immensely talented poet, playwright, journalist, and theorist, Tretyakov has long lain in the
- [Nancy Woloch on <i>The Insider: A Life of Virginia C. Gildersleeve</i>](https://cupblog.org/2022/03/15/nancy-woloch-on-the-insider-a-life-of-virginia-c-gildersleeve/) - As dean of Barnard College from 1911–1947, Virginia C. Gildersleeve promoted the value of the liberal arts, defended women’s intellectual capacities, and filled a leading role in higher education. She also sought a role in foreign policy. At the peak of her career, she served as the sole woman member of the U.S. delegation to
- [Reflections on International Women’s Day and Chinese History <h3>Elizabeth LaCouture</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2022/03/08/reflections-on-international-womens-day-and-chinese-history-elizabeth-lacouture/) - On International Women’s Day, March 8, 1942, the author Ding Ling published her “Thoughts on March 8” in the Yan’an Soviet newspaper. She opened with a question: “When will it no longer be necessary to attach special weight to the word ‘woman’ and to raise it specially?” Her answer critiqued the ways “woman” had been
- [Stephanie D. Preston in Conversation with Robyn Massey About  <i>The Altruistic Urge </i>](https://cupblog.org/2022/03/04/stephanie-d-preston-in-conversation-with-robyn-massey-about-the-altruistic-urge/) - From the Good Samaritan to Wesley Autry, who jumped in front of a train to save another, stories of altruism fascinate people for many reasons. We are struck by these self-sacrificing acts, and moved by such heroism. Why do ordinary people perform acts of astonishing selflessness, sometimes even putting their lives on the line? In The
- [Jon Wilson in Conversation with Alisa Freedman on <i>Japan on American TV</i>](https://cupblog.org/2022/03/02/jon-wilson-in-conversation-with-alisa-freedman-on-japan-on-american-tv/) - The Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Asia Shorts book series—distributed by Columbia University Press—offers concise, engagingly written titles by highly qualified authors on topics of significance in Asian Studies. Topics are intended to be substantive, generate discussion and debate within the field, and attract interest beyond it. The most recent book in the series, Japan
- [Where Are the Women Writers? <h2>The Missing Literature of Japan’s Edo Period</h2> <h3>By G. G. Rowley</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2021/08/17/where-are-the-women-writers-the-missing-literature-of-japans-edo-period-by-g-g-rowley/) - Writing by Japanese women flourished from the late tenth through the early fourteenth centuries. Almost all of the surviving works from this period have now been translated into English, some more than once, and many are available in editions suitable for classroom use, among them The Sarashina Diary. In recent years, the reception of Japanese
- [Mongolia’s Women Writers <h3>By Simon Wickhamsmith</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2021/08/10/mongolias-women-writers-by-simon-wickhamsmith/) - Since the Soviet-backed 1921 revolution, Mongolia’s writers have worked to find responses both to traditional genres and themes and to the Russian and Euro-American styles, and the three women writers whose work is translated in Suncranes and Other Stories—S. Udval (1921–1991), L. Ölziitögs (b. 1972), and H. Bolor-Erdene (b. 1975)—offer a number of entry points
- [The Gender Problem in Economics: How Did We Get Here? <h3>Ann Mari May, PhD</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2022/01/05/the-gender-problem-in-economics-how-did-we-get-here-ann-mari-may-phd/) - The American Economic Association and indeed the public at large are slowly awakening to the realization that the gender problem in the dismal science is profound and measurable. Women are underrepresented in all stages of the academic hierarchy. They receive only about a third of doctorates in economics, they are less likely to be promoted
- [Andy Secher in Conversation with Robyn Massey about <i>Travels with Trilobites</i>](https://cupblog.org/2022/02/25/andy-secher-in-conversation-with-robyn-massey-about-travels-with-trilobites/) - For thirty years before delving more fully into the Paleozoic world of trilobites, Andy Secher was a key behind-the-scenes figure in the rock and roll industry. He was not only the long-time editor of the popular and influential hard rock magazine, Hit Parader, but also the president of Titanium Records, a label distributed through the
- [Revised Excerpt from the Epilogue of <i>The Sexual Politics of Black Churches</i> <h3>Josef Sorett</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2022/02/24/the-sexual-politics-of-black-churches-epilogue-josef-sorett/) - The Sexual Politics of Black Churches began as an idea that grew from an event organized in response to a set of public debates over ten years ago. Surprisingly, what the book presents to readers is no less relevant today, even as the social context and conversations taking place around the book’s subject have significantly
- [Gary L. Francione on <i>Why Veganism Matters</i>](https://cupblog.org/2022/02/24/gary-l-francione-on-why-veganism-matters/) - Most people think that animals matter morally. That is, they reject the view, popular in the West up until the nineteenth century, that animals are just things that are excluded completely from the moral and legal community. They think that it is wrong to make animals suffer. But they also don’t think that there is
- [Caitlin Hurst and Ada Smailbegović on <i>Poetics of Liveliness</i> (Part 1)](https://cupblog.org/2021/12/01/caitlin-hurst-and-ada-smailbegovic-on-poetics-of-liveliness-part-1/) - Ada Smailbegović’s new book Poetics of Liveliness investigates the ways twentieth- and twenty-first-century poets have intermingled scientific methodologies with poetic form to reveal unfolding processes of change. The book shifts across scales to describe the subtly changing realms of molecules, fibers, tissues, and clouds. It explores works such as Christian Bök’s insertion of a poetic
- [Richard Ambron in Conversation with Robyn Massey About <i>The Brain and Pain</i>](https://cupblog.org/2022/02/14/richard-ambron-in-conversation-with-robyn-massey-about-the-brain-and-pain/) - For forty years, Richard Ambron directed a neuroscience lab at the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University. This experience makes him uniquely qualified to explain not only how pain happens, but also how to think about and treat pain. In The Brain and Pain, Ambron does just that. He also shares valuable
- [Stephen Ross in Conversation with Robyn Massey on <i>Chimpanzee Memoirs</i>](https://cupblog.org/2022/02/04/stephen-ross-in-conversation-with-robyn-massey-about-chimpanzee-memoirs/) - Chimpanzees fascinate people for many reasons. The apes’ resemblance to humanity, as seen in their use of tools and their complex social lives, can awe us. But what moves someone to dedicate their lives to chimpanzees? In this conversation, Stephen Ross, coeditor of Chimpanzee Memoirs: Stories of Studying and Saving Our Closest Living Relatives, opens up
- [Emerging Markets: Damned If They Do, Damned If They Don’t <h3>Lorenzo Forni</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2022/01/07/emerging-markets-damned-if-they-do-damned-if-they-dont-lorenzo-forni/) - The COVID-19 pandemic has already had large negative effects on emerging economies. When the crisis hit, most emerging economies were in relatively good shape from a macroeconomic point of view. Their central banks were successfully adopting inflation targeting, exchange rates were flexible and could be used to correct external imbalances, reserves were replenished, and external
- [James Davis on the History of the Blackface Performance](https://cupblog.org/2019/02/13/james-davis-on-the-history-of-the-blackface-performance/) - This week we're celebrating Black History Month with this guest post by James Davis, author of Eric Walrond: A Life in the Harlem Renaissance and the Transatlantic Caribbean. In this post, he discusses the blackface performance. Enter our drawing for a chance to win a copy of the book. • • • • • • The blackface controversy
- [Hubert Harrison: “The Father of Harlem Radicalism”<br><h3>By Jeffrey B. Perry</h3></br>](https://cupblog.org/2020/08/16/hubert-harrison-the-father-of-harlem-radicalismby-jeffrey-b-perry/) - “This is a superb study of a neglected but powerfully influential figure in African American history. Jeffrey B. Perry’s scholarship is formidable; his documentation, impeccable; his writing, lucid and graceful. If his promised second volume is as admirable and compelling as his first, then we would have to count him, with gratitude, among the finest
- [Video: Lance Freeman on "What makes Harlem Special?"](https://cupblog.org/2020/08/18/lance-freeman-on-what-makes-harlem-special/) -  “In A Haven and a Hell, Lance Freeman seeks to amplify the relationship between 'the ghetto' as a place, policy, and idea and as a black experience, source of resistance, and community. Using multiple places and narratives, this book renders 'the ghetto' as not only multifaceted but also critical to understanding the contemporary conditions
- [Video: Bruce D. Haynes on "What Makes Harlem Special?"](https://cupblog.org/2020/08/20/bruce-d-haynes-on-what-makes-harlem-special/) -  “Bruce D. Haynes's story is a classic American tale—which combines the big themes of history with the gritty reality of a single family's extraordinary story.” ~Jeffrey Toobin, staff writer at The New Yorker and senior legal analyst at CNN Bruce D. Haynes is professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California,
- [Video: Introducing Ms. Donna Haskins and <i>Take Back What the Devil Stole</i>](https://cupblog.org/2020/12/02/introducing-ms-donna-haskins-and-take-back-what-the-devil-stole/) -  “Like Karen McCarthy Brown's Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn, this study of an impossibly ordinary life grabs you and refuses to let go, even as it offers new insights into a hidden spiritual world.” Stephen Prothero, author of Why Liberals Win (Even When They Lose Elections): How America's Raucous, Nasty, and Mean "Culture Wars" Make
- [Hubert Harrison and Contemporary Struggles for Racial Equality <br><h3>By Jeffrey B. Perry</h3></br>](https://cupblog.org/2021/01/09/hubert-harrison-and-contemporary-struggles-for-racial-equalityby-jeffrey-b-perry/) - “This long-awaited final volume guides us through the last decade of Harrison’s life, when he played a major role in the political upheavals and cultural transformations that shaped Harlem in the wake of the First World War. Thanks to Perry’s definitive portrait, it will no longer be possible to overlook the fierce and flinty polymath
- [Capitalism and the Economic Lives of Enslaved People <br><h3>By Justene Hill Edwards</h3></br>](https://cupblog.org/2021/04/14/capitalism-and-the-economic-lives-of-enslaved-people-by-justene-hill-edwards/) - In 1805, one of enslaved peoples’ greatest fears came true for a man named Charles Ball. His enslaver sold the thirty-year-old to a slave trader bound for the Carolinas and Georgia, far from his family in Maryland. Ball was funneled into the domestic slave trade during a period of dramatic economic growth in America. The
- [Race and the History of Capitalism <br><h3>By Destin Jenkins and Justin C. Leroy</h3></br>](https://cupblog.org/2021/04/14/race-and-the-history-of-capitalism-by-destin-jenkins-and-justin-c-leroy/) - In 1983, Cedric J. Robinson popularized the term “racial capitalism,” referring to the way that the violent dispossessions inherent to capital accumulation operate by creating, leveraging, and intensifying racial distinctions. But he did not invent the term. It first cohered around the struggle to end apartheid and white supremacy in 1970s South Africa, provoking contentious
- [The Complicated Legacy of Black Patriotism <br><h3>By Justene Hill Edwards</h3></br>](https://cupblog.org/2021/07/26/the-complicated-legacy-of-black-patriotism-by-justene-hill-edwards/) - Black people have been in the United States since before its founding. Though they have fought in every major military conflict in American history, African Americans have engaged in an uphill battle to force this nation to uphold the lofty ideals inscribed in its founding documents. Unfortunately, African Americans must still fight for equality in
- [Wonder Woman 1984 (2020): The Villain We Deserve and the Hero We Need? <h3><b3>By Terence McSweeney and Rebecca Cohen </h3></br>](https://cupblog.org/2021/03/17/wonder-woman-1984-2020-the-villain-we-deserve-and-the-hero-we-need-by-terence-mcsweeney-and-rebecca-cohen/) - Arriving at the end of a year in which cinemas around the globe had spent much of the time with their doors closed, Patty Jenkins’s Wonder Woman 1984 (2020) was one of only a few American superhero films even released in 2020, alongside Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey (2020), Bloodshot (2020), and The New Mutants
- [Q&A: Kathleen Cummins on <i>Herstories on Screen</i>](https://cupblog.org/2021/03/29/qa-kathleen-cummins-on-herstories-on-screen/) - Kathleen Cummins is a film professor in the Faculty of Animation, Arts, and Design at Sheridan College. She is also a filmmaker whose work has been broadcast and screened internationally. In this Q&A she discusses her new book Herstories on Screen: Feminist Subversions of Frontier Myths. Q: What is Herstories on Screen about? Kathleen Cummins:
- [Ellen Jones in Conversation with Erín Moure on Multilingual Translation (Part 1)](https://cupblog.org/2022/01/05/ellen-jones-in-conversation-with-erin-moure-on-multilingual-translation-part-1/) - In Literature in Motion: Translating Multilingualism Across the Americas, I think about how authors and translators can use the defamiliarizing and disruptive potential of literary multilingualism to resist conventions of form and dominant narratives about language and gender. One of the book’s case studies is Erín Moure’s Paraguayan Sea, a multilingual translation of Brazilian writer Wilson
- [Ellen Jones in Conversation with Erín Moure on Multilingual Translation (Part 2)](https://cupblog.org/2022/01/06/ellen-jones-in-conversation-with-erin-moure-on-multilingual-translation-part-2/) - Continuing the conversation with Literature in Motion author Ellen Jones and poet-translator Erín Moure, today’s installment explores the permeability of language. Interested in the fluid and the multilingual, Moure invites readers to join her in the joy of engaging with writing that inhabits the seams of cultures, dialects, and readability. Moure declares, “I’m not afraid
- [Announcing the 2022 Columbia University Press Economics Catalog <h3>Featuring Titles from Columbia Business School Publishing</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2022/01/07/announcing-the-2022-columbia-university-press-economics-catalog-featuring-titles-from-columbia-business-school-publishing/) - Click on the down arrow above to download the PDF. Letter from the Editor of Columbia Business School Publishing: As the founding publisher of the Columbia Business School Publishing imprint, I am honored to present our recent and forthcoming authors and titles. We seek to bridge leading academic thought and professional practice to move the fields
- [Announcing the 2022 Columbia University Press History Catalog](https://cupblog.org/2022/01/06/announcing-the-2022-columbia-university-press-history-catalog/) - Click on the down arrow above to download the PDF. Letter from the Editors: We are pleased to present the 2022 history catalog from Columbia University Press. We have a slate of new books that interrogate the lasting global legacies of war and conflict, hidden histories of New York, American POWs in the Cold War, and
- [Leah DeVun in Conversation with Olivia Treynor on <i>The Shape of Sex</i>](https://cupblog.org/2022/01/07/leah-devun-in-conversation-with-olivia-treynor-on-the-shape-of-sex/) - Does gender exist in the Garden of Eden? To a modern reader familiar with Christian belief, Adam and Eve may represent the very origin of binary bodies. Leah DeVun’s The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance challenges this familiar narrative, tracing the ways in which perceptions of gender and sex have
- [Announcing the 2022 Columbia University Press Literary Studies Catalog](https://cupblog.org/2022/01/06/announcing-the-2022-columbia-university-press-literary-studies-catalog/) - Click on the down arrow above to download the PDF. Letter from the Editors: Thank you for your interest in Columbia University Press’s new books in literary studies. Amid the many crises we continue to confront, reading and studying literature continues to provide important ways for us to understand our world and each other. We
- [Columbia University Press Signs Lisa M.P. Munoz for a Book Inspired by the Documentary Film <i>Picture a Scientist</i> on Creating a New Culture of Equity for Women Scientists](https://cupblog.org/2021/12/14/columbia-university-press-signs-lisa-m-p-munoz-for-a-book-inspired-by-the-documentary-film-picture-a-scientist-on-creating-a-new-culture-of-equity-for-women-scientists/) - Miranda Martin, Editor in Physical and Life Sciences for Columbia University Press, recently signed seasoned science writer Lisa M.P. Munoz to a contract for worldwide rights for her first book, tentatively titled A New Picture of a Scientist: Creating a New Culture for Science That Overcomes Obstacles in Equity. The signing includes a collaboration with
- [Announcing the Columbia University Press Spring 2022 Catalog](https://cupblog.org/2021/12/06/announcing-the-columbia-university-press-spring-2022-catalog/) - Click on the down arrow above to download a PDF of our Spring 2022 catalog. Dear Readers, Close to two years have now passed since the pandemic imposed new limits on all of us. Many of Columbia’s authors have responded by reflecting on what’s close at hand, showing how seeing the everyday in a new
- [Caitlin Hurst and Ada Smailbegović on Poetics of Liveliness (Part 2)](https://cupblog.org/2021/12/06/caitlin-hurst-and-ada-smailbegovic-on-poetics-of-liveliness-part-2/) - Today’s post continues our interview with Ada Smailbegović about her book Poetics of Liveliness. Read the first part of Smailbegović and Hurst’s conversation, where they discuss rhythm and materiality, the world held at the edge of a razor, and how a silkworm might write a poem. In this portion of the interview, further imaginative and
- [The Tip of the Iceberg: Why Pop Culture Creators Should Dig Deep in Research <h3>By Jordan Mechner</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2021/09/28/the-tip-of-the-iceberg-why-pop-culture-creators-should-dig-deep-in-research-by-jordan-mechner/) - When I build a fictional world for a book, video game, or film/TV project, I spend months doing research. Whether the setting is history, fantasy, or the present day, my research investments always pay huge creative dividends.People sometimes think of research as getting details right—names of streets and flowers, how people are dressed, what kind
- [Announcing Our 2021-2022 Business and Economics Catalog](https://cupblog.org/2021/07/28/announcing-our-2021-2022-business-and-economics-catalog/) - Letter from the editor: As the founding publisher of the Columbia Business School Publishing imprint, I am honored to present our recent and forthcoming authors and titles. We seek to bridge leading academic thought and professional practice in order to contribute to moving the fields forward in finance, investment, digital business, innovation, and social enterprise.
- [Indigenous Culture Through the Lens of Resistance and Narrative](https://cupblog.org/2021/11/24/indigenous-culture-through-the-lens-of-resistance-and-narrative/) - Both President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have promised to fight climate change —but their pipeline policies tell a different story. The narrative surrounding both Line 3 and the Trans Mountain Pipeline is that those in power can continue to extract resources from the earth with no care for those who say otherwise.
- [Reflections On Adversity: An AUP RoundUP <h3> By Olivia Treynor </h3>](https://cupblog.org/2021/10/15/reflections-on-adversity-an-aup-roundup-by-olivia-treynor/) - As I began writing this post around the twentieth anniversary of 9/11, the subject of conflict and recovery from tragedy felt like an urgent subject, especially given that New York and the rest of the world were observing the solemn day amid the ongoing global devastation of COVID-19. Against this backdrop, I wanted to explore
- [To Make The World Porous: An AUP RoundUP <br><h3>By Olivia Treynor</h3></br>](https://cupblog.org/2021/07/22/to-make-the-world-porous-an-aup-roundup-by-olivia-treynor/) - This week, I read blog posts from other academic presses through the lens of “opening” and all the things that can mean. UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESSTO LOOSEN THE BOUNDS OF THINGS… I arrived at this post’s project after reading Hilda Raz’s lyrical guest post in the UNP blog, in which Raz writes:And here’s the truth—I
- [This Must Be the Place <h3>by Olivia Treynor</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2021/11/23/this-must-be-the-place-by-olivia-treynor/) - After recently going to a concert for the first time since the onset of the pandemic, I’ve been thinking a lot about physical space. It’s what allows us to gather, but it’s also something with history, an opportunity for artistic expression, and the subject of some fascinating and truly varied UP blog posts. Haunted houses,
- [Announcing Our 2021-2022 Religion Catalog](https://cupblog.org/2021/11/19/announcing-our-2021-2022-religion-catalog/) - Letter from the Religion Editor: Dear friends, colleagues, authors, and scholars of religion and beyond—and a special hello to those attending AAR/SBL either in person or virtually: I’m especially enthusiastic about the three books featured on the opening page. I could not be more excited to offer you Jack Miles’ and Mark Taylor’s A Friendship
- [Q&A: Milenda Lee Interviews Lisa Hamm on the Evolution of Book Design and Production Over the Course of a Twenty-Two-Year Career](https://cupblog.org/2021/11/10/qa-milenda-lee-interviews-lisa-hamm-on-the-evolution-of-book-design-and-production-over-the-course-of-a-twenty-two-year-career/) - This year marks the tenth anniversary of University Press Week, an annual celebration in which university presses (UPs) come together to bring to light the contributions of UP publishing. This year’s theme, “Keep UP,” focuses on the ways UP publishing has evolved in the past decade. Today, in particular, the AUP Blog Tour discussion focuses on innovation. A
- [Book Excerpt! <i>Politics for Social Workers</i> <h3>By Stephen Pimpare</i>](https://cupblog.org/2021/11/05/book-excerpt-politics-for-social-workers-by-stephen-pimpare/) - Policy historians write about the two “big bangs” of U.S. welfare state development—the New Deal programs of the 1930s and the Great Society programs of the 1960s. You might encounter others describing these moments as “critical junctures.” Could March 2020 and the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic have marked the beginning of a third big
- [Announcing Our 2021 Social Work Catalog](https://cupblog.org/2021/11/04/announcing-our-2021-social-work-catalog/) - Letter from the editor: I am pleased to share the 2021 Columbia University Press social work catalog. At what we hope is the tail end of a long pandemic, this fall semester marks a return to some kind of normality. It is not the same normality that we left in the spring of 2020, and
- [Announcing Our 2021-2022 Science Catalog](https://cupblog.org/2021/11/03/announcing-our-2021-2022-science-catalog/) - Letter from the editor: Thank you for picking up the Columbia University Press science catalog and for supporting our mission to share scientific knowledge. As we live through a second year of this pandemic, I’ve found a lot of comfort and meaning in publishing books that inspire and delight general readers, help educate students, and
- [Cryptocurrency, Speculation, and How We Imagine the Future <h3>By Gayle Rogers</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2021/10/27/cryptocurrency-speculation-and-how-we-imagine-the-future-by-gayle-rogers/) - Bitcoin, Dogecoin, Ethereum. Now there’s Polkadot and Pancake Swap. Much about the world of cryptocurrency can feel bewildering, like money is being conjured as a “dream within a dream,” to quote Edgar Allan Poe. In many ways, though, there’s nothing new about this; only the technology has changed. In my new book, Speculation: A Cultural
- [Announcing the Winner of the Seventh Annual Columbia University Press Distinguished Book Award](https://cupblog.org/2021/10/19/announcing-the-winner-of-the-seventh-annual-columbia-university-press-distinguished-book-award/) - Columbia University Press, in conjunction with the Office of the Provost, is pleased to announce that I Am the People: Reflections on Popular Sovereignty Today by Partha Chatterjee is the winner of the seventh annual Columbia University Press Distinguished Book Award. Partha Chatterjee is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Middle Eastern, South Asian and African
- [Announcing the Winner of the First Annual Columbia University Press Distinguished Book Award](https://cupblog.org/2015/09/22/announcing-the-winner-of-the-first-annual-columbia-university-press-distinguished-book-award/) - Columbia University Press, in conjunction with the Office of the Provost of Columbia University, is pleased to announce that Wael B. Hallaq is the winner of the first annual Columbia University Press Distinguished Book Award for his book "The Impossible State: Islam, Politics, and Modernity’s Moral Predicament."
- [Columbia University Press Announces the Winner of the Fourth Annual Columbia University Press Distinguished Book Award](https://cupblog.org/2018/10/03/columbia-university-press-announces-the-winner-of-the-fourth-annual-columbia-university-press-distinguished-book-award/) - Pictured at the 2018 Columbia University Press Distinguished Book Award ceremony (from left to right): Jennifer Crewe, Associate Provost and Director Columbia University Press; Neil Krishan Aggarwal, Winner 2018 Columbia University Press Distinguished Book Award; Jane Gaines, Chair Faculty Publication Committee and Co-Chair Distinguished Book Award Jury; John Coatsworth, Provost, Columbia University. Columbia University Press,
- [Announcing The Winner Of The Fifth Annual Columbia University Press Distinguished Book Award](https://cupblog.org/2019/10/03/announcing-the-winner-of-the-fifth-annual-columbia-university-press-distinguished-book-award/) - Columbia University Press, in conjunction with the Office of the Provost, honored Adam Reich, an associate professor of sociology, and Peter Bearman, the Cole Professor of the Social Sciences and director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theories and Empirics, for their publication Working for Respect: Community and Conflict at Walmart at the fifth annual Columbia University Press
- [Announcing the Winner of the Sixth Annual Columbia University Press Distinguished Book Award](https://cupblog.org/2020/10/13/announcing-the-winner-of-the-sixth-annual-columbia-university-press-distinguished-book-award/) - Columbia University Press, in conjunction with the Office of the Provost of Columbia University, is pleased to announce that A Haven and a Hell: The Ghetto in Black America by Lance Freeman is the winner of the sixth annual Columbia University Press Distinguished Book Award. Lance Freeman is a professor in the Urban Planning Program
- [Q&A: Thomas Heise on <i>The Gentrification Plot</i>](https://cupblog.org/2021/10/12/qa-thomas-heise-on-the-gentrification-plot/) - For decades, crime novelists have set their stories in New York City, a place long famed for decay, danger, and intrigue. What happens when the mean streets of the city are no longer quite so mean? In this Q&A, Thomas Heise, an assistant professor of English at Penn State (Abington) and the author of The
- [National Translation Month 2021! A Celebration of Diverse Voices <h3>By Olivia Treynor</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2021/09/01/national-translation-month-2021-a-celebration-of-diverse-voices-by-olivia-treynor/) - Welcome to National Translation Month 2021! Founded eight years ago, National Translation Month is an annual celebration of global literature. This September, we are excited to present an eclectic mix of books. Ranging from a beloved Persian epic to a queer Taiwanese cyberpunk novel to a nonfiction account of Paris before the First World War,
- [Our Parents' Things—A Father's Day Reflection <br><h3>By David Ekerdt</h3></br>](https://cupblog.org/2020/06/21/our-parents-things-a-fathers-day-reflection-by-david-ekerdt/) - “Downsizing is a must-read; chock-full of wisdom gleaned from interviews with hundreds of older adults who have gifted, donated, or sold their “stuff” before relocating to a smaller home. Ekerdt’s masterful writing poignantly reveals why parting with cherished possessions is such a meaningful life transition.” ~Deborah Carr, author of Golden Years? Social Inequality in Later
- [Take a Tour of Our CSWE Virtual Booth with Stephen Wesley](https://cupblog.org/2020/11/16/take-a-tour-of-our-cswe-virtual-booth-with-stephen-wesley/) - Welcome to the virtual book exhibit for the 2020 annual program meeting of the Council on Social Work Education.Over the next few days, we’ll be sharing a few posts that highlight new and forthcoming titles.If I were to pick a theme tying these books together, it would be “social work with the overlooked.” Social workers
- [Why Should Social Workers Care About Sex Positivity? <br><h3>By SJ Dodd</h3></br>](https://cupblog.org/2020/11/17/why-should-social-workers-care-about-sex-positivity-by-sj-dodd/) - “In Sex-Positive Social Work, SJ Dodd shows how to translate social work’s strengths- and justice-based commitments into practice related to sexuality. Such knowledge and skills are vital to social workers’ ability to promote the sexual rights, well-being, and dignity of all clients.” ~Laina Bay-Cheng, University at Buffalo Social workers engage with sex and sexuality in all
- [Aging People in Prison and Caring Justice <br><h3>By Tina Maschi</h3></br>](https://cupblog.org/2020/11/18/aging-people-in-prison-and-caring-justice-by-tina-maschi/) - “Aging Behind Prison Walls fills a gap in the research literature by providing both quantitative and qualitative data not available elsewhere. Enriched by extensive data and compelling personal narratives, it offers a portrait of prison life that is comprehensive and fascinating.” ~Katherine van Wormer, coauthor of Women and the Criminal Justice System More than 200,000
- [Browse Our SPEP 2021 Virtual Exhibit Booth with Wendy Lochner](https://cupblog.org/2021/09/23/browse-our-spep-2021-virtual-exhibit-booth-with-wendy-lochner/) - Welcome to the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP)’s first virtual meeting! Although I will miss seeing everyone in person, Zoom is a vast improvement on cancellation, and this meeting is a tribute to everyone who came together to make it happen. As always, I love to have the opportunity to talk about philosophy
- [Presidential Pardons: A History of Healing Divisions Through Reconciliation <h3>By Graham G. Dodds</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2021/09/29/presidential-pardons-a-history-of-healing-divisions-through-reconciliation-by-graham-g-dodds/) - Before the assault on the Capitol nine months ago, the question of how to deal with a domestic rebellion probably struck most Americans as an antiquarian hypothetical. After all, aside from the Civil War, the country hasn’t had much experience with Americans fighting their own government, has it It has. Repeatedly throughout American history, substantial groups
- [Take a Tour of Our APSA 2020 Virtual Booth with Stephen Wesley](https://cupblog.org/2020/09/10/take-a-tour-of-our-apsa-2020-virtual-booth-with-stephen-wesley/) - Hello and welcome to the Columbia University Press virtual exhibit booth for this year’s meeting of the American Political Science Association. We would have loved to see you in San Francisco, but so long as the coronavirus pandemic is with us, virtual conferences will have to do.Usually just one of our editors attends a conference
- [Heath Brown on <i>Homeschooling the Right</i>](https://cupblog.org/2020/09/10/heath-brown-on-homeschooling-the-right/) - “In this exciting book, Heath Brown enlarges our understanding of conservative public policies and their relation to American political development, helps situate the homeschooling movement within the larger “New Right” enterprise, and offers a novel theory of conservative freedom policies as they operate through and outside of the state.” ~Kristin Goss, author of The Paradox
- [Browse Books in Political Theory with Wendy Lochner](https://cupblog.org/2020/09/11/browse-books-in-political-theory-with-wendy-lochner/) - Hi, I’m Wendy Lochner, the editor responsible for political theory and political philosophy. By now you know that we are participating in the virtual APSA meeting, introducing new books, posting new author blogs and videos, and offering discounts and book giveaways. My colleagues Caelyn Cobb and Stephen Wesley have told you about their exciting new
- [Video: Bernard E. Harcourt Asks, "Can Critical Theory Change the World?"](https://cupblog.org/2020/09/11/bernard-e-harcourt-asks-can-critical-theory-change-the-world/) -  “Today the paradigm has shifted and praxis must be posed as subjectivation. If before the problem consisted in responding to ‘What is to be done?,’ today the question is ‘What more am I to do?’ Harcourt thus transforms critical philosophy into a manifesto of ethical engagement.” ~Antonio Negri, coauthor of Empire "Can critical theory
- [Book Giveaway! <i>Stories from the Field</i>](https://cupblog.org/2020/09/12/book-giveaway-stories-from-the-field/) - “The breadth of life experience captured in this collection is the reason this volume has great pedagogical potential. A lot of graduate students will flip to find their academic heroes and crushes and then keep reading. Authors are writing with different agendas, but always in a first-person voice. The effect is to give the volume
- [Browse Books in Global Politics with Caelyn Cobb](https://cupblog.org/2020/09/12/browse-books-in-global-politics-with-caelyn-cobb/) - The world may be on pause, but politics—and the study of it—continues apace. From gender and globalization to comparative politics and methodology, the global politics list at Columbia University Press is here to help you keep up. This spring saw the release of two big-think politics books. The first of these, the authoritative The First
- [The Rebirth of Praxis <br><h3>By Bernard E. Harcourt</h3></br>](https://cupblog.org/2020/09/13/the-rebirth-of-praxis-by-bernard-e-harcourt/) - “With his typical combination of erudition, eloquent argument, and theoretical clarity, Bernard Harcourt now gives us a complete account of his reading of contemporary critical philosophy, articulating it with immediate issues in the field of human rights and democratic politics. A tour de force which will give readers much to learn and much to think
- [Announcing Our 2021-2022 Politics and International Affairs Catalog](https://cupblog.org/2021/09/20/announcing-our-2021-2022-politics-and-international-affairs-catalog/) - Letter from the editors: Greetings and welcome to the Columbia University Press 2021–2022 catalog for politics and international affairs. In international relations, we are pleased to publish the first book in our series Columbia Studies in International Order and Politics, Making War on the World: How Transnational Violence Reshapes Global Order, by Mark Shirk. This
- [Ukraine: Life After Nord Stream 2 <h3>By Margarita M. Balmaceda</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2021/09/29/ukraine-life-after-nord-stream-2-by-margarita-m-balmaceda/) - Much has been written about the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline, the second set of lines of the Nord Stream pipeline, which transports natural gas from Russia to Germany under the Baltic Sea without going through the territory of traditional transit partners such as Ukraine. This second line would double the system’s initial capacity
- [<i>You and Your Profile: Identity After Authenticity</i> <h3>A Quiz and Book Excerpt</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2021/09/23/you-and-your-profile-identity-after-authenticity-a-quiz-and-book-excerpt/) - More and more, we present ourselves and encounter others through profiles. A profile shows us not as we are seen directly but how we display ourselves to a broader public. As we observe how others observe us, we calibrate our self-presentation accordingly. Profile-based identity is evident everywhere from pop culture to politics, marketing to morality.
- [Of Understanding Experience and the Experience of Understanding <h3>By Sonam Kachru</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2021/09/23/of-understanding-experience-and-the-experience-of-understanding-by-sonam-kachru/) - Time was when the words of Vasubandhu, the influential Buddhist philosopher from Peshawar (fl. late fourth–early fifth centuries C.E.), could be imagined to be part of the ecology of a place—as when the Sanskrit poet Bāṇabhaṭṭa intimated that Vasubandhu’s Treasury of [Buddhist] Metaphysics was so popular, so often debated and discussed, that even the parrots
- [Book Excerpt! A New Culture of Energy: Beyond East and West (introduction) <h3>By Luce Irigaray and translated by Stephen Seely, Stephen Pluháĉek, and Antonia Pont</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2021/09/23/book-excerpt-a-new-culture-of-energy-beyond-east-and-west-introduction-by-luce-irigaray-and-translated-by-stephen-seely-stephen-pluhacek-and-antonia-pont/) - We are delighted to publish A New Culture of Energy: Beyond East and West by philosopher/psychoanalyst Luce Irigaray. In her most accessible and personal work yet, she tells her own story of how she began to practice yoga and came to be influenced by the philosophies of T. K. V. Desikachar, radically changing her life
- [Q&A: Ari Larissa Heinrich and Chi Ta-wei on <i>The Membranes</i>](https://cupblog.org/2021/09/14/qa-ari-larissa-heinrich-and-chi-ta-wei-on-the-membranes/) - First published in Taiwan in 1995, Chi Ta-wei’s The Membranes is a classic of queer speculative fiction in Chinese. Predicting everything from fitness tracking to social media saturation, this visionary and sublime novel stands out for its queer and trans themes. In this Q&A, translator Ari Larissa Heinrich (professor of Chinese literature and media at
- [Susan Emanuel on Translating <i>The Belle Époque</i>](https://cupblog.org/2021/09/30/susan-emanuel-on-translating-the-belle-epoque/) - The cover image for The Belle Époque: A Cultural History, Paris and Beyond typifies how most people conceive of the period before 1914, when the First World War broke out. Nobody at the time used the term Belle Epoque, which was retrospectively applied to an age of supposed insouciance before the war, the centerpiece being
- [Announcing Our 2021-2022 Philosophy Catalog](https://cupblog.org/2021/09/13/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 philosophy, philosophy of science, philosophy of gender, and Asian philosophy, reflect the interdisciplinary and global
- [A Unicorn in Moscow’s Boulevards <h3>By Jonathan Stone</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2021/09/23/a-unicorn-in-moscows-boulevards-by-jonathan-stone/) - I’ve never spotted a centaur in Moscow. So far. And it hasn’t been for want of trying. Every time I walk around the serene lake at the Novodevichy Monastery (the same enchanted spot that inspired Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake), I scan the bank for creatures with the body of a horse and head of a human.
- [Yury Tynyanov's <i>The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar</i>: A Deathless Novel <h3>By Anna Kurkina Rush</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2021/09/21/yury-tynyanovs-the-death-of-vazir-mukhtar-a-deathless-novel-by-anna-kurkina-rush/) - The short life of Yury Tynyanov (1896-1943) spanned some of the most traumatic upheavals of the twentieth century: world wars, revolutions, the Russian Civil War, the dark years of military communism, the waves of Stalinist purges, and the Great Terror. He always claimed that this gave him a keener understanding of history in the making:
- [Enacting Environmental Stewardship by Acting Locally](https://cupblog.org/2019/11/06/enacting-environmental-stewardship-by-acting-locally/) - “Talking the environmental talk is one thing, but if you want to walk the walk, too, Karl Coplan's book will tell you how to do it and how to do it happily.” ~Colin Beavan, author of How To Be Alive and No Impact Man It's University Press Week and discussing today's theme about environmental stewardship
- [Women in Translation Month 2021! A Journey from East to West <h3>By Olivia Treynor</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2021/08/01/women-in-translation-month-2021-a-journey-from-east-to-west-by-olivia-treynor/) - Welcome to Women in Translation Month 2021! Seven years ago, blogger and academic Meytal Radzinski took a critical look at the publishing landscape and noticed that the world of translated literature was heavily male-dominated. Reflecting on this gender disparity and wanting to create change, Radzinski started Women in Translation Month, an annual celebration of works
- [What's in a Word: An AUP RoundUP <h3>By Olivia Treynor</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2021/09/03/whats-in-a-word-an-aup-roundup-by-olivia-treynor/) - With one month-long celebration of women in translation literature behind us and another month of commemorating world literature in progress, I’ve been thinking about language: how language shapes our perception of our reality, how language shifts, how we communicate as an increasingly globalized society. As Ellen Jones writes of Minae Mizumura’s An I-Novel for the CUP
- [Does Literature Have to Be Monolingual? <h2>Ellen Jones on Minae Mizumura's <i>An I-Novel</i> and Multilingualism in Translation</h2>](https://cupblog.org/2021/08/31/does-literature-have-to-be-monolingual-ellen-jones-on-minae-mizumuras-an-i-novel-and-multilingualism-in-translation/) - Japanese writer Minae Mizumura’s An I-Novel was originally published in 1995 under the title Shishōsetsu: From Left to Right, to huge uproar. It is a reworking of the traditional “shishōsetsu” or “I novel,” a modernist Japanese autofictional genre that is typically “narrated as if they were the author’s true confessions, while allowing fiction ample play.”
- [Browse Our AoM 2021 Virtual Exhibit Booth with Myles Thompson](https://cupblog.org/2021/07/30/browse-our-aom-2021-virtual-exhibit-booth-with-myles-thompson/) - Socially distanced greetings, I’m Myles Thompson, the publisher for Columbia Business School Publishing. Because we are meeting virtually this year, I want to invite you to our Academy of Management virtual book exhibit on the Columbia University Press Blog. I am honored to present our recent and forthcoming authors and titles for the Columbia Business
- [Q&A: Juliet Winters Carpenter on Translating Minae Mizumura’s <i>An I-Novel</i>](https://cupblog.org/2021/08/24/qa-juliet-winters-carpenter-on-translating-minae-mizumuras-an-i-novel/) - Minae Mizumura’s An I-Novel, published in 1995, radically broke with Japanese literary tradition by liberally incorporating English words and phrases and printing the entire text horizontally, to be read from left to right, rather than vertically and from right to left. This semi-autobiographical bilingual work that once appeared untranslatable is now available in English thanks to
- [<i>“You Aren’t the Center, but the Radius”</i> <br><h3>Irina Shevelenko on Maria Stepanova’s  <i>Kireevsky</i>, with translations by Eugene Ostashevsky </h3></br>](https://cupblog.org/2021/04/22/you-arent-the-center-but-the-radius-irina-shevelenko-on-maria-stepanovas-kireevsky-with-translations-by-eugene-ostashevsky/) - “The chill of having no place […] is the only thing that gives poetry a chance not to participate in the parade of general achievements, not to wind up as a passkey that opens the doors for a third-party, external meaning. In this situation opacity seems like the only choice: a murky, closed, unpopular, unentertaining,
- [An August Cemetery and the Ridiculous Task of the Translator <h3>By Maria Vassileva</h3>](https://cupblog.org/2021/08/03/an-august-cemetery-and-the-ridiculous-task-of-the-translator-by-maria-vassileva/) - Maria Stepanova’s essay “Over Venerable Graves” is the very last text in our volume The Voice Over, but it opens the collection in which it was first published in Russian.[i] Its first paragraph serves as the cover image of that book, set in blue against an orange background—“Here’s what happened,” Stepanova says—though the cover excludes
- [Regulating Family Offices Is Not the Answer <br><h3>By Bill Woodson</h3></br>](https://cupblog.org/2021/07/30/regulating-family-offices-is-not-the-answer-by-bill-woodson/) - The recent financial collapse of Archegos Capital Management and the corresponding multi-billion-dollar losses incurred by financial services firms that extended them credit, coupled with the market disruption caused by the panic selling needed to meet margin calls, has resurfaced a debate about whether family offices should be more strictly regulated. This concern was evident in
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- [Proving Hamlet Wrong: Doubt and Action in the Life of Albert Hirschman <br><h3>By Michele Alacevich</h3></br>](https://cupblog.org/2021/01/05/proving-hamlet-wrong-doubt-and-action-in-the-life-of-albert-hirschman-by-michele-alacevich/) - “This wonderful book offers new insights on a giant of the social sciences. Alacevich places Hirschman’s work in intellectual context and traces its long arc of influence to our day.” —Dani Rodrik, author of Straight Talk on Trade: Ideas for a Sane World Economy Today’s featured AEA post comes to use from Michele Alacevich, author
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- [Announcing Our 2021-2022 Sociology Catalog](https://cupblog.org/2021/07/20/announcing-our-2021-2022-sociology-catalog/) - Letter from the editor: It is with great pleasure that, on behalf of my colleagues at Columbia University Press, I introduce this year’s sociology catalog. The books in this catalog exemplify the quality of scholarship that we prize, and they reflect the interdisciplinary and thematic approach that we take to publishing. We remain in interesting
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- [Weekly RoundUp](https://cupblog.org/2018/02/02/22490/) - By Joanne Raymond Great news everyone, the weekly roundup is back! Each Friday, staff member Joanne Raymound will be posting a brief overview of the latest news from academic publishers. As always, if you enjoy something or think that we missed an important post, please let us know in the comments. (And look back at
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- [Browse Our UAA 2021 Virtual Exhibit Booth with Lowell Frye](https://cupblog.org/2021/04/20/browse-our-uaa-2021-virtual-exhibit-booth-with-lowell-frye/) - Hello, and welcome to Columbia University Press’s virtual booth for the 2021 Urban Affairs Association Annual Meeting! My name is Lowell Frye and I’m an associate editor here at the press, acquiring books in urban studies. This is the second consecutive year we’ve hosted the exhibit booth virtually, and I have to say that I’m
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- [Join Lowell Frye on a Tour of Our UAA 2020 Virtual Exhibit Booth](https://cupblog.org/2020/04/02/join-lowell-frye-on-a-tour-of-our-uaa-2020-virtual-exhibit-booth/) - Hello, and welcome to Columbia University Press’s virtual booth for the Urban Affairs Association conference! My name is Lowell Frye, and I’m an associate editor here at the press, acquiring books in urban studies. I’m thrilled to be able to give you a quick tour of the booth and to tell you about some of
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- [What's New From the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy](https://cupblog.org/2020/04/04/whats-new-from-the-lincoln-institute-of-land-policy/) - Welcome back to our UAA Virtual Booth! We’re excited to hear from Maureen Clark and Emma Zehner, representing the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, one of our distributed presses, as they introduce two exciting new books for the urban studies audience. • • • • • • Good afternoon! We are here representing the Lincoln
- [Book Excerpt! <i>Reforming the City</i>, by Ariane Liazos (introduction)](https://cupblog.org/2020/04/04/book-excerpt-reforming-the-city-by-ariane-liazos-introduction/) - “A century ago, progressive reformers often thought expertise and nonpartisanship were the solution to extreme polarization and inequality in U.S. politics, as they do now. But Ariane Liazos dramatizes the unintended consequences of changes pursued in hundreds of U.S. cities in the early 1900s. The findings in Reforming the City hold important lessons for today’s democracy reformers,
- [Browse Our OAH 2021 Virtual Exhibit Booth with Stephen Wesley](https://cupblog.org/2021/04/14/browse-our-oah-2021-virtual-exhibit-booth-with-stephen-wesley/) - I am delighted to present the 2021 Columbia University Press new books in American history. The titles featured here demonstrate the vibrancy of Columbia University Press’s program as we continue a long tradition of publishing top scholarship in the field.The last year reminded us of the longstanding racial inequities in America, and so I would like
- [Browse Our ISA 2021 Virtual Exhibit Booth with Caelyn Cobb](https://cupblog.org/2021/04/05/browse-our-isa-2021-virtual-exhibit-booth-with-caelyn-cobb/) - Hello, and welcome to the second annual (and hopefully the last) Columbia University Press International Studies Association Virtual Exhibit Booth! I’m Caelyn Cobb, the editor for global and international politics, coming to you live from my apartment in Queens, New York, where I have long ago swapped my blazers for bathrobes but still carry around
- [Q&A: Raya Morag on the Connection Between Post-Holocaust Studies and Cambodian Perpetrator Cinema](https://cupblog.org/2020/05/13/qa-raya-morag-on-the-connection-between-post-holocaust-studies-and-cambodian-perpetrator-cinema/) - “The book offers front-row seats to a new genre of post-Holocaust global documentary film, with innovative approaches to the study of genocide, trauma, and gender.” ~Ben Kiernan, author of The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power and Genocide in Cambodia Under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79 The year 2020 marks the seventy-fifth anniversary to the end of
- [The Op-Ed in an Evangelical Age <br><h3>By L. Benjamin Rolsky</h3></br>](https://cupblog.org/2020/12/03/the-op-ed-in-an-evangelical-age-by-l-benjamin-rolsky/) - “Rise and Fall should garner a wide and varied audience, and it appears intentionally so. It is self-consciously and transparently situated, adeptly self-described in relation to a number of subfields, scholars, and paradigmatic shifts.” ~CARA BURNIDGE, Society for U.S. Intellectual History Today’s AAR/SBL Annual Meetings Exhibit post comes to us from L. Benjamin Rolsky, author of
- [Shennette Garrett-Scott wins the Darlene Clark Hine Award for <i>Banking on Freedom</i>](https://cupblog.org/2020/04/02/shennette-garrett-scott-wins-the-darlene-clark-hine-award-for-banking-on-freedom/) - We are so pleased to announce that Shennette Garrett-Scott has won the Darlene Clark Hine Award from the Organization for American Historians (OAH) for her book Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal. The Darlene Clark Hine Award is given annually to the author of the best book in African
- [Q&A: Paige Glotzer on <i>How the Suburbs Were Segregated</i>](https://cupblog.org/2020/04/02/qa-paige-glotzer-on-how-the-suburbs-were-segregated/) - “Paige Glotzer’s absorbing, vividly narrated study is a major contribution to the histories of capitalism and of American cities. She shows residential segregation’s roots in longer histories of race and empire, flows of global capital, and the actions of powerful real estate developers long before the era of mass suburbanization. An essential text for understanding
- [Hospice of the Creative Class<br><h3>By Alex Sayf Cummings</br></h3>](https://cupblog.org/2020/04/03/hospice-of-the-creative-classby-alex-sayf-cummings/) - “From tobacco and plow to computer and creative economy, this rich and eloquent history shows how a group of civic leaders put rural North Carolina at the forefront of the postindustrial revolution. In California, they say Silicon Valley is one of a kind; this marvelous book proves otherwise.” ~Fred Turner, author of From Counterculture to
- [Q&A: Kaeten Mistry on <i>Whistleblowing Nation</i>](https://cupblog.org/2020/04/05/qa-kaeten-mistry-on-whistleblowing-nation/) - In Whistleblowing Nation: The History of National Security Disclosures and the Cult of State Secrecy, editors Kaeten Mistry and Hannah Gurman detail the long American tradition of persecuting those who expose state misdeeds. The twenty-first century witnessed a new age of whistleblowing. Disclosures by Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden, and others have stoked heated public debates
- [Welcome to Our OAH 2020 Virtual Exhibit!](https://cupblog.org/2020/04/02/welcome-to-our-oah-2020-virtual-exhibit/) - Hello, and welcome to our Organization for American Historians (OAH) 2020 virtual exhibit booth. As coronavirus has canceled the spring academic conferences (and most everything else, for that matter), we are moving our conference booth online. Over the next four days, we invite you to spend what would have been the OAH Conference with us
- [Join Stephen Wesley on a Tour of Our OAH 2020 Virtual Booth](https://cupblog.org/2020/04/02/join-stephen-wesley-on-a-tour-of-our-oah-2020-virtual-booth/) - Hello there, I’m Stephen Wesley, the American history editor at Columbia University Press. Since the coronavirus pandemic has canceled most of the spring conferences—the Organization of American Historians annual program included—we are mounting virtual book exhibits on our blog. I am delighted to present the 2020 Columbia University Press new books in American history. The
- [OAH 2020 Happy Hour Reads: New in U.S. History](https://cupblog.org/2020/04/03/oah-2020-happy-hour-reads-new-in-u-s-history/) - Hello, and welcome back to the Columbia University Press Virtual OAH Book Exhibit! Now that the coronavirus pandemic has locked down most nonessential businesses in the country, many of us are finding ourselves stuck at home with lots of time to ourselves. It seems I have a little more time to read these days. In
- [OAH 2020 Happy Hour Reads: New in U.S. and Urban History](https://cupblog.org/2020/04/04/oah-2020-happy-hour-reads-new-in-u-s-and-urban-history/) - Hello, and welcome back to the second edition of Happy Hour Reads at the Columbia Virtual OAH Book Exhibit. This evening, we invite you to read excerpts from two brand new Columbia books that would have debuted at OAH. • • • • • • Just Like Us: The American Struggle to Understand Foreigners In
- [Book Excerpt! <i>For Nirvana: 108 Zen Sijo Poems</i> by Cho Oh-Hyun](https://cupblog.org/2018/09/08/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 introduction “On Musan Cho Oh-Hyun’s Sijo” and several poems translated by Heinz Insu Fenkl. •
- [Q&A: Mark Garrett Cooper and John Marx on <i>Media U</i>](https://cupblog.org/2018/09/12/mark-garrett-cooper-and-john-marx-on-media-u-qa/) - “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” and what mindsets and strategies they deploy in the process.” ~Lisa Parks, Massachusetts Institute of
- [Not Doing Global Fieldwork (At Least Not Right Now) <br><h3>By Jesse Driscoll<h3></br>](https://cupblog.org/2021/04/05/not-doing-global-fieldwork-at-least-not-right-now-by-jesse-driscoll/) - Many graduate students imagine their comparative advantage will be original data collection. Fieldwork, in this idealized conception, provides an opportunity to (try to) break free of the rigid, sometimes cruel, hierarchical status structures imposed by the ivory tower in a proving ground where different virtues and abilities shine: empathy, people skills, and authencity, as well
- [Welcome to Our ISA 2020 Virtual Exhibit Booth!](https://cupblog.org/2020/03/25/welcome-to-our-isa-2020-virtual-exhibit-booth/) - Aloha! Welcome to our International Studies Association (ISA) 2020 virtual exhibit booth. The global pandemic may have canceled our travel plans and in-person meetings, but luckily we can still congregate in the digital sphere. We’ve relocated our exhibit booth from Hawaii to our blog and we invite you to spend the next four days exploring
- [Join Caelyn Cobb on a Tour of Our ISA 2020 Virtual Exhibit Booth](https://cupblog.org/2020/03/25/join-caelyn-cobb-on-a-tour-of-our-isa-2020-virtual-exhibit-booth/) - As those of you reading this post are aware, the 2020 International Studies Association (ISA) conference was supposed to be in Honolulu, Hawaii. I had an AirBNB with a lanai all ready to go. As far as I can tell from the internet, a lanai is an oversized balcony upon which you can lounge and
- [ISA 2020 Happy Hour Reads: New in International Relations](https://cupblog.org/2020/03/25/isa-2020-happy-hour-reads-new-international-relations/) - Join us for our happy hour reads today with this selection from our ISA 2020 virtual booth. Earlier today, Caelyn Cobb highlighted some of our titles (and linked to some great Hawaiian cocktails). Now’s your chance to sip that mai tai or mango margarita and settle in to peruse these excerpts! • • • •
- [Let's Talk CIAO with Dan LoPreto](https://cupblog.org/2020/03/26/lets-talk-ciao-with-dan-lopreto/) - Hi! I’m Dan LoPreto, the editor of Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO), a research database published by Columbia University Press in collaboration with the Columbia University Libraries. I’m excited to talk about CIAO and answer any questions you may have. CIAO is the world’s largest online resource of documents and articles devoted to research, analysis,
- [Join Caelyn Cobb on a Tour of Our New Books in Current Events](https://cupblog.org/2020/03/26/join-caelyn-cobb-on-a-tour-of-our-new-books-in-current-events/) - If I was at our International Studies Association (ISA) booth right now, I’d probably be fielding a dozen questions like, “What do you have about [insert current event here]?’ The great thing about this field is that you folks are always writing, pumping out relevant books at a truly impressive speed, and we never have
- [ISA 2020 Happy Hour Reads: New Books on Current Events](https://cupblog.org/2020/03/26/isa-2020-happy-hour-reads-new-books-on-current-events/) - Welcome to day 2 of our ISA 2020 virtual booth! Caelyn Cobb started the afternoon off with a tour of our books on current events and now we’re delving deeper with these book excerpts. So once again, grab a drink and settle down to read and better understand today’s ever changing world. • • •
- [Join Caelyn Cobb on an Exploration of Our ISA 2020 Books for Courses](https://cupblog.org/2020/03/27/join-caelyn-cobb-on-an-exploration-of-our-isa-2020-books-for-courses/) - Aloha from Not-Hawaii, friends! Today in our virtual International Studies Association (ISA) booth, I want to share some of our international politics books that would be great choices for courses. Obviously, I think all of our global politics books have course potential, but I’ll highlight just a few here. Survive and Resist: The Definitive Guide
- [ISA 2020 Happy Hour Reads: Books for Courses](https://cupblog.org/2020/03/27/isa-2020-happy-hour-reads-books-for-courses/) - Start your weekend off strong with this selection of excerpts from our ISA 2020 virtual exhibit! As Caelyn Cobb mentioned earlier today, these books would make great additions to a class, so settle in for some course reading inspiration. • • • • • • Survive and Resist: The Definitive Guide to Dystopian Politics After
- [Join Caelyn Cobb on a Tour of Our Featured Book Series at ISA 2020!](https://cupblog.org/2020/03/28/join-caelyn-cobb-on-a-tour-of-our-featured-book-series-at-isa-2020/) - Mahalo for continuing to follow our virtual International Studies Association exhibit! Today I’d like to talk to you about our global politics series. We have a lot of series in this field, because you political scientists love your series. Don’t even try to deny it. People ask about what series I have before they even
- [New Books in International Affairs from Agenda Publishing, Verlag Barbara Budrich, and Ibidem Press](https://cupblog.org/2020/03/28/new-books-in-international-affairs-from-agenda-publishing-verlag-barbara-budrich-and-ibidem-press/) - No trip to the Columbia University Press booth would be complete without a look at what’s new from our distribution partners around the world! This year, we’re very excited to launch a robust list of titles on a wide swath of topics. From Agenda Publishing, we have Tim Summers’s China’s Hong Kong: The Politics of
- [ISA 2020 Happy Hour Reads: Books About Global Politics](https://cupblog.org/2020/03/28/isa-2020-happy-hour-reads-books-about-global-politics/) - Today is the last day of our ISA 2020 virtual exhibit, but we’re not done yet. We are ending with a book sampled from each of our series in international relations. Explore jihadism in Tunisia, nuclear policy in North Korea, and more in our last post for ISA 2020! • • • • • •
- [Browse Our AAS Virtual Exhibit Booth and Our Asian Studies Catalog](https://cupblog.org/2021/03/22/browse-our-aas-virtual-exhibit-booth-and-our-asian-studies-catalog/) - Asian studies is a major focus at Columbia University Press, and all of us who would usually be at the Association for Asian Studies Conference this week are disappointed not to be meeting you in person. We’ve highlighted a small selection of our new titles below, and we hope you will also check out our
- [Browse Our SCMS 2021 Virtual Exhibit Booth](https://cupblog.org/2021/03/17/browse-our-scms-2021-virtual-exhibit-booth/) - While we are disappointed not to be able to attend the SCMS conference in person, we are very excited to share with you some recent and forthcoming books from our film and media studies list. We are happy to offer a 20 percent discount on all these books; just use the code SCMS when ordering
- [Movie Clips from Bombay Hustle <br><h3>By Debashree Mukherjee</h3></br>](https://cupblog.org/2021/03/17/movie-clips-from-bombay-hustle-by-debashree-mukherjee/) - In Bombay Hustle, I revisit the transition to talkies in India with a focus on material practice and techniques of film production. One of my biggest challenges while researching for this book was the fragile and fragmented nature of the official archives of Indian cinema.Approximately 95 percent of the films made in India during the
- [Announcing Our 2021 Film, Media, and Journalism Studies Catalog](https://cupblog.org/2021/03/17/announcing-our-2021-film-media-and-journalism-studies-catalog/) -  Letter from the editors: We are very excited to be sharing with you the 2021 Film, Media, and Journalism Studies catalog. The recent resurgence of interest in the work of William Greaves is complemented and enhanced by the publication of William Greaves, edited by Scott MacDonald and Jacqueline Najuma Stewart. The book is the
- [Introducing ASIA SHORTS: Small Volumes with a Big Message: Strong Scholarship for a Wide Audience <br><h3>By Bill Tsutsui, Asia Shorts series editor and Jon Wilson, AAS Publications Manager</h3></br>](https://cupblog.org/2021/03/22/introducing-asia-shorts-small-volumes-with-a-big-message-strong-scholarship-for-a-wide-audience-by-bill-tsutsui-asia-shorts-series-editor-and-jon-wilson-aas-publications-manager/) - In our information-saturated lives, there is much to appreciate in the expression of important, timely, and complex ideas in forms that are focused, clear, and concise. Brevity need not signify superficiality nor suggest any lack of ambition or effort. As the philosopher Blaise Pascal once famously stated, “I would have written a shorter letter, but
- [Early Photography in China <br><h3>By Shengqing Wu</h3></br>](https://cupblog.org/2021/03/22/early-photography-in-china-by-shengqing-wu/) - Chinese poetry, painting, and calligraphy have a long history of interaction and harmonious integration. But in the nineteenth century, photography was introduced into China: what happened when the brush encountered the shutter? In Photo Poetics, I explore the dynamics of transplanting photography into China, addressing how Chinese pictorial and writing traditions accommodated and responded to
- [Eric Schluessel in Conversation with David Brophy about Xinjiang History](https://cupblog.org/2021/03/22/eric-schluessel-in-conversation-with-david-brophy-about-xinjiang-history/) - Columbia University Press has published two groundbreaking new books on Xinjiang history, David Brophy’s In Remembrance of the Saints: The Rise and Fall of an Inner Asian Sufi Dynasty and Eric Schluessel’s Land of Strangers: The Civilizing Project in Qing Central Asia. The authors sat down to discuss sources, methods, and what these books mean
- [Announcing Our 2020 Film, Media, and Journalism Studies Catalog](https://cupblog.org/2020/03/31/announcing-our-2020-film-media-and-journalism-studies-catalog/) - Letter from the editors: We are pleased to be sharing with you Columbia University Press’s 2020 Film, Media, and Journalism Studies catalog. The books featured here reflect the press’s commitment to publishing innovative works examining the multifaceted ways in which film, media, and journalism shape and are shaped by shifting historical, political, and artistic contexts.
- [Welcome to Our SCMS 2020 Virtual Exhibit Booth!](https://cupblog.org/2020/04/01/welcome-to-our-scms-2020-virtual-exhibit-booth/) - We are disappointed that we are not able to attend the Society for Media Studies (SCMS) Annual Conference. We will miss all the great conversations and sense of community. Since the COVID-19 virus has many of us sitting home and practicing social distancing, we thought we’d relocate our booth from the mile-high city to your
- [Join Philip Leventhal on a Tour of Our New Books from the Film and Culture Series](https://cupblog.org/2020/04/01/join-philip-leventhal-on-a-tour-of-our-new-books-from-the-film-and-culture-series/) - Hello, my name is Philip Leventhal, and I acquire new books in film and media studies at Columbia University Press. SCMS is always one of my favorite conferences, so it is particularly disappointing not to be able to attend this year because of the coronavirus pandemic. I will miss the many fun and stimulating conversations
- [Continue Your Exploration of New Books in Film Studies with Philip Leventhal](https://cupblog.org/2020/04/02/continue-your-exploration-of-new-books-in-film-studies-with-philip-leventhal/) - Yesterday, I talked about some new books from our Film and Culture series. I did not want to overwhelm you with too much information, so here are four more books we recently published in film studies that I am also very excited about. As with the titles in the Film and Culture series, these books
- [Q&A: Claudia Breger on <i>Making Worlds</i>, and What Films to Watch While Social Distancing](https://cupblog.org/2020/04/03/qa-claudia-breger-on-making-worlds-and-what-films-to-watch-while-social-distancing/) - “Claudia Breger’s Making Worlds is a vital contribution to the political dimensions of contemporary film and media theory. Breger’s meticulous readings of contemporary cinema create generative openings in impasses that have petrified debate over the past three decades, developing models of cinematic worldmaking for critically feeling out the possibilities of creative assemblage and collective assembly in the
- [Join Ryan Groendyk in a Conversation About Wallflower](https://cupblog.org/2020/04/03/join-ryan-groendyk-in-a-conversation-about-wallflower/) - Welcome to the Wallflower table, it’s nice to see you again! I’m Ryan Groendyk, the editor for Wallflower. You may have heard (from me, most likely) that Wallflower became a true imprint of Columbia University Press a few years ago, and since then I’ve been pushing the list in some interesting new directions—as well as
- [There’s More to 3D Than Meets the Eye <br><h3>By Nick Jones</h3></br>](https://cupblog.org/2020/04/04/theres-more-to-3d-than-meets-the-eye-by-nick-jones/) - “This book’s highly polished arguments situate digital 3D cinema within major debates about the role of the image in contemporary society as well as related structures of power. Jones’s historical focus and interaction with significant visual culture debates situate the unique contribution this book has to offer.” ~Miriam Ross, author of 3D Cinema: Optical Illusions
- [<i>Chromatic Modernity</i> Wins the Katherine Singer Kovács Book Award!](https://cupblog.org/2020/04/04/chromatic-modernity-wins-the-katherine-singer-kovacs-book-award/) - A big congratulations to Sarah Street and Joshua Yumibe, whose book Chromatic Modernity: Color, Cinema, and Media of the 1920s was awarded The Katherine Singer Kovács Book Award. This beautifully written and illustrated book tells a fascinating story of technological and intermedial development. It’s particularly disappointing that we couldn’t celebrate in person—we even had a
- [Ten Masterpieces of Experimental Cinema](https://cupblog.org/2020/04/05/ten-masterpieces-of-experimental-cinema/) - The following list by Justin Remes, author of Motion(less) Pictures: The Cinema of Stasis and the forthcoming Absence in Cinema: The Art of Showing Nothing, considers ten canonical experimental films. You can also watch the films below. • • • • • • “I don’t like experimental films.” “What experimental films have you seen?” “Well,
- [New Books in Film and Media Studies from Auteur, transcript publishing, and the Austrian Film Museum](https://cupblog.org/2020/04/05/new-books-in-film-and-media-studies-from-auteur-transcript-publishing-and-the-austrian-film-museum/) - No visit to the CUP tables at SCMS would be complete without a look through the exciting new titles we’ve brought from our distribution partners. New from Auteur First up is the Auteur table, where you’ll find numerous new titles and books for both students and cinephiles. New this year in the Devil’s Advocates series,
- [Anxious Afterthoughts on <i>Anxious Cinephilia</i> <br><h3>by Sarah Keller</h3></br>](https://cupblog.org/2020/04/05/anxious-afterthoughts-on-anxious-cinephilia-by-sarah-keller/) - “Anxious Cinephilia gives us the most far-reaching theorization of cinephilia yet. This exploration of desire and anxiety as twin impulses unearths novel connections across film cultures, affective states, and moments of technological change, from early cinema to cinematic spectacle in the digital era. Keller produces a fascinating remapping of the shifting relationship between the spectator
- [Book Excerpt! <i>Buying Gay: How Physique Entrepreneurs Sparked a Movement</i>](https://cupblog.org/2019/06/25/book-excerpt-buying-gay-how-physique-entrepreneurs-sparked-a-movement/) - “This deeply researched book expands our understanding of pre-Stonewall gay male activism by describing a bold group of physique photographers, magazine publishers, and booksellers who were more militant than the Mattachine Society and built a far larger constituency through their explicit portrayal and defense of homoerotic desire. A revelatory and compelling history.” ~ George Chauncey,
- [The Religious Left on the Rise Again? Let's Wait and See <br><h3>By L. Benjamin Rolsky</h3></br>](https://cupblog.org/2021/03/15/the-religious-left-on-the-rise-again-lets-wait-and-see-by-l-benjamin-rolsky/) - In January, Joseph R. Biden was sworn in as the forty-sixth president of the United States. As New York Times columnist Ross Douthat recently observed, the inauguration was a “very American-Catholic spectacle” because it represented a moment in which the public face of American religious life, one shaped largely by white conservative Protestants, was disrupted
- [Yuhang Li on <i>Becoming Guanyin</i>](https://cupblog.org/2020/03/03/yuhang-li-on-becoming-guanyin/) - “Yuhang Li is, by training, an art historian. However, her take on Guanyin goes beyond the realms of art history. Li analyzes the female portrayal of Guanyin through paintings, material culture of embroidery, theatrical display of dance, archaeological objects, scripture, and literature. This is truly an interdisciplinary work.” ~Chün-fang Yü, author of Kuan-yin: The Chinese Transformation
- [Book Excerpt! <i>Becoming Guanyin</i>, Yuhang Li (introduction)](https://cupblog.org/2020/03/05/book-excerpt-becoming-guanyin-yuhang-li-introduction/) - “Yuhang Li is, by training, an art historian. However, her take on Guanyin goes beyond the realms of art history. Li analyzes the female portrayal of Guanyin through paintings, material culture of embroidery, theatrical display of dance, archaeological objects, scripture, and literature. This is truly an interdisciplinary work.” ~Chün-fang Yü, author of Kuan-yin: The Chinese
- [Book Excerpt! <i>Peace on Our Terms,</i>by Mona L. Siegel (prologue)](https://cupblog.org/2020/03/06/book-excerpt-peace-on-our-termsby-mona-l-siegel-prologue/) - “A stunning retelling of the Great War’s aftermath and how women rose up at the war’s end to demand a different and better world. Siegel’s evocative prose transports us back in time and around the world as women from east, west, north, and south descend on Versailles in pursuit of their rights. Peace on Our Terms is
- [Feminist Curious Steps Through History: Illumination in Dark Times <br><h2> By Ayşe Gül Altınay</h2></br>](https://cupblog.org/2020/03/08/feminist-curious-steps-through-history-illumination-in-dark-times-by-ayse-gul-altinay/) - “This is more than an extraordinary book—it is a fascinating journey around the world. It links the North and Global South through Europe, Chile, Turkey, and the United States in the name of innovative feminist practices able to rethink, reframe, and give new insight into memories of a traumatic past and difficult present. Showing the
- [How the Harvey Weinstein Verdict Changed the Credibility of Women's Testimony <br><h3>By Leigh Gilmore</h3></br>](https://cupblog.org/2020/03/08/how-the-harvey-weinstein-verdict-changed-the-credibility-of-womens-testimony-by-leigh-gilmore/) - “In this moving and transformative text, Leigh Gilmore explores the different ways that women's testimonies are made incredible. With patience and care, Gilmore explores how testimonies circulate, how they keep open histories that have yet to be resolved, and how testimonies become tainted because of who as well as what they point to. This insightful
- [The First Political Order and Its Effects on Governance and National, Human, and Environmental Security<br><h3>By Valerie M. Hudson</br></h3>](https://cupblog.org/2020/03/09/the-first-political-order-and-its-effects-on-governance-and-national-human-and-environmental-securityby-valerie-m-hudson/) - “From now on, there will be no more separating questions of politics and peace from the treatment of the females. Those days are over. Thanks to Valerie Hudson and her team of global researchers, we have a long, practical, intimate way of diminishing violence and increasing democracy.” ~Gloria Steinem In this Women's History Month, post
- [Book Excerpt! <i>Women Mobilizing Memory</i>, edited by Ayşe Gül Altınay, María José Contreras, Marianne Hirsch, Jean Howard, Banu Karaca, and Alisa Solomon](https://cupblog.org/2020/03/09/book-excerpt-women-mobilizing-memory-edited-by-ayse-gul-altinay-maria-jose-contreras-marianne-hirsch-jean-howard-banu-karaca-and-alisa-solomon/) - “This volume confirms a shift of paradigm in the field of memory studies, linking it now to the mobilizing force of historical imagination... Opposed to revisionism, these authors probe more deeply into the past than positivist histories have ever done, following the flash of possibility into the future. A brilliant, timely, and singular volume.” ~Judith
- [Q&A: Lynne Nielsen on Writing <i>The First Political Order</i>](https://cupblog.org/2020/03/10/qa-lynne-nielsen-on-writing-the-first-political-order/) - “The First Political Order’s description of the pervasive damaging social consequences of institutionalized male dominance, based on a fascinating new dataset, makes devastating reading. The authors say that their findings should be foundational for any discussion about national or international security. Their argument is lucid, hugely important, and entirely convincing.” ~Richard Wrangham, author of The
- [The Syndrome and the First Political Order<br><h3>By Donna Lee Bowen</h3></br>](https://cupblog.org/2020/03/11/the-syndrome-of-the-first-political-orderby-donna-lee-bowen/) - “The First Political Order is a magisterial tour de force that transforms our understanding of international relations. Hudson, Bowen, and Nielsen provide a comprehensive and meticulous examination of how the systematic subordination of women around the world affects every critical outcome in world politics.” ~Rose McDermott, Brown University We are continuing our feature of The
- [Learning to Doubt: An Excerpt from <i>Tainted Witness</i>, by Leigh Gilmore](https://cupblog.org/2020/03/11/learning-to-doubt-an-excerpt-from-tainted-witness-by-leigh-gilmore/) - “In this moving and transformative text, Leigh Gilmore explores the different ways that women's testimonies are made incredible. With patience and care, Gilmore explores how testimonies circulate, how they keep open histories that have yet to be resolved, and how testimonies become tainted because of who as well as what they point to. This insightful
- [Six Negative Effects of the Systematic Subordination of Women](https://cupblog.org/2020/03/12/six-negative-effects-of-the-systematic-subordination-of-women/) - “In The First Political Order, Hudson and her collaborators make the case that the subordination of women is irrefutably tied to the well-being of a nation. Skeptical? The hard data is here, drawn from an exhaustive survey of 176 countries in the WomanStats project. This is the definitive work that ends the debate about the consequences
- [Book Excerpt! <i>The Hillary Doctrine</i>, by Valerie M. Hudson and Patricia Leidl (foreword and preface)](https://cupblog.org/2020/03/12/book-excerpt-the-hillary-doctrine-by-valerie-m-hudson-and-patricia-leidl-foreword-and-preface/) - “From now on, no debate about national or global policy can proceed without reading The Hillary Doctrine by Valerie Hudson and Patricia Leidl. It is the first book about high level efforts to create a foreign policy as if women mattered.” ~Gloria Steinem Our discussion about gender and the role it plays in international affairs continues today with
- [Book Excerpt! <i>The First Political Order</i>, by Valerie M. Hudson, Donna Lee Bowen, and Perpetua Lynne Nielsen (introduction)](https://cupblog.org/2020/03/13/book-excerpt-the-first-political-order-by-valerie-m-hudson-donna-lee-bowen-and-perpetua-lynne-nielsen-introduction/) - “The First Political Order offers the strongest possible proof that male control of reproduction—and the violence necessary to control women's bodies—is the first step in normalizing violence and hierarchy in every society. From now on, there will be no more separating questions of politics and peace from the treatment of the females.” ~Gloria Steinem To
- [Book Excerpt! <i>Sex and World Peace</i>, By Valerie M. Hudson, Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill, Mary Caprioli, and Chad F. Emmett (chapter 1)](https://cupblog.org/2020/03/14/book-excerpt-sex-and-world-peace-by-valerie-m-hudson-bonnie-ballif-spanvill-mary-caprioli-and-chad-f-emmett-chapter-1/) - “This is an important, well written, and informative book that will serve a wide audience of graduate and undergraduate students, academics, and policymakers, as well as the interested public.” ~Helen M. Kinsella, Ethics and International Affairs We are excited to have Sex and World Peace, by Valerie M. Hudson, Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill, Mary Caprioli, and Chad
- [It’s Not About the Beards<br><h3> By Lexi Jamieson Marsh</h3></br>](https://cupblog.org/2020/03/16/its-not-about-the-beards-by-lexi-jamieson-marsh/) - “The Bearded Lady Project is a necessary novelty. It’s snarky, beautiful, and increasingly powerful in the evolution of its message: Don’t ever assume you know what a scientist looks like. These essays—critical, poignant examinations of societal and historical perceptions of genius—remind us how much scientists have to say about the world in which their research takes
- [Book Excerpt! <i>The Bearded Lady Project</i>, edited by Lexi Jamieson Marsh and Ellen Currano (foreword)](https://cupblog.org/2020/03/18/book-excerpt-the-bearded-lady-project-edited-by-lexi-jamieson-marsh-and-ellen-currano/) - “The portraits in The Bearded Lady Project intentionally cause double takes, forcing the viewer to look, then look again. But their real power lies in how they require us to look inward and see that antediluvian ideas about who can and cannot do science still linger. The accompanying stories of remarkable women in paleontology make one
- [Book Excerpt! <i>Manchu Princess, Japanese Spy</i>, By Phyllis Birnbaum (chapter 17)](https://cupblog.org/2020/03/19/book-excerpt-manchu-princess-japanese-spy-by-phyllis-birnbaum-chapter-17/) - “Richly illustrated with rare photos, and enlivened by numerous interviews, Phyllis Birnbaum's book is a balanced, well-written biography of one of the most notorious figures to emerge in the early twentieth-century contest for empire in northeast Asia. Anyone interested in the personal dimension of Sino-Japanese relations during the period of their most problematic intensity will
- [Q&A: Raya Morag on the #MeToo Movement, Cambodian Cinema, and the Case of Forced Marriage and Rape](https://cupblog.org/2020/03/24/qa-raya-morag-on-the-metoo-movement-cambodian-cinema-and-the-case-of-forced-marriage-and-rape/) - “This compelling book will matter as long as mass atrocities persist. Focused on the Cambodian genocide, Morag addresses a new phase in how we confront such events: films where survivors confront perpetrators face-to-face. These confrontations bring the visceral truth borne directly of human encounter to the fore with consequences both intensely personal and profoundly political.”
- [Sapphic Foucault<br> <h3>By Lynne Huffer</h3></br>](https://cupblog.org/2020/03/30/sapphic-foucault-by-lynne-huffer/) - “Foucault's Strange Eros challenges its readers to describe aptly, to touch delicately their seeking, mortal, embodied selves. The book elicits and sustains their interest. It rejoices on some pages to weep on others, but it is animated throughout by generous reading and creative responding.” ~Mark Jordan, author of Convulsing Bodies: Religion and Resistance in Foucault We
- [Media Roundup: Books With Strong Female Characters](https://cupblog.org/2019/03/28/books-with-strong-female-characters/) - In celebration of Women’s History Month, today we are featuring fictional works with strong female characters. In each of these stories, readers experience a place in time through the eyes and experiences of the protagonist(s).Enter the giveaway for a chance to win one of the following books!• • • • • • Media Roundup There
- [Media Roundup: Biographies, Memoirs, and Letters About Women in History](https://cupblog.org/2019/03/29/media-roundup-biographies-memoirs-and-letters-about-women-in-history/) - In celebration of Women’s History Month, today we are featuring books about women. From collections of letters to biographies to one story about a Manchu princess turned spy, each work highlights the achievement and power of womanhood and the female role in society.Enter the giveaway for a chance to win one of the following books!•
- [Media Roundup: Books About New York City History Authored by Women, or Includes Essays by Women](https://cupblog.org/2019/03/30/media-roundup-books-about-new-york-city-history-authored-by-women-or-includes-essays-by-women/) - It’s the second to last day of Women’s History Month. From a colorful look at Anthony Comstock’s attempt to rid New York City of vice, to a collection of essays that shed light on the politics and ideals of the 1960s, to a book that discusses the ongoing debate of academic freedom, these recent releases
- [Media Roundup: Books in Business and Leadership Authored by Women](https://cupblog.org/2019/03/31/media-roundup-books-in-business-and-leadership-authored-by-women/) - In celebration of Women’s History Month, today we are featuring books about business and leadership and planning for retirement, authored by women.Enter the giveaway for a chance to win one of the following books!• • • • • • Business and Leadership ResetBusiness and Society in the New Social LandscapeJames Rubin and Barie Carmichael Reset traces
- [Media RoundUp and Excerpts! Books in Film, Media, and Museum Studies Authored By Women](https://cupblog.org/2019/03/31/media-roundup-and-excerpts-books-in-film-media-and-museum-studies-authored-by-women/) - It’s the last day of Women’s History Month and your last chance to enter our drawing to win any of the titles featured in this month’s celebration.This afternoon we’re providing media roundups and excerpts of film and museum studies books authored by women. From a discussion on the gender politics in Hollywood to curating content for museums,
- [Black History Month II: Focus on Literature](https://cupblog.org/2008/02/12/black-history-month-ii-focus-on-literature/) - In The Columbia Guide to Contemporary African American Literature, winner of the Before Columbus Foundations 2006 American Book Awards, Darryl Dickson-Carr has written a definitive guide to contemporary African American literature from Ishmael Reed and Toni Morrison to Colson Whitehead and Terry McMillan. Dr. Andrew Radford, Journal of American Studies, writes of the volume "An
- [Black History Month: The Education of Booker T. Washington](https://cupblog.org/2008/02/26/black-history-month-the-education-of-booker-t-washington/) - Continuing our series of postings on Black History Month, we turn to Michael West's The Education of Booker T. Washington: American Democracy and the Idea of Race Relations. In the book, West explores the power and influence of Washington's ideas during his own lifetime and their often negative influence in the continuing struggle for equality
- [Houston Baker on the "Prison-Industrial" Complex](https://cupblog.org/2008/03/14/houston-baker-on-the-prison-industrial-complex/) - According to a new report from the Pew Center on the States, for the first time in the nation's history, more than one in 100 American adults are now in prison. For minority groups the rate is even higher: one in 36 Hispanic adults is in prison and one in 15 blacks is, too, as
- [Houston Baker on Martin Luther King](https://cupblog.org/2008/04/07/houston-baker-on-martin-luther-king/) - This past weekend on the occasion of the anniversary of Martin Luther King's assassination, many commentators explored the legacy on Martin Luther King. In his new book Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era, Houston Baker Jr. argues that black intellectuals on both the left and the right, some
- [Houston Baker on National Public Radio](https://cupblog.org/2008/04/08/houston-baker-on-national-public-radio/) - Houston Baker appeared on NPR's News and Notes yesterday to discuss his book Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era. In the interview Baker discusses his upbringing in Louisville's Little Africa, how Shelby Steele has misread the message and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., continuing racism in the
- [Review of Betrayal](https://cupblog.org/2008/04/17/review-of-betrayal/) - The blog Prometheus 6 has posted an interesting review of Houston Baker's Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era. There is also a video available of Houston Baker participating on a special panel with Richard King, Bob Moses and Ruth Turner Perot to examine Robert Penn Warren's 1965 book
- [Review of Betrayal from the Los Angeles Times](https://cupblog.org/2008/04/21/review-of-betrayal-from-the-los-angeles-times/) - Friday's Los Angeles Times had a review of Houston Baker's Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era. The review offers a very good summary of Baker's argument and his critiques of prominent Black intellectuals: In his new book, "Betrayal," the Vanderbilt University professor and civil rights veteran blasts what
- [An Interview with Houston Baker in Diverse Magazine](https://cupblog.org/2008/05/16/an-interview-with-houston-baker-in-diverse-magazine/) - Interest in Houston Baker's Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Movement continues as evidenced by the interview he gave to Diverse: Issues in Higher Education. You can hear or read the interview. In the interview, Houston Baker talks about his decision to write Betrayal, the difference between Black neoconservatives
- [Interview with Houston Baker on Open Salon](https://cupblog.org/2008/09/04/interview-with-houston-baker-on-open-salon/) - "[I]n the present economy black intellectuals are invited to the grand salon and are asked to sit down at the table, and discuss the next issue of neoconservative declaration of bad black behavior. It’s kind of astonishing from a perspective of intellectual history."—Houston Baker, in an interview with Norman Kelly Salon has launched a beta
- [Frederick Douglass Opie Discusses Soul Food on NPR](https://cupblog.org/2008/10/22/frederick-douglass-opie-discusses-soul-food-on-npr/) - Is soul food healthy? What was the connection between soul food and the Black Power movement of the 1960s? How did European exploration affect West African food? These are just some of the questions that Frederick Douglass Opie, author of Hog and Hominy: Soul Food from Africa to America, discussed in his interview on NPR
- [Black Familial Mourning and Local Presidents: An Election Chronicle, by Houston Baker](https://cupblog.org/2008/11/13/black-familial-mourning-and-local-presidents-an-election-chronicle-by-houston-baker/) - The following essay is by Houston A. Baker, Distinguished University Professor at Vanderbilt University and author the recently published Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era. "A week of rest and reflection has sobered me up almost completely. I am confident enough now to predict that a critical American
- [What Can Be Learned from The Great Depression -- A Post by Frederick Douglass Opie.](https://cupblog.org/2008/11/21/what-can-be-learned-from-the-great-depression-a-post-by-frederick-douglass-opie/) - The following post is from Frederick Douglass Opie, author of Hog and Hominy: Soul Food from Africa to America. After the further unraveling of the global economy in October of 2008, the jobless numbers will be much higher. In response, news shows have been doing stories on lessons learned from the Great Depression. Most of
- ["The Most Exciting and Eagerly Awaited Title from a Scholarly Press." -- Scott McLemee on Hubert Harrison, by Jeffrey Perry](https://cupblog.org/2008/12/10/the-most-exciting-and-eagerly-awaited-title-from-a-scholarly-press-hubert-harrison-by-jeffrey-perry/) - Scott McLemee qualifies this remark somewhat in his Inside Higher Ed article on Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918, admitting that he has been eagerly awaiting this title and he explains why in the article and the accompanying podcast. (However, judging by the reception the book has already received, McLemee is not alone
- [Jeffrey Perry on History News Network](https://cupblog.org/2009/01/21/jeffrey-perry-on-history-news-network/) - On Monday, History News Network published "The Growing Interest in Hubert Harrison," by Jeffrey Perry, author of Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918. Perry begins the essay discussing Harrison's relevance at the dawn of the administration of America's first Black president, and his place in African American history: Considered more race conscious than
- [The End of Black History? -- By Robert L. Harris Jr. and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn](https://cupblog.org/2009/01/22/the-end-of-black-history-by-robert-l-harris-jr-and-rosalyn-terborg-penn/) - Robert L. Harris Jr. and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn are the co-editors of The Columbia Guide to African American History Since 1939 Some pundits have predicted that Barack Obama’s inauguration as the 44th President of the United States spells the end of Black History. That his election as president is the fulfillment of Dr. King’s dream, the
- [Jeffrey Perry -- A DIY Scholar](https://cupblog.org/2009/04/17/jeffrey-perry-a-diy-scholar/) - The Princeton Alumni Weekly recently ran a great article on Do-it-yourself scholars. Among the scholars portrayed in the article is Jeffrey Perry author of the acclaimed and recently published biography Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918. Perry's new book, the first part of a two-part biography, restores Harrison's important place in African American
- [Hubert Harrison as book reviewer](https://cupblog.org/2009/05/07/hubert-harrison-as-book-reviewer/) - Scott McLemee's piece on the Columbia Journalism Review Web site explores Hubert Harrison's role as a book reviewer and critic. Harrison is of course the subject of Jeffrey Perry's new biography, Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918, which McLemee previously wrote about for Inside Higher Ed and the Barnes & Noble Review. As
- [Interview with Houston Baker](https://cupblog.org/2009/05/13/interview-with-houston-baker/) - Voxunion.com has just posted an interview on WPFW with Houston Baker, author of Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era. In the interview, Baker discusses the ways leading Black intellectuals such as Michael Eric Dyson, Cornel West, John McWhorter and others are “traitors” to the tradition exemplified in the
- [Patrick Manning on the Future of Black Identity](https://cupblog.org/2009/05/20/patrick-manning-on-the-future-of-black-identity/) - In the epilogue to The African Diaspora: A History Through Culture, Patrick Manning draws on the history described in his book to explore some key issues, past, present, and future, relating to slavery, racism, reparations, and the advancement of the black community. In this excerpt from the epilogue, Manning considers the future of black identity,
- [Celebrate the Fourth with Hubert Harrison](https://cupblog.org/2009/07/01/celebrate-the-fourth-with-hubert-harrison/) - The coming Fourth of July weekend will no doubt offer up the familiar American images of cookouts and fireworks as well as tributes to former presidents and the founders of the country. However, for those interested in more obscure but equally fascinating American figure, C-SPAN-2 will be re-broadcasting a discussion with Jeffrey Perry, author of
- [The African Diaspora as a Perspective on the World -- A Post by Patrick Manning](https://cupblog.org/2009/07/06/the-african-diaspora-as-a-perspective-on-the-world-a-post-by-patrick-manning/) - The following post by Patrick Manning, author of The African Diaspora: A History Through Culture, originally appeared on the History News Network. When I agreed in 1990 to write a history of the African diaspora, I found it an exciting but frightening task—exciting as a chance to link the work I had done in African
- [Jeffrey Perry on GRITtv with Laura Flanders](https://cupblog.org/2009/07/07/jeffrey-perry-on-grittv-with-laura-flanders/) - Jeffrey Perry, author of Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918, was recently on GRITtv with Laura Flanders to discuss his new book. (Please note, the embedded video is not showing up on some version of IE. Click here to view the video.)
- [Houston Baker on the arrest of Henry Louis Gates](https://cupblog.org/2009/07/22/houston-baker-on-the-arrest-of-henry-louis-gates/) - The following post is by Houston Baker, Distinguished University Professor at Vanderbilt University and the author of many books, most recently Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era. The surreal arrest of Professor Henry Louis "Skip" Gates, Jr. in Cambridge, MA, this week highlights as well as any bizarre
- [Columbia University Press editor on the politics of Black hair](https://cupblog.org/2009/08/28/columbia-university-press-editor-on-the-politics-of-black-hair/) - We were all very excited to see that "Black Hair, Still Tangled in Politics," an article from yesterday's New York Times featured a quote from our colleague Afua Adusei-Gontarz, an assistant editor Columbia University Press (pictured). The article discussed the continuing debate among many African American women about whether or not to straighten their hair
- [Food traditions for New Year's](https://cupblog.org/2009/12/31/food-traditions-for-new-years/) - On his blog Frederick Douglass Opie, author of Hog and Hominy: Soul Food from Africa to America, looks at the history of some culinary traditions observed among African Americans on New Year's Day and also provides some recipes! Opie explains the stories behind why such foods as cranberry sauce, hoppin' john, pork and collard greens
- [Award Winner! The African Diaspora, by Patrick Manning](https://cupblog.org/2010/10/12/award-winner-the-african-diaspora-by-patrick-manning/) - Congratulations to Patrick Manning, whose book The African Diaspora: A History Through Culture was recently named the winner of the 2010 Association of Third World Studies Toyin Falola Africa Book Award. Here's what the judges of the book had to say about the book: "The author is adept at tying together what are seemingly separate
- [Jeffrey Perry Interviewed by Laura Flanders on GRITTV](https://cupblog.org/2010/11/08/jeffrey-perry-interviewed-by-laura-flanders-on-grittv/) - Jeffrey Perry's biography Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918 is now available in paperback. Here is an interview with Jeffrey Perry on Grittv.com with Laura Flanders.
- [Manning Marable](https://cupblog.org/2011/04/04/manning-marable/) - Columbia University Press mourns the loss of Manning Marable, who died over the weekend. Marable, a leading scholar of black history and a leftist critic of American social institutions and race relations, was a valued member of the Columbia University community, where he taught, and a Columbia University Press author. In an obituary in the
- [History News Network Reviews Reds at the Blackboard](https://cupblog.org/2011/07/06/history-news-network-reviews-reds-at-the-blackboard/) - With the recent efforts to weaken teachers' unions and corporate-led "school reform," Clarence Taylor's recently published Reds at the Blackboard: Communism, Civil Rights, and the New York City Teachers Union has taken on a new relevance. The book was recently reviewed by Robert Parmet in the History News Network. Here is an excerpt from the
- [Frederick Douglass Opie on Sylvia Woods and Sylvia's in a Changing Harlem](https://cupblog.org/2012/07/23/frederick-douglass-on-sylvia-woods-and-sylvias-in-a-changing-harlem/) - On the occasion of Sylvia Woods's death last week, Frederick Douglass Opie, author of Hog and Hominy: Soul Food from Africa to America, looked back on her life and the important role her restaurant Sylvia's played in the life of Harlem. Writing for his blog Food as a Lens, Opie outlines the history of Sylvia's
- [A Soul Food Thanksgiving](https://cupblog.org/2012/11/19/a-soul-food-thanksgiving/) - As the recent and wildly successful university press week reminded us, university presses provide readers with a wide range of new ideas and intellectual perspectives. However, as a university press with a list in food studies, Columbia University Press also works with a number of authors, who can offer some more practical advice when it
- [Interview with Mary Helen Washington, author of The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s](https://cupblog.org/2014/04/08/interview-with-mary-helen-washington-author-of-the-other-blacklist-the-african-american-literary-and-cultural-left-of-the-1950s/) - "I’m trying to restore that tradition of mid-century black left radical resistance, so that we don’t remember the 1950s only as the era of 'integration' but as the era of black civil rights radicalism. I’m restoring the other blacklist, the black blacklist."—Mary Helen Washington The following is an interview with Mary Helen Washington, author of
- [Video: Mary Helen Washington on African American and the Communist Party](https://cupblog.org/2014/04/09/video-mary-helen-washington-on-african-american-and-the-communist-party/) - In the following video, Mary Helen Washington, author of The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s, explains how her Catholic upbringing in the 1950s led to an interest in the relationship between African Americans and the Communist Party. She describes how Communist newspaper in the United States became one
- [Excerpt from The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s by Mary Helen Washington](https://cupblog.org/2014/04/10/excerpt-from-the-other-blacklist-the-african-american-literary-and-cultural-left-of-the-1950s-by-mary-helen-washington/) - The following is an excerpt from the introduction to The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s, by Mary Helen Washington. In this excerpt Washington discusses the important, but often overlooked, role of the Communist Party and the radical left in both supporting Black writers and artists as well as
- [The Myth of the Missing Black Father](https://cupblog.org/2014/06/11/the-myth-of-the-missing-black-father/) - "The black male. A demographic. A sociological construct. A media car­icature. A crime statistic.... Rarely a father. Indeed, if one judged by popular and academic coverage, one might think the term 'black fatherhood' an oxymoron." With Father's Day coming up, we'll be featuring some of our books focusing on, not surprisingly, fatherhood. First up is
- [Food, Unions, and Black-Latino Coalitions in New York City -- Frederick Douglass Opie](https://cupblog.org/2015/01/27/food-unions-and-black-latino-coalitions-in-new-york-city-frederick-douglass-opie/) - One of the earliest coalitions among Blacks and Latinos in New York City was among hospital workers at Montefiore hospital in the Bronx. In the following excerpt from Upsetting the Apple Cart: Black-Latino Coalitions in New York City from Protest to Public Office, Fred Opie explores the importance of food in organizing workers and also
- [Interview with Frederick Douglass Opie, author of "Upsetting the Apple Cart"](https://cupblog.org/2015/01/28/interview-with-frederick-douglass-opie-author-of-upsetting-the-apple-cart/) - Read an interview with Frederick Douglass Opie about the history of Black-Latino relations in New York City.
- [The Role of Black and Latino Students in the 1968 Takeover of Columbia University -- Frederick Douglass Opie](https://cupblog.org/2015/01/29/the-role-of-black-and-latino-students-in-the-1968-takeover-of-columbia-university-frederick-douglass-opie/) - Frederick Douglass Opie on how Black and Latino students and student organizations worked with the Harlem community during the 1968 protests at Columbia.
- [The Fate of Black and Latino Politicians in New York City -- Frederick Douglass Opie](https://cupblog.org/2015/01/30/the-fate-of-black-and-latino-politicians-in-new-york-city-frederick-douglass-opie/) - Frederick Douglass Opie on the history and future of Black and Latino politicians in New York City.
- [Interview with Houston Baker and K. Merinda Simmons, editors of The Trouble with Post-Blackness](https://cupblog.org/2015/02/17/interview-with-houston-baker-and-k-merinda-simmons-editors-of-the-trouble-with-post-blackness/) - An interview with Houston Baker and K. Merinda Simmons about their new book "The Trouble with Post-Blackness"
- [Eric Walrond, Harlem Renaissance Forgotten Giant -- James Davis](https://cupblog.org/2015/02/18/eric-walrond-harlem-renaissance-forgotten-giant-james-davis/) - An article on and an upcoming event for "Eric Walrond: A Life in the Harlem Renaissance and the Transatlantic Caribbean," by James Davis
- [The Other Blacklist -- An Interview with Mary Helen Washington](https://cupblog.org/2015/02/19/the-other-blacklist-an-interview-with-mary-helen-washington/) - Mary Helen Washington, author of "The Other Blacklist," discusses how leftist politics shaped African American literature and culture.
- [Mary Helen Washington at the Schomburg Center on Wednesday](https://cupblog.org/2015/03/09/mary-helen-washington-at-the-schomburg-center-on-wednesday/) - Come hear Mary Helen Washington discuss her new book "The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s," Wednesday night with Farah Jasmine Griffin.
- [Interview with James Davis, author of "Eric Walrond," Part 2](https://cupblog.org/2015/03/11/interview-with-james-davis-author-of-eric-walrond-part-2/) - The following is the second half of our article with James Davis, author of Eric Walrond: A Life in the Harlem Renaissance and the Transatlantic Caribbean. You can read part 1 here. Question: One of the more fascinating aspects of your biography are your descriptions of Walrond's youth in Panama during the building of the
- [Thursday Fiction Corner: James Davis on the Writing of Eric Walrond](https://cupblog.org/2015/03/12/thursday-fiction-corner-james-davis-on-the-writing-of-eric-walrond/) - James Davis discusses what makes the writing of Eric Walrond so powerful and distinctive.
- [Two Early Chicago Films Heading to Blu-Ray](https://cupblog.org/2015/03/26/two-early-chicago-films-heading-to-blu-ray/) - The following post is by Michael Smith, co-author with Adam Selzer of Flickering Empire: How Chicago Invented the U.S. Film Industry In the introduction to Flickering Empire, Adam Selzer and I quote film scholar Susan Doll who said that it is Chicago’s “best kept secret” that it served as the nation’s filmmaking capital prior to
- [Becoming Way Too Cool: How Neoliberalism Alters How We Feel](https://cupblog.org/2015/11/09/becoming-way-too-cool-how-neoliberalism-alters-how-we-feel/) - Read a guest post on the complicated history of the concept of "cool" and neoliberalism by Shannon Winnubst, author of WAY TOO COOL: SELLING OUT RACE AND ETHICS.
- [Man-O-Manischewitz -- Roger Horowitz on Kosher Wine and Its Popularity among African Americans](https://cupblog.org/2016/04/21/man-o-manischewitz-roger-horowitz-on-kosher-wine-and-its-popularity-among-african-americans/) - Roger Horowitz and Sammy Davis Jr. on Manischewitz and Kosher wine!
- [Introducing Black Gods of the Asphalt](https://cupblog.org/2016/06/07/introducing-black-gods-of-the-asphalt/) - Read an excerpt from the introduction to BLACK GODS OF THE ASPHALT: RELIGION, HIP-HOP, AND STREET BASKETBALL, by Onaje X. O. Woodbine.
- [Listen to Onaje X. O. Woodbine on All Things Considered](https://cupblog.org/2016/06/08/listen-to-onaje-x-o-woodbine-on-all-things-considered/) - Listen to a fantastic interview with Onaje X. O. Woodbine, author of BLACK GODS OF THE ASPHALT: RELIGION, HIP-HOP, AND STREET BASKETBALL, on NPR's All Things Considered.
- [The Creation of "Black Gods of the Asphalt"](https://cupblog.org/2016/06/09/the-creation-of-black-gods-of-the-asphalt/) - Read an excerpt from an interview of Onaje X. O. Woodbine, author of BLACK GODS OF THE ASPHALT: RELIGION, HIP-HOP, AND STREET BASKETBALL, by Matthew Reed Baker. The interview originally appeared in Boston Magazine.
- [A Media Roundup for "Black Gods of the Asphalt"](https://cupblog.org/2016/06/10/a-media-roundup-for-black-gods-of-the-asphalt/) - Catch up on all the media coverage of Onaje X. O. Woodbine's BLACK GODS OF THE ASPHALT: RELIGION, HIP-HOP, AND STREET BASKETBALL
- [Introducing Down the Up Staircase: Three Generations of a Harlem Family](https://cupblog.org/2017/04/18/introducing-down-the-up-staircase-three-generations-of-a-harlem-family/) - Read an excerpt from the preface to DOWN THE UP STAIRCASE: THREE GENERATIONS OF A HARLEM FAMILY, by Bruce D. Haynes and Syma Solovitch!
- [Soul Dollars](https://cupblog.org/2017/04/19/soul-dollars/) - Read an excerpt from DOWN THE UP STAIRCASE: THREE GENERATIONS OF A HARLEM FAMILY, by Bruce D. Haynes and Syma Solovitch!
- [Book Giveaway! <i>Down the Up Staircase: Three Generations of a Harlem Family</i>](https://cupblog.org/2018/02/05/book-giveaway-down-the-up-staircase-three-generations-of-a-harlem-family-2/) - This week, our featured book is Down the Up Staircase: Three Generations of a Harlem Family, by Bruce D. Haynes and Syma Solovitc. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book and its author on our blog as well as on our Twitter feed and our Facebook page. Loading...
- [Book Excerpt! <i>The Freedom Schools: Student Activists in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement</i>](https://cupblog.org/2019/01/21/book-excerpt-the-freedom-schools-student-activists-in-the-mississippi-civil-rights-movement/) - “The activists and young learners who made the Freedom Schools possible have greatly gone unsung. In the midst of imminent danger, they learned and experienced democracy while illustrating the efficacy of community participation in education. Hale rightly places them at the forefront of the struggle for freedom. His book reminds us of those who saved
- [Book Excerpt! <i>Incomparable Empires: Modernism and the Translation of Spanish and American Literature,</i> by Gayle Rogers](https://cupblog.org/2019/02/21/book-excerpt-incomparable-empires-modernism-and-the-translation-of-spanish-and-american-literature-by-gayle-rogers/) - “By de-coupling their translational practices from the national literary traditions and imperial teleologies they were supposed to express and reflect, the writers analyzed in Incomparable Empires carved out creative spaces that radically reconfigured U.S. and Spanish literatures. Rogers's brilliantly contextualized recovery of their alternative stratagems of translation promises to foster a grand scale re-thinking of
- [Book Excerpt! <i>Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal</i> (introduction and chapter 2)](https://cupblog.org/2019/03/21/book-excerpt-banking-on-freedom-black-women-in-u-s-finance-before-the-new-deal-introduction-and-chapter-2/) - “Shennette Garrett-Scott’s compelling and highly original account demonstrates that, for black people, banks were more than financial institutions. In the hands of black women, capital accumulation, credit, and insurance became community building practices, mutual aid, strategies for collective survival, and sources of contestation. Banking on Freedom offers a new perspective on the entire community and the nation.”
- [Standing Up Against Injustice: Rethinking Resistance Efforts and Social Change](https://cupblog.org/2020/06/15/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 the hope that they help inform and encourage today’s movements. These books explore the thinking
- [Recommended Reading: UC Press Books on Black Lives, Race, and Police Reform in the U.S.A. <br><h3>A University of California Press Takeover</h3></br>](https://cupblog.org/2020/06/22/recommended-reading-uc-press-books-on-black-lives-race-and-police-reform-in-the-u-s-a-a-university-of-california-press-takeover/) - In the wake of current events, we encourage our community to read beyond the important scholarship we publish and consider the urgent and timely books published by our friends and colleagues. Today’s spotlight is on the University of California Press, who are taking over our blog and social media for the day. Be sure to follow
- [The Removal of Confederate Monuments in Public Locations<br><h3>By Fred Evans</h3></br>](https://cupblog.org/2020/06/24/the-removal-of-confederate-monuments-in-public-locationsby-fred-evans/) - “This book is a critically needed study in political aesthetics addressing complex connections between democracy, citizenship, and public art. Its systematic analysis and criticism of selected artistic projects, and ideas from such thinkers on democracy as Badiou, Derrida, Deutsche, Fraser, Lefort, Rancière, and Rawls, make this book an excellent companion to our intelligent thinking regarding
- [Book Excerpt! <i>Le Boogie Woogie: Inside an After-Hours Club</i>, by Terry Williams (introduction)](https://cupblog.org/2020/08/19/book-excerpt-le-boogie-woogie-inside-an-after-hours-club-by-terry-williams-introduction/) - “Terry Williams has already established himself as a master of gaining access to hard-to-reach, hidden, and vulnerable populations. He has done so again here, giving an in-depth look at a place with which most people will be totally unfamiliar in a vivid and compelling style.” ~Richard E. Ocejo, author of Masters of Craft: Old Jobs
- [Book Excerpt! <i> Educating Harlem: A Century of Schooling and Resistance in a Black Community</i>, edited by Ansley T. Erickson and Ernest Morrell](https://cupblog.org/2020/08/21/book-excerpt-educating-harlem-a-century-of-schooling-and-resistance-in-a-black-community-edited-by-ansley-t-erickson-and-ernest-morrell/) -  “An outstanding collection of cutting-edge essays, Educating Harlem rewrites the narrative of twentieth-century urban education. Eschewing a single thesis or grand narrative, this groundbreaking volume shows the creativity, debate, fierce love, and impassioned determination of a community to make education a human right amid the ever-changing but always inequitable landscape of New York City.”
- [Join Us In Celebrating Black History Month 2020](https://cupblog.org/2020/02/01/join-us-in-celebrating-black-history-month-2020/) - It’s the first day of Black History Month, and we're celebrating by featuring interviews and guest posts from scholars and authors about the history of U.S. property restrictions and finance, fair housing, affirmative action, the Black Lives Matters movement and Hollywood’s race politics. Beginning Monday, February 3, we’ll be offering our readers the chance to
- [Dismantling  Hollywood's Whiteness Problem<br><h3>By Eithne Quinn</br></h3>](https://cupblog.org/2020/02/06/dismantling-hollywoods-whiteness-problemby-eithne-quinn/) - “Well-written, meticulously researched, critical, and smart, A Piece of the Action may be the most important book on black American cinema in the last quarter century. Enjoyable and highly informative, this book will quickly emerge as a classic and must-read among those interested in film history, black cinema, race and popular culture, and the sociology of culture.”
- [Erasing History: A Conspiracy Against Equality<br><h3>By Alex George and S. Anand</h3></br>](https://cupblog.org/2020/02/19/erasing-history-a-conspiracy-against-equalityby-alex-george-and-s-anand/) - “Beef, Brahmins, and Broken Men is that rare achievement, a work that combines meticulous historical scholarship. . . with a passionate, persuasive call to action.” ~Wendy Doniger, author of The Hindus: An Alternative History B. R. Ambedkar spent his life battling Untouchability and instigating the end of the caste system. In writing The Untouchables: Who Were They and Why
- [Book Excerpts! <i>A Haven and a Hell, Banking on Freedom</i>and <i>Threatening Property</i>](https://cupblog.org/2020/02/07/book-excerpts-a-haven-and-a-hell-banking-on-freedomand-threatening-property/) - This week, we have explored Black life in the context of property and finance through the scholarship of Lance Freeman, Shennette Garrett-Scott, and Elizabeth A. Herbin-Triant. Today, we invite your to grab a warm drink and settle into a cozy seat to read excerpts from each of their works. • • • • • •
- [Book Excerpt! <i>A Piece of the Action</i>, By Eithne Quinn](https://cupblog.org/2020/02/10/book-excerpt-a-piece-of-the-action-by-eithne-quinn/) - “Well-written, meticulously researched, critical, and smart, A Piece of the Action may be the most important book on black American cinema in the last quarter century. Enjoyable and highly informative, this book will quickly emerge as a classic and must-read among those interested in film history, black cinema, race and popular culture, and the sociology
- [Book Excerpt! <i>To Fulfill These Rights</i>, by Amaka Okechukwu](https://cupblog.org/2020/02/13/book-excerpt-to-fulfill-these-rights-by-amaka-okechukwu/) - “I learned something new and interesting on nearly every page. This is an excellent empirical engagement with affirmative action. Amaka Okechukwu’s updated racial formation theory is smart, compelling, and engaging.” ~Ellen Berrey, author of The Enigma of Diversity: The Language of Race and the Limits of Racial Justice In the 1960s and 1970s, widespread campus
- [Book Excerpt! <i>The Dream Revisited</i>, Edited by Ingrid Gould Ellen and Justin Peter Steil](https://cupblog.org/2020/02/27/book-excerpt-the-dream-revisited-edited-by-ingrid-gould-ellen-and-justin-peter-steil/) - “[The Dream Revisited] is probably the most intelligent and thoughtful read on segregation in recent years. Despite highlighting so many debates and differences, I consider it a hopeful and useful policy tool.” ~Anne B. Shlay, Georgia State University, Journal of Urban Affairs A half century after the Fair Housing Act, despite ongoing transformations of the
- [The Struggle for Equal Access to Neighborhood Resources and Opportunities Shifts to the State and Local Level<br><h3>By Ingrid Gould Ellen and Justin Peter Steil</h3></br>](https://cupblog.org/2020/02/26/the-struggle-for-equal-access-to-neighborhood-resources-and-opportunities-shifts-to-the-state-and-local-levelby-ingrid-gould-ellen-and-justin-peter-steil/) - “[The Dream Revisited] is probably the most intelligent and thoughtful read on segregation in recent years. Despite highlighting so many debates and differences, I consider it a hopeful and useful policy tool.” ~Anne B. Shlay, Georgia State University, Journal of Urban Affairs The struggle for equal and fair housing in the United States is a
- [An Interview with James Davis, Author of "Eric Walrond"](https://cupblog.org/2015/03/10/an-interview-with-james-davis-author-of-eric-walrond/) - Read part 1 of our interview with James Davis, author of "Eric Walrond: A Life in the Harlem Renaissance and the Transatlantic Caribbean"
- [Who Was Hubert Harrison?: A Post by Jeffrey B. Perry](https://cupblog.org/2008/11/11/who-was-hubert-harrison-a-post-by-jeffrey-b-perry/) - The following post is by Jeffrey B. Perry, author of the just-published Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918: Hubert Harrison (1883-1927) is one of the truly important figures of early twentieth-century America. A brilliant writer, orator, educator, critic, and political activist, he was described by the historian Joel A. Rogers, in World’s Great
- [Writing Hubert Harrison -- A Post by Jeffrey Perry](https://cupblog.org/2008/11/20/writing-hubert-harrison-a-post-by-jeffrey-perry/) - The following post is by Jeffrey B. Perry, author of Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918. You can also read his previous post "Who Was Hubert Harrison?". Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918 is the first volume of my two-volume biography of a brilliant and influential early-twentieth-century Black intellectual and activist
- [135th Anniversary of the Birth of Hubert Harrison: “Father of Harlem Radicalism”](https://cupblog.org/2018/04/27/135th-anniversary-of-the-birth-of-hubert-harrison-father-of-harlem-radicalism/) - Today, marks the 135th anniversary of the birth of Hubert Harrison:“Father of Harlem Radicalism” and founder of the first organization and first newspaper of the militant “New Negro Movement.” In observance of this momentous occasion, we present you with this guest post by Jeffrey B. Perry, author of Hubert Harrison The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918 •
- [Columbia University Press Welcomes the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy](https://cupblog.org/2020/02/03/columbia-university-press-welcomes-the-lincoln-institute-of-land-policy/) - Columbia University Press is proud to welcome the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy as one of our distributed presses. Complementing our strengths in critical political engagement and sustainability in public policy, this remarkable publisher is at the forefront of integrating theory and practice to shape global conversations. • • • • • • A
- [Book Excerpt! <i>Fear of Breakdown: Politics and Psychoanalysis</i>, By Noëlle McAfee](https://cupblog.org/2020/01/10/book-excerpt-fear-of-breakdown-politics-and-psychoanalysis-by-noelle-mcafee/) - “In exploring the fear of breakdown that underlies human existence, Noëlle McAfee creates a genuine intellectual breakthrough—her book is a stunningly original exploration of the political significance of mourning. This is one of the most thrilling books I have read in years.” ~Mari Ruti, author of Penis Envy and Other Bad Feelings: The Emotional Costs of
- [Talking Alzheimer’s Research with Nonexperts <br><h3>By Han Yu</h3></br>](https://cupblog.org/2021/01/13/talking-alzheimers-research-with-nonexperts-by-han-yu/) - Accomplished popular science. Yu delivers an expert account of the groundbreaking research that revealed the genetics and biochemistry of [Alzheimer’s] disease. —Kirkus In today’s featured SFN post, Han Yu introduces us to her forthcoming book, Mind Thief: The Story of Alzheimer's, which provides a comprehensive and engaging history of Alzheimer’s that demystifies efforts to understand
- [Our Sense of Touch in the Social-Distancing Era <br><h3>By Sushma Subramanian</h3></br>](https://cupblog.org/2021/01/11/our-sense-of-touch-in-the-social-distancing-era-by-sushma-subramanian/) - “In this addictively readable book, Sushma Subramanian explores our vital human sense of touch in terms of history, science, culture, family and most of all humanity. It's a story full of insight and surprise, told by a science writer with a poet's sense of language. Don't miss it.” —Deborah Blum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The
- [Where Is Neuroscience Heading? <br><h3>By Ashley Juavinett</h3></br>](https://cupblog.org/2021/01/12/where-is-neuroscience-heading-by-ashley-juavinett/) - “You might not know it yet, but you do want to be a neuroscientist, and this compelling book will show you why and how. A wonderful, entertaining, yet eminently practical guide to joining the quest to solve our deepest, richest scientific challenge—understanding the brain.” —Mark D. Humphries, University of Nottingham In today’s featured SFN
- [Browse Our SfN Virtual Book Exhibit with Miranda Martin](https://cupblog.org/2021/01/11/browse-our-sfn-virtual-book-exhibit-with-miranda-martin/) - Welcome to the Columbia University Press virtual booth at the first ever Society for Neuroscience Global Connectome! I’m Miranda Martin, the press’s science editor. We may have met at last year’s SfN annual meeting, which was my first. If not, I hope to have the opportunity to meet you in person in the future. This
- [Matthew Hart on Border Politics During the Pandemic Age](https://cupblog.org/2020/10/19/matthew-hart-on-border-politics-during-the-pandemic-age/) - “A fascinating book about why the idea of being extraterritorial has come to preoccupy writers and artists and a rejoinder to celebrations of the cosmopolitan intellect or the ostensible age of postnational globalization. Hart highlights the aesthetic appeal and confusion arising from extraterritoriality’s mixture of loosening and constraint, of being outside but also within, in
- [Video: Eric Hayot in Conversation with Paul Saint-Amour about <i>Humanist Reason</i>](https://cupblog.org/2021/01/10/video-eric-hayot-in-conversation-with-paul-saint-amour-about-humanist-reason/) -  “[Humanist Reason] is not another anxious apology or resentful jeremiad about the decline of the humanities. This is a confident and liberating gift that shows us how and why to practice humanist reason now.” —Chad Wellmon, coauthor of Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age In today’s MLA-featured video, Eric Hayot discusses his
- [Video: Four Reasons to Reread <i>A Visit from the Goon Squad</i>](https://cupblog.org/2021/01/08/video-four-reasons-to-reread-a-visit-from-the-goon-squad/) -  “A brilliant investigation … Ivan Kreilkamp is a music critic as well as a literary scholar, versed in both Middlemarch and Minor Threat, so he brings revelatory insight into Egan’s punk-inspired story of time lost and time regained.” —Rob Sheffield, author of Dreaming the Beatles: The Love Story of One Band and the Whole
- [Peter Coviello’s Playlist for <i>Vineland Reread</i>](https://cupblog.org/2021/01/09/peter-coviellos-playlist-for-vineland-reread/) - “Here is a mash note, a fan’s riff, a sizzling study of Pynchon’s most misapprehended book. . . . ”—Sam Lipsyte, author of HarkToday’s MLA featured post is a playlist from Peter Coviello to accompany his new book Vineland Reread, a new addition to the Rereadings series. As Coviello explains below, the music ranges from eighties California punk
- [Video: Larry Cunningham on <i>Margin of Trust: The Berkshire Model</i>](https://cupblog.org/2020/08/11/larry-cunningham-on-margin-of-trust-the-berkshire-model/) - Larry Cunningham on NTD News “To truly understand Warren Buffett’s conglomerate, one needs to look beyond the extraordinary numbers and absorb the unique culture of Berkshire Hathaway. Every Berkshire shareholder—or investor of any other company, for that matter—should read Margin of Trust to better understand what makes a sustainable corporate culture and, therefore, superior investment that’s built
- [Video: Penelope Deutscher and Jana Sawicki in Conversation with Lynne Huffer on <i>Foucault's Strange Eros</i>](https://cupblog.org/2020/10/09/penelope-deutscher-and-jana-sawicki-in-conversation-with-lynne-huffer-on-foucaults-strange-eros/) -  “In a provocative take on eros as a verb—as erosion of the thinking subject bound by grids of intelligibility that define her identity—Huffer offers the splendid final installment of her Foucault trilogy. Forcefully written with a capacious imagination, this book exemplifies the enviable rewards of a sustained in-depth engagement with Foucault as an ethopoietic thinker.”
- [Webinar: #RaiseUP How University Presses Work for Overlooked Authors & Ideas](https://cupblog.org/2020/10/09/raiseup-how-university-presses-work-for-overlooked-authors-ideas/) -  In a time when information moves faster than ever, it's critical that books about the most important events of the day are nurtured, championed, and made widely available. In this webinar, staff and authors from the university press community discuss how they strive to elevate disciplines, subjects, and authors that bring new perspectives, ideas,
- [Video: Todd McGowan in Conversation with Richard Boothby on <i>Emancipation After Hegel</i>](https://cupblog.org/2020/10/10/todd-mcgowan-in-conversation-with-richard-boothby-on-emancipation-after-hegel/) -  “Todd McGowan's Emancipation After Hegel could not come at a more appropriate time: the time when we truly need to carefully (re)think and reestablish the idea of emancipation. The book does this in a brilliant and compelling way, taking contradiction—as understood by Hegel—as the key to the understanding of emancipation and its relationship to freedom.” ~Alenka
- [Webinar: Lionel Barber in Conversation with Gilles Kepel](https://cupblog.org/2020/10/12/webinar-lionel-barber-in-conversation-with-gilles-kepel/) -  “Gilles Kepel has long been France’s most sophisticated scholar of radical Islam, and Away from Chaos is his personal and political summa—a remarkable synthesis of decades of passionate engagement with the Middle East.” ~Robert F. Worth, The New York Times Magazine The Middle East is one of the world’s most volatile regions. In recent years, it
- [Video: Eric Bulson Introduces <i>Ulysses by Numbers</i>](https://cupblog.org/2020/10/24/eric-bulson-introduces-ulysses-by-numbers/) -  “Numbers in literature often have magical or secret meanings, but this remarkable book also shows us other, quite startling modes of literary counting, giving us the pleasure we find only in the best critical readings: we are surprised and we wonder what to do with our surprise.” ~Michael Wood, author ofLiterature and the Taste
- [Video: Matthew Hart Introduces <i>Extraterritorial</i>](https://cupblog.org/2020/10/25/matthew-hart-introduces-extraterritorial/) -  “A fascinating book about why the idea of being extraterritorial has come to preoccupy writers and artists and a rejoinder to celebrations of the cosmopolitan intellect or the ostensible age of postnational globalization. Hart highlights the aesthetic appeal and confusion arising from extraterritoriality’s mixture of loosening and constraint, of being outside but also within,
- [Video: Michael Alexander on the Origins of <i>Making Peace with the Universe</i>](https://cupblog.org/2020/12/05/michael-alexander-on-the-origins-of-making-peace-with-the-universe/) -  “What happens when worlds fall apart? It’s a question that so many of us have asked ourselves in times of crisis. The marvel of Michael Scott Alexander’s book is that he has transformed his own search into a discovery of the wisdom of the ages. Erudite and deeply personal, this book captures the pain
- [Video: Mark C. Taylor Reads from His New Book, <i>Intervolution: Smart Bodies Smart Things</i>](https://cupblog.org/2020/12/09/mark-c-taylor-reads-from-his-new-book-intervolution-smart-bodies-smart-things/) -  “Intervolution is at once informative and thought-provoking—a fascinating exploration of the ever-narrowing gap between men and machines. Mark C. Taylor uses his own experience of chronic illness to probe some of the central questions of our time.” ~Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, winner of the Pulitzer Prize Science fiction
- [Video: Prices and Decentralization Without Convexity](https://cupblog.org/2021/01/03/video-prices-and-decentralization-without-convexity/) - “This groundbreaking book of practical economic theory by Milgrom, the world’s most accomplished designer of complex auctions, describes the design of the most complex auction yet: the FCC incentive auction for electromagnetic spectrum. The book also illuminates why the magic of the market doesn’t happen by magic, but sometimes needs to be designed. Every economist,
- [Video: Mark Blyth on Global Trumpism and the Future of the Global Economy](https://cupblog.org/2021/01/05/video-mark-blyth-on-global-trumpism-and-the-future-of-the-global-economy/) - “With considerable sophistication and a good dose of humor, this book dissects the popular anger that has made our economics unsustainable and our politics dysfunctional. Lonergan and Blyth rightly call for a reset of our current model of capitalism. To their great credit, they also provide creative—and practical—ideas for moving forward.” —Dani Rodrik, Harvard University
- [Video: The Tulika Story: An Interview with Indira Chandrasekhar](https://cupblog.org/2020/08/12/the-tulika-story-an-interview-with-indira-chandrasekhar/) -  This month, we are celebrating the 25th anniversary of Tulika Books. Watch this interview of Indira Chandrasekhar, the founder, publisher and managing editor of Tulika Books with Frederick F.N. Noronha, which took place in 2010. Chandrasekhar of Tulika Books in New Delhi tells of her experiences with alternative publishing and more. Tulika Books is one of the
- [Q&A: Sunny Xiang on <i>Tonal Intelligence</i>](https://cupblog.org/2021/01/07/qa-sunny-xiang-on-tonal-intelligence/) - “Tonal Intelligence boldly rethinks race and self-representation by theorizing tone as a way to read racial meaning. Sunny Xiang’s ambitious remit and strikingly original conceptualizations offer a powerful reconfiguration of aesthetics, affect, and the geopolitical.” —Jini Kim Watson, author of The New Asian City: Three-Dimensional Fictions of Space and Urban Form Today’s featured MLA title
- [Browse Our MLA Virtual Book Exhibit with Philip Leventhal](https://cupblog.org/2021/01/07/browse-our-mla-virtual-book-exhibit-with-philip-leventhal/) - Welcome to the Columbia University Press virtual exhibit for the MLA conference. I am Philip Leventhal, editor for literary studies, and while it is disappointing not to have the opportunity to see everyone in person at MLA this year, I am excited to share some of our forthcoming and recently published books. Please visit this
- [Announcing Our 2021 Literary Studies Catalog](https://cupblog.org/2021/01/07/announcing-our-2021-literary-studies-catalog/) - Letter from the Editors: We are pleased to present the 2021 Columbia University Press literary studies catalog. The past year was a challenging one on many fronts and we hope the books in this catalog reflect the various ways in which literary studies and literature provide new ways of thinking and understanding our world. We
- [Q&A: Thomas Borstelmann on the American Struggle to Understanding Foreigners](https://cupblog.org/2020/06/21/qa-thomas-borstelmann-on-the-american-struggle-to-understanding-foreigners/) - “This is one of those books that sticks with you. Borstelmann asks a big question—about U.S. attitudes toward foreigners—and has an important argument to make. What is more, Just Like Us sparkles with telling details and unexpected connections. It is, plainly put, masterful.” ~Daniel Immerwahr, author of How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater
- [Browse Our AHA Virtual Book Exhibit with Caelyn Cobb](https://cupblog.org/2021/01/07/browse-our-aha-virtual-book-exhibit-with-caelyn-cobb/) - Hello and welcome to the Columbia University Press American Historical Association virtual exhibit, coming live—once again—from our socially distanced homes to yours. I’m Caelyn Cobb, the editor for global history, and I’m so disappointed not to see any of your faces.January is a time of new beginnings, and ordinarily, this conference is a perfect opportunity
- [Q&A: Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz on <i>Asian Place, Filipino Nation</i>](https://cupblog.org/2021/01/08/qa-nicole-cuunjieng-aboitiz-on-asian-place-filipino-nation/) - “In restoring the intellectual history of the Philippine Revolution, at long last, to its pan-Asian context, Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz offers a startling new perspective not only on the history of the Philippines in that era but on the evolution of anticolonial modernity in Asia writ large.” —Erez Manela, Harvard University Today’s AHA virtual book exhibit
- [Announcing Our 2021 History Catalog](https://cupblog.org/2021/01/06/announcing-our-2021-history-catalog/) - Letter from the Editors: We are pleased to present the 2021 history catalog from Columbia University Press. We have a slate of new books that unearth the origins of our global crises in capitalism, the international order, and conflicts over race and gender. In global history, a slate of 2021 releases approach the history of
- [Announcing Our 2021 Economics Catalog](https://cupblog.org/2021/01/01/announcing-our-2021-economics-catalog/) - Letter from the editor: 2020 has undoubtedly been a year of significance for the field of economics. The pandemic has presented unique challenges to the implementation of effective policies, and the field has come under close scrutiny as opinions vary on the best way to come out stronger from this once-in-a-centuryevent. With this context in
- [The Environment as an Ethical Idea <br><h3>By Anna M. Gade</h3></br>](https://cupblog.org/2020/12/01/the-environment-as-an-ethical-idea-by-anna-m-gade/) - “Anna M. Gade places her arguments within a rich exploration of historical and modern theoretical approaches to the environment and environmentalism. This book is theoretically sophisticated, lively, and interesting.” ~Marion Katz, author of Women in the Mosque: A History of Legal Thought and Social Practice How might understandings of environmentalism and the environmental humanities shift by
- [Michael Scott Alexander on <i>Making Peace with the Universe</i>](https://cupblog.org/2020/12/04/michael-scott-alexander-on-making-peace-with-the-universe/) - “A brilliant exploration of religious and spiritual experiences as they relate to the ability to heal the mind and promote psychological health. A missing piece of the puzzle of how religion intersects with psychological wellbeing.” ~Andrew Newberg, author of Neurotheology: How Science Can Enlighten Us About Spirituality The world’s great religious and philosophical traditions often
- [Three Questions That Make One <br><h3>By Bashir Bashir and Leila Farsakh</h3></br>](https://cupblog.org/2020/12/07/three-questions-that-make-one-by-bashir-bashir-and-leila-farsakh/) - “Drawing on philosophy, politics, poetry, psychoanalysis, and history, and extending from North Africa and the Mediterranean to Europe and North America, this powerful book poses the Arab and Jewish questions as inextricable, intimate, and hybrid forces that shape our desires and our unimagined futures.” ~Sherene Seikaly, author of Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in
- [Q&A: Ruth DeFries in Conversation with Bill McKibben on <i>What Would Nature Do?</i>](https://cupblog.org/2020/12/08/qa-ruth-defries-in-conversation-with-bill-mckibben-on-what-would-nature-do/) - “DeFries is an excellent writer, using elegant storytelling to offer a hopeful delineation of pathways to a sustainable future. She builds on evolutionary history, the theory of complex adaptive systems, and examples of the emergence of cooperation in biological systems, including human societies—distilling a complex topic for a broad audience.” ~Simon A. Levin, James S.
- [Q&A: John Mutter on <i>Climate Change Science</i>](https://cupblog.org/2020/12/09/qa-john-mutter-on-climate-change-science/) - “It is rare to find a book that succinctly explains the scientific basis for one of the greatest challenges humanity has ever faced. For anyone looking to learn the foundations of climate science, Mutter's primer is an excellent jump start. He covers an expansive number of topics gracefully, providing readers with the key scientific concepts
- [Browse our AEA Virtual Book Exhibit with Christian Pizarro Winting](https://cupblog.org/2021/01/03/browse-our-aea-virtual-book-exhibit-with-christian-pizarro-winting/) - Welcome to the Columbia University Press virtual exhibit booth for the 2021 American Economic Association annual meeting. I am Christian Pizarro Winting, the editor for CUP’s books in economics. This last year has been an undoubtedly tough one for all, but the field of economics has taken an even more prominent place in the public
- [New From Our Distributed Presses! <i>Geopolitical Imagination, Urban Resilience in a Global Context</i> and More!](https://cupblog.org/2020/12/30/new-from-our-distributed-presses-geopolitical-imagination-urban-resilience-in-a-global-context-and-more/) - Our weekly list of new books from our distributed presses is now available! ibidem Press Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society Geopolitical ImaginationIdeology and Utopia in Post-Soviet RussiaMikhail SuslovIn this timely book, Mikhail Suslov discusses contemporary Russian geopolitical culture and argues that a better knowledge of geopolitical concepts and fantasies is instrumental for understanding Russia’s
- [New Book Tuesday! <i>Out of the Dark Night, Aimlessness,</i> and More!](https://cupblog.org/2020/12/22/new-book-tuesday-out-of-the-dark-night-aimlessness-and-more/) - Our weekly list of new books is now available! Out of the Dark NightEssays on DecolonizationAchille MbembeOut of the Dark Night reconstructs critical theory’s historical and philosophical framework for understanding colonial and postcolonial events and expands our sense of the futures made possible by decolonization. No Limits AimlessnessTom LutzAimlessness collects ideas and stories from around the world
- [New From Our Distributed Presses! <i>To Be A Water Protector, Thinking the Problematic,</i> and More!](https://cupblog.org/2020/12/16/new-from-our-distributed-presses-to-be-a-water-protector-thinking-the-problematic-and-more/) - Our weekly list of new books is now available! Association for Asian Studies Asia Shorts Teaching About Asia in a Time of PandemicEdited by David KenleyTeaching About Asia in a Time of Pandemic presents many lessons learned by educators during the COVID-19 outbreak. The volume consists of two sections. Section one includes chapters discussing how to
- [New Book Tuesday! <i>Underwater, Made in Hong Kong,</i> and More!](https://cupblog.org/2020/12/15/new-book-tuesday-underwater-made-in-hong-kong-and-more/) - Our weekly list of new books is now available! Society and the Environment UnderwaterLoss, Flood Insurance, and the Moral Economy of Climate Change in the United StatesRebecca ElliottIn Underwater, Rebecca Elliott explores how families, communities, and governments confront problems of loss as the climate changes. She offers the first in-depth account of the politics and social
- [New from transcript publishing! <i>Truth and Fiction, Dramatic Disgust</i> and More!](https://cupblog.org/2020/12/11/new-from-transcript-publishing-truth-and-fiction-dramatic-disgust-and-more/) - Our weekly list of new books is now available! transcript publishing From the Culture & Theory series Truth and FictionConspiracy Theories in Eastern European Culture and LiteratureEdited by Peter Deutschmann, Jens Herlth, and Alois WoldanMany influential conspiracy theories originated in Eastern Europe. This volume analyzes the history behind this widespread phenomenon as well as its
- [Five Ideas for a Plastic-Free Holiday Season <br><h3>Rebecca Prince-Ruiz and Joanna Atherfold Finn</h3></br>](https://cupblog.org/2020/12/10/five-ideas-for-a-plastic-free-holiday-season-rebecca-prince-ruiz-and-joanna-atherfold-finn/) - “Plastic Free July inspires me to step up my commitment to reducing single-use plastic in my daily life and on tour.” ~Jack Johnson, musician and Plastic Free Foundation ambassador We’re wrapping up our American Geophysical Union virtual exhibit with a guest post by Rebecca Prince-Ruiz and Joanna Atherfold Finn, coauthors of the new book Plastic
- [New From the Association for Asian Studies <i>The Pandemic</i>](https://cupblog.org/2020/12/09/new-from-the-association-for-asian-studies-the-pandemic/) - Our weekly list of new books is now available! Association for Asian Studies The PandemicPerspectives on AsiaEdited by Vinayak ChaturvediThis collection of essays provides analyses of the COVID-19 pandemic in Asia. It covers the first phase of the pandemic that will help future scholars to contextualize the history of the present. It includes interpretations by
- [Announcing the Columbia University Press Spring 2021 Catalog](https://cupblog.org/2020/12/08/announcing-the-columbia-university-press-spring-2021-catalog/) - Dear Readers, It has been a year of turmoil and uncertainty, as well as a year of inspiring movements for social justice. As we reflect on the ways recent events have challenged us, we are proud to announce this season’s catalog, featuring groundbreaking books that speak powerfully to today’s urgent conversations. We are honored to
- [New Book Tuesday! <i>Vineland Reread, Research Exposed,</i> and More!](https://cupblog.org/2020/12/08/new-book-tuesday-vineland-reread-research-exposed-and-more/) - Our weekly list of new books is now available! From the Rereadings series Vineland RereadPeter CovielloVineland is hardly anyone’s favorite Thomas Pynchon novel. However, for Peter Coviello, the oft-overlooked book opens up new ways of thinking about Pynchon’s writing and about how we read and how we live in the rough currents of history. From the
- [Take a Tour of Our AGU Virtual Exhibit Booth with Miranda Martin](https://cupblog.org/2020/12/07/take-a-tour-of-our-agu-virtual-exhibit-booth-with-miranda-martin/) - The Columbia University Press virtual booth for the American Geophysical Union’s 2020 Fall Meeting is now open! I’m Miranda Martin, the press’s science editor. We may have met at previous events; if not, I hope to have the opportunity to meet you in person in the future.We continue to publish books across the sciences, and
- [New From Fernwood Publishing! <i>Indigenous Women’s Theatre in Canada</i>](https://cupblog.org/2020/12/02/new-from-fernwood-publishing-indigenous-womens-theatre-in-canada/) - Our weekly list of new books is now available! Fernwood Publishing Indigenous Women’s Theatre in CanadaA Mechanism of DecolonizationSarah MacKenzieClosely analyzing dramatic texts by Monique Mojica, Marie Clements, and Yvette Nolan, Sarah MacKenzie explores representations of gendered colonialist violence in order to determine the varying ways in which these representations are employed subversively and informatively
- [New Book Tuesday! <i>The Terroir of Whiskey, Pleasure in Profit</i> and More!](https://cupblog.org/2020/12/01/new-book-tuesday-the-terroir-of-whiskey-pleasure-in-profit-and-more/) - Our weekly list of new books is now available! From the Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History series The Terroir of WhiskeyA Distiller’s Journey Into the Flavor of PlaceRob ArnoldIn this book, the master distiller Rob Arnold reveals how innovative whiskey producers are recapturing a sense of place to create distinctive,
- [Take a Tour of Our AAR Virtual Exhibit with Wendy Lochner](https://cupblog.org/2020/11/29/take-a-tour-of-our-aar-virtual-exhibit-with-wendy-lochner/) - Hi! I’m Wendy Lochner, the religion editor at Columbia University Press. Since the coronavirus pandemic has canceled fall conferences—SBL/AAR included—we are mounting virtual book exhibits on our blog to accompany our virtual booth. I will miss seeing so many friends in person but will see some of you on Zoom—I hope we all last though
- [New Book Tuesday! <i>Notre-Dame of Amiens, The Arab and Jewish Questions,</i> and <i>Hubert Harrison</i>](https://cupblog.org/2020/11/24/new-book-tuesday-notre-dame-of-amiens-the-arab-and-jewish-questions-and-hubert-harrison/) - Our weekly list of new books is now available! Notre-Dame of AmiensLife of the Gothic CathedralStephen MurrayA beautifully illustrated account of a grand, historically and religiously important building from a variety of perspectives and in a variety of time periods, this book offers readers a memorable tour of Notre-Dame of Amiens that celebrates the cathedral’s
- [New Book Tuesday! <i>Bookishness, Redlining Culture,</i> and More!](https://cupblog.org/2020/11/17/new-book-tuesday-bookishness-redlining-culture-and-more/) - Our weekly list of new books is now available! From the Literature Now series BookishnessLoving Books in a Digital AgeJessica PressmanIn Bookishness, Jessica Pressman examines the new status of the book as object and symbol. She explores the rise of “bookishness” as an identity and an aesthetic strategy that proliferates from store-window décor to experimental writing.
- [In Celebration of Richard W. Bulliet's Eightieth Birthday<br><h3>By Jennifer Crewe</h3></br>](https://cupblog.org/2020/11/19/in-celebration-of-richard-w-bulliets-eightieth-birthdayby-jennifer-crewe/) - I write on the happy occasion of the eightieth birthday of one of the Press’s most prolific authors and one of our most important advisers and supporters. Richard W. Bulliet, Professor Emeritus of Middle East History at Columbia, was on the Press’s Board of Trustees for many years and served (for more years than anyone else I
- [New From Agenda Publishing! <i>Cultural Economics</i> and <i>Austerity</i>](https://cupblog.org/2020/11/18/new-from-agenda-publishing-cultural-economics-and-austerity/) - Our weekly list of new books is now available! Agenda Publishing From The Economy: Key Ideas series Cultural EconomicsChristiane HellmanzikCultural Economics investigates and analyses the contribution to and role of the creative industries and their products and services in the overall economy. From the performance arts to television, from the internet to paintings and publishing, the
- [Q&A: Conor Broughan on RaisingUP Academic Publishing](https://cupblog.org/2020/11/11/qa-conor-broughan-on-raisingup-academic-publishing/) - It’s University Press Week 2020, and as part of the campaign, Book Culture interviewed CUP’s own Northeast Sales Representative Conor Broughan about his experience as a sales rep in academic publishing. Read the Q&A below to learn about his journey in AUP publishing and more! • • • • • • Book Culture: How did you
- [New From Our Distributed Presses! <i>Waiting Town, Warrior Life</i> and More!](https://cupblog.org/2020/11/11/new-from-our-distributed-presses-waiting-town-warrior-life-and-more/) - Our weekly list of new books is now available! Association for Asian Studies From the Asia Shorts series Waiting TownLife in Transit and Mumbai’s Other World-Class HistoriesLisa BjörkmanDrawing on a decade of ethnographic research in the Indian city of Mumbai, Waiting Town is an unconventional little book – experimental in form – about how we come to
- [6 Things to Consider Before Applying to PhD Programs](https://cupblog.org/2020/11/12/6-things-to-consider-before-applying-to-phd-programs/) - "A wealth of practical wisdom and cordial wit fills this book. Every lab will want to have a bin-full ready for all, from undergraduates, to graduate students, postdocs, techs, and, yes, faculty. Juavinett has a faultless and streamlined take on the entire range of the neurosciences, as well as a winning insight into the convoluted
- [Q&A: Joanne Raymond on Her Career in Academic Publishing](https://cupblog.org/2020/11/09/qa-joanne-raymond-on-her-career-in-academic-publishing/) - It's University Press Week 2020, and today's theme is New Voices. As part of the campaign, Book Culture interviewed CUP’s own assistant publicist Joanne Raymond about her career growth in academic publishing. Read the Q&A below to learn about her journey in AUP publishing and more! • • • • • • Book Culture: How
- [New From Our Distributed Presses! <i>Work-based Learning as a Pathway to Competence-based Education, Shintō in the History and Culture of Japan</i> and <i>Land-Water-Sky / Ndè-Tı-Yat’a</i>](https://cupblog.org/2020/11/04/new-from-our-distributed-presses-work-based-learning-as-a-pathway-to-competence-based-education-shinto-in-the-history-and-culture-of-japan-and-land-water-sky-nde-ti-yata/) - Our weekly list of new books is now available! Association for Asian Studies From the Key Issues in Asian Studies series Shintō in the History and Culture of JapanRonald S. GreenThis book is a concise overview of Shintō through a survey of its key concepts, related archeological finds, central mythology, significant cultural sites, political dimensions, and
- [New Book Tuesday! <i>The Story of Evolution in 25 Discoveries</i> and <i>Epistenology</i>](https://cupblog.org/2020/11/10/new-book-tuesday-the-story-of-evolution-in-25-discoveries-and-epistenology/) - Our weekly list of new books is now available! The Story of Evolution in 25 DiscoveriesThe Evidence and the People Who Found ItDonald R. ProtheroIn The Story of Evolution in 25 Discoveries, Donald R. Prothero explores the most fascinating breakthroughs in piecing together the evidence for evolution. In twenty-five vignettes, he recounts the dramatic stories of
- [Announcing Our 2020 Religion Catalog](https://cupblog.org/2020/11/09/announcing-our-2020-religion-catalog/) - Letter from the editor: With both sadness to miss seeing so many friends in person and great pleasure to share so many exciting new books, I present the Columbia University Press religion catalog for 2020. These titles, which span subjects from Buddhism to American religion, philosophy of religion, Islam, religion and literature, and more, reflect
- [New Book Tuesday! <i>What Would Nature Do?, Aging Behind Prison Walls, Critique on the Couch</i> and More!](https://cupblog.org/2020/11/03/new-book-tuesday-what-would-nature-do-aging-behind-prison-walls-critique-on-the-couch-and-more/) - Our weekly list of new books is now available! What Would Nature Do?A Guide for Our Uncertain TimesRuth DeFriesRuth DeFries argues that a surprising set of time-tested strategies from the natural world can help humanity weather these crises. Through trial and error over the eons, life has evolved astonishing and counterintuitive tricks in order to
- [New From Our Distributed Presses! <i>Take Back The Fight, A Spy for an Unknown Country</i> and More!](https://cupblog.org/2020/10/28/new-from-our-distributed-presses-take-back-the-fight-a-spy-for-an-unknown-country-and-more/) - Our weekly list of new books is now available! Fernwood Publishing Take Back The FightOrganizing Feminism for the Digital AgeNora LoretoIn Take Back The Fight, Nora Loreto examines the state of modern feminism in Canada and argues that feminists must organize to take back feminism from politicians, business leaders and journalists who distort and obscure
- [Announcing Our 2020-2021 Social Work Catalog](https://cupblog.org/2020/10/28/announcing-our-2020-2021-social-work-catalog/) - Letter from the editor: I am pleased to share the 2020/2021 Columbia University Press social work catalog. If I were to pick a theme tying these books together, it would be “social work with the overlooked.” Social workers often serve the least of us, the people left behind or ignored, the ones who suffer in
- [New Book Tuesday! <i>Plastic Free</i> and <i>Super Polluters</i>, <i>The Contemporary Superhero Film</i>](https://cupblog.org/2020/10/27/new-book-tuesday-plastic-free-and-super-polluters-the-contemporary-superhero-film/) - Our weekly list of new books is now available! Plastic FreeThe Inspiring Story of a Global Environmental Movement and Why It MattersRebecca Prince-Ruiz and Joanna Atherfold FinnThis book explores how one of the world’s leading environmental campaigns took off and shares lessons from its success. From narrating marine-debris research expeditions to tracking what actually happens
- [Announcing Our Fall 2019 Catalog](https://cupblog.org/2019/05/13/announcing-our-fall-2019-catalog/) - Dear readers,Our fall catalog demonstrates the effort we make at Columbia University Press to bring global perspectives to contemporary issues. These books represent the remarkable achievements of our authors in considering the dynamics of social change in a turbulent era.Columbia authors are leaders in finding solutions for the environmental crisis that balance social, political,
- [Announcing Our Spring 2020 Catalog](https://cupblog.org/2019/12/16/announcing-our-spring-2020-catalog/) - Dear Readers, One of the most challenging questions we all face is how to balance thinking and action. That’s why I’m so proud to announce the books in this catalog, in which extraordinary writers and scholars lead the way in tying together theory and practice. Columbia’s Bernard E. Harcourt offers an inspiring and profound model for reconciling the two, Critique
- [Announcing Our 2020-2021 Business and Economics Catalog](https://cupblog.org/2020/07/28/announcing-our-2020-2021-business-and-economics-catalog/) - Letter from the editor: Columbia University Press is pleased to present our 2020-2021 new and upcoming titles from the Columbia Business School Publishing imprint, our economics program and our distributed lines. Columbia Business School Publishing focuses on value investing, finance, strategy, marketing, social enterprise, innovation, data analytics and decision science categories. We seek to bridge
- [Announcing our 2020-2021 Philosophy Catalog](https://cupblog.org/2020/09/28/announcing-our-2020-2021-philosophy-catalog/) - Letter from the Philosophy Editor: It is with great pleasure that I present the Columbia University Press philosophy catalog for 2020. These titles, which span subjects from critical theory to political philosophy to philosophy of religion, aesthetics, environmental and animal philosophy, philosophy of science, philosophy of gender, and Asian philosophy, reflect the interdisciplinary and global
- [Announcing Our Fall 2020 Science Catalog](https://cupblog.org/2020/10/16/announcing-our-fall-2020-science-catalog/) - Letter from the editor: The year 2020 has been a difficult one. But each book I have the good fortune to publish is a beacon to a better understanding of our world and ourselves. Please allow me to highlight a few of our new and forthcoming science books that have especially resonated with me while
- [New From Columbia Books on Architecture and the City! <i>Paths to Prison</i>](https://cupblog.org/2020/10/21/new-from-columbia-books-on-architecture-and-the-city-paths-to-prison/) - Our weekly list of new books is now available! Columbia Books on Architecture and the City Paths to PrisonOn the Architectures of CarceralityEdited by Isabelle Kirkham-LewittThe collected essays in this book implicate architecture in the more longstanding and pervasive legacies of racialized coercion in the United States—and follow the premise that to understand how the
- [New Book Tuesday! <i>Radio Empire, So You Want to Be a Neuroscientist?</i> and <i>Zhou History Unearthed</i>](https://cupblog.org/2020/10/20/new-book-tuesday-radio-empire-so-you-want-to-be-a-neuroscientist-and-zhou-history-unearthed/) - Our weekly list of new books is now available! From the Modernist Latitudes series Radio EmpireThe BBC’s Eastern Service and the Emergence of the Global Anglophone NovelDaniel Ryan MorseIn Radio Empire, Daniel Ryan Morse demonstrates the significance of the Eastern Service for global Anglophone literature and literary broadcasting. He traces how modernist writers used radio
- [Santiago Zabala responds to Ivelise Perniola review of <i>Why Only Art Can Save Us</i>](https://cupblog.org/2020/10/14/santiago-zabala-responds-to-ivelise-perniola-review-of-why-only-art-can-save-us/) - “Zabala's extraordinary book strikes at the very heart of our spiritual predicament. From austerity politics to security measures, everything is legitimized with the axiom that we live in a state of emergency. The first task of the critique of ideology today is thus to dispel this myth of emergency—something that Zabala does brilliantly, combining theoretical
- [Wanting Everything: Tactics, Rights, and Queer/Feminist Care <br><h3>Jill Richards in conversation with Sangina Patnaik, and Kelly Mee Rich</h3></br>](https://cupblog.org/2020/10/23/wanting-everything-tactics-rights-and-queer-feminist-care-jill-richards-in-conversation-with-sangina-patnaik-and-kelly-mee-rich/) - “The Fury Archives is a tour-de-force study of modernist women’s struggles for citizenship and human rights across transnational geographies. Richards reminds us of the variegated sites and everydayness of politics—from the sphere of reproductive labor to the quotidian committee meeting—and offers a compelling genealogy of the intersections between women’s rights and human rights. It is
- [Take a Tour of Our MSA Virtual Exhibit with Philip Leventhal](https://cupblog.org/2020/10/22/take-a-tour-of-our-msa-virtual-exhibit-with-philip-leventhal/) - Hi, I am Philip Leventhal, editor for literary studies at Columbia University Press, and I would like to welcome you to our Modernist Studies Association virtual exhibit.With each month that the COVID pandemic continues, we miss out on another occasion that in years past we would anticipate and look forward to. So while I am
- [Book Reading: The Moments When I Am Not a Woman <br><h3>By Dr. Leslea Hlusko</h3></br>](https://cupblog.org/2020/10/16/book-reading-the-moments-when-i-am-not-a-woman-by-dr-leslea-hlusko/) - “The portraits in The Bearded Lady Project intentionally cause double takes, forcing the viewer to look, then look again. But their real power lies in how they require us to look inward and see that antediluvian ideas about who can and cannot do science still linger. The accompanying stories of remarkable women in paleontology make
- [New From Our Distributed Presses! <i>Black Matters</i> and <i>Making Hong Kong China</i>](https://cupblog.org/2020/10/14/new-from-our-distributed-presses-black-matters-and-making-hong-kong-china/) - Our weekly list of new books is now available! Fernwood Publishing Black MattersAfua Cooper and Wilfried RaussertHalifax’s Poet Laureate Afua Cooper and photographer Wilfried Raussert collaborate in this book of poems and photographs focused on everyday Black experiences. The result is a jambalaya — a dialogue between image and text. Cooper translates Raussert’s photos into
- [Take a Tour of Our SVP Virtual Booth with Miranda Martin](https://cupblog.org/2020/10/14/take-a-tour-of-our-svp-virtual-booth-with-miranda-martin/) - Hello! Welcome to Columbia University Press’s virtual booth for this year’s meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. I’m Miranda Martin, the press’s science editor. We probably haven’t had an opportunity to meet in person yet, but I hope that will be possible next year.We continue to publish books across the sciences, and our paleontology
- [Book Excerpt! <i>On the Prowl</i> (chapter 7)](https://cupblog.org/2020/10/16/book-excerpt-on-the-prowl-chapter-7/) - “On the Prowl is a superb book, both enjoyable and instructive. I’m greatly impressed with the huge amount of data that Hallett and Harris have collected and presented in a most readable manner. The complex evolutionary history and relationships of the cats will keep researchers arguing for years.” ~George Schaller, senior conservationist, Wildlife Conservation Society, and
- [New Book Tuesday! <i>Artificial Whiteness</i> and <i>Working for Respect</i>](https://cupblog.org/2020/10/13/new-book-tuesday-artificial-whiteness-and-working-for-respect/) - Our weekly list of new books is now available! Artificial WhitenessPolitics and Ideology in Artificial IntelligenceYarden KatzYarden Katz reveals the ideology embedded in the concept of artificial intelligence, contending that it both serves and mimics the logic of white supremacy. He demonstrates that understandings of AI, as a field and a technology, have shifted dramatically
- [Columbia University Press Congratulates Author Paul Milgrom on Winning the Nobel Prize in Economics](https://cupblog.org/2020/10/12/columbia-university-press-congratulates-author-paul-milgrom-on-winning-the-nobel-prize-in-economics/) - American economist Paul Milgrom along with his colleague Robert Wilson have been awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for their contributions to auction theory, announced the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Monday, October 12.Milgrom, the Shirley R. and Leonard W. Ely, Jr. Professor of Humanities and Science in the Department of Economics
- [Q&A: M'hamed Oualdi on <i>A Slave Between Empires</i>](https://cupblog.org/2020/10/11/qa-mhamed-oualdi-on-a-slave-between-empires/) - "M'hamed Oualdi’s biography cum social history is dazzling. In life and death, General Husayn Ibn ‘Abdallah's story reveals unlikely itineraries, unsuspected traveling companions, and hidden transactions that call into question conventional histories of nineteenth-century North Africa and the Ottoman Empire. The author’s presentation of archives as exiles, émigrés, and migrants is particularly original.” ~Julia Clancy-Smith,
- [Noëlle McAfee on Our Paranoid Politics](https://cupblog.org/2020/10/10/noelle-mcafee-on-our-paranoid-politics/) - “In exploring the fear of breakdown that underlies human existence, Noëlle McAfee creates a genuine intellectual breakthrough—her book is a stunningly original exploration of the political significance of mourning. This is one of the most thrilling books I have read in years.” ~Mari Ruti, author of Penis Envy and Other Bad Feelings: The Emotional Costs
- [Take a Tour of Our MESA Virtual Exhibit with Caelyn Cobb](https://cupblog.org/2020/10/10/take-a-tour-of-our-mesa-virtual-exhibit-with-caelyn-cobb/) - Hello and welcome to the Columbia University Press virtual exhibit booth for this year’s meeting of the Middle East Studies Association. This year is unusual in more than one way for MESA. Not only are we all attending the conference virtually, but we’ll be attending over the course of two weeks. It’s a bonus for
- [Join Wendy Lochner for a Tour of our SPEP Virtual Exhibit!](https://cupblog.org/2020/10/08/join-wendy-lochner-for-a-tour-of-our-spep-virtual-exhibit/) - Hello, philosophers of all stripes and types.I’m Wendy Lochner, the philosophy editor at Columbia University Press. Since the coronavirus pandemic has canceled most of the fall/winter conferences—the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy and the American Philosophical Association Eastern Division annual meetings included—we are mounting a virtual book exhibit on our blog.I am delighted to
- [Webinar! SupChina’s Kaiser Kuo in Conversation with Brian Dott](https://cupblog.org/2020/07/27/webinar-supchinas-kaiser-kuo-in-conversation-with-brian-dott/) -  Chinese cuisine without chile peppers seems unimaginable. Entranced by the fiery taste, diners worldwide have fallen for Chinese cooking. In China, chiles are everywhere, from dried peppers hanging from eaves to Mao’s boast that revolution would be impossible without chiles, from the eighteenth-century novel Dream of the Red Chamber to contemporary music videos. Indeed, they are
- [Book Launch! David Lawler and Jeffrey D. Sachs on Globalization, Pandemics, Mass Protests, and Environmental Crisis](https://cupblog.org/2020/06/10/book-launch-david-lawler-and-jeffrey-d-sachs-on-globalization-pandemics-mass-protests-and-environmental-crisis/) -  Today’s most urgent problems are fundamentally global. They require nothing less than concerted, planet wide action if we are to secure a long-term future. But humanity’s story has always been on a global scale. In The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions, Jeffrey D. Sachs, renowned economist and expert on sustainable development, turns
- [Q&A: Victor McFarland on the History of the U.S.-Saudi Alliance](https://cupblog.org/2020/06/20/qa-victor-mcfarland-on-the-history-of-the-u-s-saudi-alliance/) - “The extraordinary relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia has influenced both countries, often for the worse. There is no better guide to the origins of this complex alliance than Victor McFarland’s new book. Anyone with an interest in the U.S. role in the Middle East should read it.” ~Odd Arne Westad, author of
- [Book Review: Basic Literacy in Toxicology <br><h3>Lawrence P. Riff</h3></br>](https://cupblog.org/2020/09/17/book-review-basic-literacy-in-toxicology-lawrence-p-riff/) - Review of The Alchemy of Disease: How Chemicals and Toxins: Cause Cancer and Other Illness, by John Whysner, as published in the Los Angeles Daily Journal. • • • • • • In the age of Covid-19, we are all armchair epidemiologists. We study charts and maps as the virus moves through regions and subpopulations;
- [New Book Tuesday! <i>A Community of Scholars</i> and <i>Hire Purpose</i>](https://cupblog.org/2020/10/06/new-book-tuesday-a-community-of-scholars-and-hire-purpose/) - Our weekly list of new books is now available! From the Columbiana seires A Community of ScholarsSeventy-Five Years of The University Seminars at ColumbiaEdited by Thomas VinciguerraA Community of Scholars is a seventy-fifth anniversary celebration of the founding of the University Seminars. It brings together essays by seminar chairs and other leading participants that exemplify the
- [Columbia University Press Announces the 2020 Student Poetry Contest Winners!](https://cupblog.org/2020/05/13/columbia-university-press-announces-the-2020-student-poetry-contest-winners/) - April was National Poetry Month, and this year, it marked the fourth annual high school poetry contest, in which high school students are invited to submit an original poem inspired by one from the Granger's database. The contest has grown each year and is open to high schools everywhere, regardless of whether that school subscribes
- [Introducing the Hong Kong Literature Series! <br><h3>From the Chinese University of Hong Kong Press</h3></br>](https://cupblog.org/2020/09/30/introducing-the-hong-kong-literature-series-from-the-chinese-university-of-hong-kong-press/) - In this video, series editor John Minford introduces the Hong Kong Literature Series and speaks to how this collection reveals the hidden depths of Hong Kong’s soul. The series is published by The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press. Now Available! The DrunkardLiu Yichang. Edited by John Minford and Nick Hordern. Translated by Charlotte YiuThe
- [Evan Friss on Bicycling Through the Pandemic](https://cupblog.org/2020/09/30/evan-friss-on-bicycling-through-the-pandemic/) - “In On Bicycles, Evan Friss fills in the missing chapters that bicycles hold in New York City’s near-miraculous transportation history and shows how the city’s streets are finally catching up with them.” ~!Janette Sadik-Khan, Bloomberg Associates, former NYC transportation commissioner Today we have a guest post by Evan Friss, an associate professor of history at James
- [New From Our Distributed Presses! <i>The Practice of Medicine as Being in Time, A History of Cultic Images in China</i>, and More!](https://cupblog.org/2020/09/30/new-from-our-distributed-presses-the-practice-of-medicine-as-being-in-time-a-history-of-cultic-images-in-china-and-more/) - Our weekly list of new books is now available! ibidem Press From the Studies in Medical Philosophy series The Practice of Medicine as Being in TimeRaymond C. BarfieldThe practice of medicine serves people who are facing limits in their lives brought on by the threats of disease and death. Because good doctoring is so intimately related
- [New Book Tuesday! <i>Mind Ecologies</i> and <i>A Misunderstood Friendship</i>](https://cupblog.org/2020/09/29/new-book-tuesday-mind-ecologies-and-a-misunderstood-friendship/) - Our weekly list of new books is now available! Mind EcologiesBody, Brain, and WorldMatthew Crippen and Jay SchulkinMatthew Crippen, a philosopher of mind, and Jay Schulkin, a behavioral neuroscientist, offer an innovative interdisciplinary theory of mind. They argue that pragmatism in combination with phenomenology is not only able to give an unusually persuasive rendering of
- [Martin V. Melosi on Garbage and Climate Change](https://cupblog.org/2020/09/28/martin-v-melosi-on-garbage-and-climate-change/) - “Fresh Kills frames Staten Island’s iconic landfill as not just a repository for solid waste but also a monument to consumer culture. This is an immensely readable and valuable book by a distinguished scholar of environmental history.” ~Michael Rawson, author of Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston Today’s guest post comes to us
- [Andrew Kahn and Irina Reyfman on Alexander Radishchev’s <i>Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow</i>](https://cupblog.org/2020/09/29/andrew-kahn-and-irina-reyfman-on-alexander-radishchevs-journey-from-st-petersburg-to-moscow/) - “Combining profound linguistic sophistication with enviable literary style, Andrew Kahn and Irina Reyfman, two of today’s most esteemed scholars of Russian literature, have produced the definitive translation of Radishchev’s classic revolutionary cri de coeur.” ~Douglas Smith, author of Rasputin: Faith, Power, and the Twilight of the Romanovs We’re wrapping up National Translation Month with a
- [Q&A: Susanne Fusso on <i>The Nose and Other Stories</i>](https://cupblog.org/2020/09/22/qa-susanne-fusso-on-the-nose-and-other-stories/) - “The first major English translation of Gogol’s stories in more than twenty years, The Nose and Other Stories captures his humor and complexity brilliantly. This volume will prove to be a great read for students and Russian literature enthusiasts alike.” ~Bruce Holl, Trinity University We are continuing our Translation Month celebration today with a look
- [New from Agenda Publishing! <i>Finntopia</i>](https://cupblog.org/2020/09/23/new-from-agenda-publishing-finntopia/) - Our weekly list of new books is now available! Agenda Publishing FinntopiaWhat We Can Learn from the World’s Happiest CountryDanny Dorling and Annika KoljonenIn the quest for the best of all possible societies, Danny Dorling and Annika Koljonen explore what we might learn from Finnish success.
- [New Book Tuesday! <i>Bombay Hustle, Quality Shareholders,</i> and more!](https://cupblog.org/2020/09/22/new-book-tuesday-bombay-hustle-quality-shareholders-and-more/) - Our weekly list of new books is now available! From the Film and Culture series Bombay HustleMaking Movies in a Colonial CityDebashree MukherjeeBombay Hustle presents an ambitious history of Indian cinema as a history of material practice, bringing new insights to studies of media, modernity, and the late colonial city. From the Columbia Studies in International
- [Book Launch: <i>Critique & Praxis</i>](https://cupblog.org/2020/09/10/book-launch-critique-praxis/) - Canceled! We are all mourning the loss of the great Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and extend to her family our deepest condolences. #StreetRidersNYC are not riding.Let’s meet instead today at the vigil for RBG in NYC. Time & location will be posted on Bernard E. Harcourt’s website In peace & solidarity. Forthcoming book talks Read an excerptMore
- [New From Our Distributed Presses! <i>Superpowers of Scale</i>](https://cupblog.org/2020/09/16/new-from-our-distributed-presses-superpowers-of-scale/) - Our weekly list of new books is now available! Columbia Books on Architecture and the City Superpowers of ScaleAndres JaqueDocumenting a series of performances, research projects, installations, films, characters, and exhibitions, Superpowers of Scale demonstrates the breadth of architectural knowledge and its possible representations.
- [New Book Tuesday! <i>Desolation and Enlightenment</i>](https://cupblog.org/2020/09/15/new-book-tuesday-desolation-and-enlightenment/) - Our weekly list of new books is now available! Desolation and EnlightenmentPolitical Knowledge After Total War, Totalitarianism, and the Holocaust, anniversary editionIra KatznelsonIn this major intellectual history, Ira Katznelson examines the works of Hannah Arendt, Robert Dahl, Richard Hofstadter, Harold Lasswell, Charles Lindblom, Karl Polanyi, and David Truman, detailing their engagement with the larger project
- [Columbia University Press Supports Independent Bookstores](https://cupblog.org/2020/08/29/columbia-university-press-supports-independent-bookstores/) - When the COVID-19 pandemic forced shutdowns all over the world, Columbia University Press wanted to show its support for the literary community. With independent bookstores and publishers, already constantly challenged by corporate behemoths, facing an uncertain future, our director Jennifer Crewe, offered to reimburse every staff member up to $100 spent at independent bookstores. Hungry
- [New From Our Distributed Presses! <i>Quantitative Easing, ohpikinâwasowin/Growing a Child, Being a Parent in the Field</i> and more!](https://cupblog.org/2020/09/09/new-from-our-distributed-presses-quantitative-easing-ohpikinawasowin-growing-a-child-being-a-parent-in-the-field-and-more/) - Our weekly list of new books is now available! Agenda Publishing From the Finance Matters series Quantitative EasingJonathan AshworthThis book offers a thorough and perspicacious analysis of QE, what has become a recovery method of last resort, and will be essential reading for anyone wanting to understand central banking’s role in the national economy. Blockchain
- [Van C. Gessel on Endō Shūsaku’s <i>Sachiko</i>](https://cupblog.org/2020/09/03/van-c-gessel-on-endo-shusakus-sachiko/) - “An extraordinary novel by one of Japan’s literary masters, Sachiko is a testament to shared experiences, cruelty, loss, and the persistence of love and faith.” ~Foreword Reviews, starred review September is National Translation Month. Today, we present a guest post from Van C. Gessel, translator of Endō Shūsaku’s novel, Sachiko. Sachiko is set in Nagasaki in
- [The Unprecedented 1827 Osaka Incident <br><h3>By Kate Wildman Nakai, Mark Teeuwen, and Fumiko Miyazaki</h3></br>](https://cupblog.org/2020/09/08/the-unprecedented-1827-osaka-incident-by-kate-wildman-nakai-mark-teeuwen-and-fumiko-miyazaki/) - “Christian Sorcerers on Trial is a model of consummate scholarship and at the same time a gripping narrative which will be of great interest not just to students of Japanese religion and history, but to anyone curious about Japan in the decades immediately before its so-called ‘opening up’ by the West.” ~John Butler, Asian Review of
- [New Book Tuesday! <i>The Huayan University Network</i>](https://cupblog.org/2020/09/08/new-book-tuesday-the-huayan-university-network/) - Our weekly list of new books is now available! The Huayan University NetworkThe Teaching and Practice of Avataṃsaka Buddhism in Twentieth-Century ChinaErik J. HammerstromIn The Huayan University Network, Erik J. Hammerstrom examines how Huayan Buddhism was imagined, taught, and practiced during this time of profound political and social change and, in so doing, recasts the
- [George Kallander on Na Man'gap's <i>The Diary of 1636</i>](https://cupblog.org/2020/09/15/george-kallander-on-na-mangaps-the-diary-of-1636/) - “The Diary of 1636 is a fascinating firsthand description of the turmoil and difficulties in Chosŏn Korea during the second Manchu invasion. George Kallander’s engaging and highly readable translation provides an understanding of the Chosŏn response to the invasions, internal power struggles, and consequences of this momentous event that reshaped the face of East Asia.” ~Michael J.
- [Translation Month! Celebrating Works of Literature and History from Japan, Korea, and Russia](https://cupblog.org/2020/09/01/translation-month-celebrating-works-of-literature-and-history-from-japan-korea-and-russia/) - September is National Translation Month, and we’re ready to celebrate! This year’s featured books take us back to unsettling times in Japan, Korea, and Russia. Peruse the list and book excerpts below, and check back every Tuesday for a guest post. In the meantime, explore last month’s features on women in translation, and be sure to
- [Reading List: Books About WWII and Its Aftermath in Translation](https://cupblog.org/2019/09/30/reading-list-books-about-wwii-and-its-aftermath-in-translation/) - It’s International Translation Day and we’re celebrating with a list of recommended reading that is sure to delight World War II buffs and aficionados. Bringing lesser known aspects of the time period to light, this compilation of books in translation ranges from political and military tactics to narratives of the war and its aftermath from
- [Book Excerpt! <i>Allies of Convenience: A Theory of Bargaining in U.S. Foreign Policy</i>](https://cupblog.org/2019/12/05/book-excerpt-allies-of-convenience-a-theory-of-bargaining-in-u-s-foreign-policy/) -  “Standard bargaining theories are puzzled by the ability of allies that are not only weak but also distasteful to get so much advantage when dealing with the United States. In an important contribution, Evan N. Resnick shows that the answer lies in the open nature of the American domestic political system that allows the
- [Why A Novel About Post-War Trauma—Filled With Difficult Personalities—Makes a Great Beach Read](https://cupblog.org/2019/08/27/why-a-novel-about-post-war-trauma-filled-with-difficult-personalities-makes-a-great-beach-read/) - “Klotsvog is a story of everyday darkness told by the ultimate unreliable narrator… As Maya vibrates on a frequency between ruthless self-determination and charming narcissism, Klotsvog infects its audience with a compulsion to determine which dominates.” ~Foreword Reviews August is Women in Translation Month, and today we're celebrating the release of Margarita Khemlin’s Klotsvog, which tells the
- [Q&A: Claire Seiler on <i>Midcentury Suspension</i>](https://cupblog.org/2020/09/02/qa-claire-seiler-on-midcentury-suspension/) - “It is impossible not to be impressed by the highly accomplished results on offer in Claire Seiler's reconfiguration of early postwar transatlantic literature in terms of the concept of the "midcentury" and the forms of temporal and theoretical suspension she identifies with it. I suspect that her revisionist efforts to construct the intellectual framework of
- [New From Our Distributed Presses! <i>The Great Smog of China, Mainstreaming the Global Radical Right, Transgressive Truths and Flattering Lies</i> and More!](https://cupblog.org/2020/09/02/new-from-our-distributed-presses-the-great-smog-of-china-mainstreaming-the-global-radical-right-transgressive-truths-and-flattering-lies-and-more/) - Our weekly list of new books is now available! Association for Asian Studies From the Asia Shorts series The Great Smog of ChinaA Short Event History of Air PollutionAnna L. Ahlers, Mette Halskov Hansen, and Rune SvarverudThe Great Smog of China traces Chinese air pollution events dating back to more than 2,000 years ago. Fernwood Publishing
- [New Book Tuesday! <i>Little Lindy Is Kidnapped</i> and <i>Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow</i>](https://cupblog.org/2020/09/01/new-book-tuesday-little-lindy-is-kidnapped-and-journey-from-st-petersburg-to-moscow/) - Our weekly list of new books is now available! From the Russian Library series Journey from St. Petersburg to MoscowAlexander RadishchevTranslated by Andrew Kahn and Irina ReyfmanAlexander Radishchev’s Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow is among the most important pieces of writing to come out of Russia in the age of Catherine the Great. An account
- [Online Teaching and Collective Intelligence: The Poison or the Cure?<br><h3>By Catherine Malabou</h3></br>](https://cupblog.org/2020/08/04/online-teaching-and-collective-intelligence-the-poison-or-the-cureby-catherine-malabou/) - “In this remarkable book, Catherine Malabou focuses on the transformations of ‘intelligence’ as it moves from genetics to epigenetics to automatism. Historically grounded, philosophically astute, and engagingly written, this book is highly recommended for anyone interested in intelligence—artificial and natural—and in contemporary configurations of what counts as human.” ~N. Katherine Hayles, author of Unthought: The
- [Join Myles Thompson on a Tour of Our AOM 2020 Virtual Booth](https://cupblog.org/2020/08/07/join-myles-thompson-on-a-tour-of-our-aom-2020-virtual-booth/) - Socially Distanced greetings,I’m Myles Thompson, the publisher for Columbia Business School Publishing, and because we won’t be together in Vancouver, I want to invite you to our Academy of Management virtual book exhibit on the Columbia University Blog.I am honored to present our recent and forthcoming authors and titles for the Columbia Business School Publishing
- [Announcing our 2020-2021 Politics and International Affairs Catalog](https://cupblog.org/2020/08/25/announcing-our-2020-2021-politics-and-international-affairs-catalog/) - Letter from the editors: The year 2020 has been one of unprecedented political challenges, and we are pleased to offer here some new books that may help make sense of them. Our political theory list features some timely books that address critique, racism, and identity politics. Critique and Praxis by Bernard Harcourt insists that critical
- [New Book Tuesday! <i>One UP, The Future of Us, Social Appearances,</i> and More!](https://cupblog.org/2020/08/25/new-book-tuesday-one-up-the-future-of-us-social-appearances-and-more/) - Our weekly list of new books is now available! One UpCreativity, Competition, and the Global Business of Video GamesJoost van DreunenOne Up offers a pioneering empirical analysis of innovation and strategy in the video game industry to explain how it has evolved from a fringe activity to become a mainstream form of entertainment. Social AppearancesA Philosophy
- [Book Excerpt! <i>Dickinson's Nerves, Frost's Woods: Poetry in the Shadow of the Past</i>](https://cupblog.org/2019/04/16/book-excerptdickinsons-nerves-frosts-woods-poetry-in-the-shadow-of-the-past/) - “Logan’s ear can be superb, and when he’s on charitable form, he can teach any reader to hear better.”~ Cal Revely-Calder, Times Literary Supplement An Excerpt From Chapter 8: Dickinson’s Nerves, Frost’s Woods Our celebration of National Poetry Month continues today with this book excerpt and media roundup from William Logan’s Dickinson’s Nerves, Frost’s Woods: Poetry in
- [NonVerbal Precursors of Language: Intersubjective Relations Provide an Emotional Foundation of Language<br><h3>By Herbert S. Terrace</h3></br>](https://cupblog.org/2020/08/21/nonverbal-precursors-of-language-intersubjective-relations-provide-an-emotional-foundation-of-languageby-herbert-s-terrace/) - Today, we are sharing the the next edition in this blog post series on The Origins of Language, by Herbert S. Terrace, author of Why Chimpanzees Can’t Learn Language and Only Humans Can. In this post, Terrace discusses how intersubjective relations provide an emotional foundation of language.Originally published in PsychologyToday.com.• • • • • • That language
- [Book Excerpt! <i>The Greening of Asia</i>, By Mark L. Clifford (introduction)](https://cupblog.org/2020/04/09/book-excerpt-the-greening-of-asia-by-mark-l-clifford-introduction/) - “With wisdom and insights sprinkled throughout, The Greening of Asia demonstrates that innovation and a core commitment to sustainability are beginning to build a greener prosperity in the world's fastest growing region.... A well-researched, hopeful book.” ~Doug Ogden, Asian Review of Books The economic growth in Asia runs parallel to the increase of environmental issues in the
- [A Thank You Message to All the Essential Workers](https://cupblog.org/2020/04/11/a-thank-you-message-to-all-the-essential-workers/) -  For Columbians, the fight against coronavirus in New York City—and worldwide—is personal. As part of the Columbia community we send our appreciation and admiration for all of you essential workers fighting to keep us fed, safe and healthy during this crisis. For opportunities to volunteer and donate to programs aiding essential workers on the
- [Book Excerpt! "Out of the Laughing Woods," by Vo Thi Hao](https://cupblog.org/2020/08/20/book-excerpt-out-of-the-laughing-woods-by-vo-thi-hao/) - “Long awaited in English, these stories are beautiful, nuanced translations from the Vietnamese side of the America-Vietnam War. One of the best collections I have read from postwar Vietnam, the stories illuminate the country’s darkest period with humor, shock, and touching insights. Other Moons is a remarkable achievement. Highly recommended.” ~Andrew X. Pham, author of Catfish and
- [New from Our Distributed Presses! <i>Science with Street Value, Creative Industries in Syria, How to Use Exploratory Scenario Planning (XSP)</i> and More!](https://cupblog.org/2020/08/19/new-from-our-distributed-presses-science-with-street-value-creative-industries-in-syria-how-to-use-exploratory-scenario-planning-xsp-and-more/) - Our weekly list of new books is now available! ibidem Press Science with Street ValueA Physicist’s Wanderings off the Beaten TrackTheodore ModisIn his groundbreaking book, Predictions: Society’s Telltale Signature Reveals the Past and Forecasts the Future, Theodore Modis showed readers a fascinating new way to understand our society and ourselves by applying fundamental scientific concepts
- [New Book Tuesday! <i>Human Relations Commissions</i> and <i>Global Entanglements of a Man</i>](https://cupblog.org/2020/08/18/new-book-tuesday-human-relations-commissions-and-global-entanglements-of-a-man/) - Our weekly list of new books is now available! Human Relations CommissionsRelieving Racial Tensions in the American CityBrian Calfano and Valerie Martinez-EbersBrian Calfano and Valerie Martinez-Ebers examine the history and current efforts of human relations commissions in promoting positive intergroup outcomes and enforcing antidiscrimination laws. The book sheds light on the advantages and disadvantages of
- [Quan Manh Ha on <i>Other Moons</i>](https://cupblog.org/2020/08/18/quan-manh-ha-on-other-moons/) - “Unlike much of the large body of fiction from American writers that deals with what the Vietnamese call the “American War,” these stories, most of which are set in rural areas of the country and feature humble characters, focus less on the experience of combat and more on its lingering effects in the national life.
- [Women in Translation Month 2020! A Celebration of Philosophy and Literature](https://cupblog.org/2020/08/01/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 grown into a global movement celebrating the voices of women writers around the world.This month,
- [Zakiya Hanafi on Translating Works of Philosophy](https://cupblog.org/2020/08/11/zakiya-hanafi-on-translating-works-of-philosophy/) - “This is a powerful and paradigm-shifting aesthetics of society, by a great philosophical talent.”~Simon Critchley, author of Tragedy, the Greeks, and UsIt’s the second week of Women in Translation Month! This week’s #WITMONTH feature comes to us from Italy. In Social Appearances: A Philosophy of Display and Prestige, Barbara Carnevali offers a philosophical examination of
- [Book Excerpt! <i>Social Appearances: A Philosophy of Display and Prestige</i>, by Barbara Carnevali](https://cupblog.org/2020/08/13/book-excerpt-social-appearances-a-philosophy-of-display-and-prestige-by-barbara-carnevali/) - “Barbara Carnevali's concept of 'social aesthetics' is tremendously powerful, and explains a lot of otherwise baffling phenomena. Carnevali makes me think that the rise of Orban and Trump and the Brexit movement is better understood as a matter of social 'taste' than in terms of ideology, or economics, or identity.” ~Blake Gopnik, author of Warhol
- [Independent Publishing in India – The Story of Tulika Books <br><h3><i>25 years of publishing excellence</h3></i></br>](https://cupblog.org/2020/08/12/independent-publishing-in-india-the-story-of-tulika-books-25-years-of-publishing-excellence/) - Tulika (meaning a painter’s brush or writer’s quill in Sanskrit) was a venture started in the late 1980s by Radhika Menon and Indira (Indu) Chandrasekhar. In the early years, besides running a DTP unit providing publishing services, Tulika functioned as the editorial and subscription office of the journals Social Scientist and Journal of Arts &
- [New Book Tuesday! <i>A College of Her Own</i> and <i>Common Sense</i>](https://cupblog.org/2020/08/11/new-book-tuesday-a-college-of-her-own-and-common-sense/) - Our weekly list of new books is now available! A College of Her OwnThe History of BarnardRobert McCaugheyA College of Her Own offers a comprehensive and lively narrative of Barnard from its beginnings to the present day. Through the stories of presidents and leading figures as well as students and faculty, Robert McCaughey recounts Barnard’s history
- [A System of Uneasy Cooperation](https://cupblog.org/2019/06/06/a-system-of-uneasy-cooperation/) - “Denunciation is more pervasive than we think, yet remains poorly studied and understood. Using three case studies, Bergemann advances new hypotheses and helps shed light on this intriguing social phenomenon.” ~ Stathis N. Kalyvas, author of The Logic of Violence in Civil War We've been featuring Judge Thy Neighbor: Denunciations in the Spanish Inquisition, Romanov Russia, and Nazi
- [Taking the Risk to Translate as Our Intelligence Morphs<br><h3>By Carolyn Shread</h3></br>](https://cupblog.org/2020/08/06/taking-the-risk-to-translate-as-our-intelligence-morphsby-carolyn-shread/) - “Malabou, with her characteristic clarity and insight, radically redraws the lines between humans and machines, brains and computers. Morphing Intelligence is a major achievement and not to be missed.” ~Adrian Johnston, author of A New German Idealism: Hegel, Žižek, and Dialectical Materialism In observance of Women in Translation Month, this week we are featuring Morphing
- [Join Eric Schwartz on a Tour of Our ASA 2020 Virtual Booth](https://cupblog.org/2020/08/08/join-eric-schwartz-on-a-tour-of-our-asa-2020-virtual-booth/) - Eric Schwartz, Editorial Director for Columbia University Press, here. Since the coronavirus pandemic has canceled most conferences for the foreseeable future, the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association included, we’ve gone virtual for book exhibits. While I wish I could be with you in person, I am still excited to present the best lineup
- [ASA  Book Giveaway! <i>Measuring Culture</i>](https://cupblog.org/2020/08/09/asa-book-giveaway-measuring-culture/) - “Measuring Culture is the canonical text we have been waiting for in the sociology of culture. It is a massive achievement that will be the definitive account on the topic for a long time to come. I'll be thinking with it, teaching with it, and recommending it.” ~Clayton Childress, author of Under the Cover: The
- [Big Tech Sucks at Gaming<br><h3>By Joost van Dreunen</h3></br>](https://cupblog.org/2020/08/10/big-tech-sucks-at-gamingby-joost-van-dreunen/) - “Joost van Dreunen’s One Up reflects his many years of experience and makes interesting observations about the games business, offering his unique perspective as a consultant and an academic. His positioning at the intersection between creators, manufacturers, business executives, investors, and financial analysts makes his book a must-read for anyone interested in learning more about
- [The Other Corona Crisis: The Anger It’s Going to Unleash Once It’s Over <br><h3>By Mark Blyth</h3></br>](https://cupblog.org/2020/08/04/the-other-corona-crisis-the-anger-its-going-to-unleash-once-its-over-by-mark-blyth/) - “With considerable sophistication and a good dose of humour, this book dissects the popular anger that has made our economics unsustainable and our politics dysfunctional. Lonergan and Blyth rightly call for a reset of our current model of capitalism. To their great credit, they also provide creative – and practical – ideas for moving forward.”
- [Q&A: R. Edward Freeman, Kirsten E. Martin, and Bidhan L. Parmar on <i>The Power of And</i>](https://cupblog.org/2020/08/08/qa-r-edward-freeman-kirsten-e-martin-and-bidhan-l-parmar-on-the-power-of-and/) - “The Power of And shows the way forward, illustrating how businesses can embed powerful purpose in their strategy, intertwining ethics and responsibility with value creation. Freeman, Martin, and Parmar weave a compelling narrative, acknowledging the complexities of organizations and people and their effect on societies.” ~Martina Hund-Mejean, former CFO of Mastercard, chair of the
- [Five Examples of China’s Fintech Strength<br><h3>By Sara Hsu and Jianjun Li</h3></br>](https://cupblog.org/2020/08/09/five-examples-of-chinas-fintech-strengthby-sara-hsu-and-jianjun-li/) - “China has emerged as a leader in the global fintech industry, but there has been limited insight into this development. This book provides a wonderful summary of China’s fintech development, covering topics such as digital payment systems, peer-to-peer lending, and online consumer credit.” ~Bohui Zhang, executive associate dean and presidential chair professor, Chinese University of
- [Announcing Our 2020-2021 Sociology Catalog](https://cupblog.org/2020/08/06/announcing-our-2020-2021-sociology-catalog/) - Letter from the editor: It is with great pleasure that, on behalf of my colleagues at Columbia University Press, I introduce this year’s sociology catalog. These are interesting times in the wider world. With our sociology publishing at Columbia we hope to help you understand it. The books in this catalog exemplify the quality of
- [Author Event! Join Steve Coll in Conversation with Mary Kaldor and Saskia Sassen <br><h3>Chaired by Safwan M. Masri</br></h3>](https://cupblog.org/2020/08/06/author-event-join-steve-coll-in-conversation-with-mary-kaldor-and-saskia-sassen-chaired-by-safwan-m-masri/) - Provocative discussions on the global issues of our time with world-class scholars, authors, and thought leaders Tuesday, August 1112:00 – 1:00 PM EDT5:00 – 6:00 PM GMT +17:00 – 8:00 PM GMT +3 Register Warfare in the twenty-first century goes well beyond conventional armies and nation-states. In a world of diffuse conflicts taking place across
- [New from Our Distributed Presses! <i>Farming as Financial Asset, Market/Place,</i> and <i>Bounded Rationality</i>](https://cupblog.org/2020/08/05/new-from-our-distributed-presses-farming-as-financial-asset-market-place-and-bounded-rationality/) - Our weekly list of new books is now available! Agenda Publishing From the Economic Transformations series Farming as Financial AssetGlobal Finance and the Making of Institutional LandscapesStefan OumaIn a world with a growing population that needs to be fed, the financial returns from agriculture are sold as safe bets. The debate that this has prompted
- [New Book Tuesday! <i>Oath Keepers, On the Judgment of History,</i> and <i>Modern Sufis and the State</i>](https://cupblog.org/2020/08/04/new-book-tuesday-oath-keepers-on-the-judgment-of-history-and-modern-sufis-and-the-state/) - Our weekly list of new books is now available! Oath KeepersPatriotism and the Edge of Violence in a Right-Wing Antigovernment GroupSam JacksonIn Oath Keepers, Sam Jackson takes readers inside the world of the most prominent antigovernment group in the United States, examining its extensive online presence to discover how it builds support for its political
- [New from Our Distributed Presses! <i>Let Them Haunt Us</i> and <i>Modern Chinese History, 2nd ed.</i>](https://cupblog.org/2020/07/29/new-from-our-distributed-presses-let-them-haunt-us-and-modern-chinese-history-2nd-ed/) - Our weekly list of new books is now available! transcript publishing From the Image series Let Them Haunt UsHow Contemporary Aesthetics Challenge Trauma as the UnrepresentableAnna-Lena WernerLet Them Haunt Us analyzes contemporary aesthetics engaged in trauma and critically challenges its canonical status as »unrepresentable«. Focusing on case studies in the aesthetic practices of Janet Cardiff and
- [New Book Tuesday! <i>Sachiko</i>](https://cupblog.org/2020/07/28/new-book-tuesday-sachiko/) - Our weekly list of new books is now available! From the Weatherhead Books on Asia series SachikoA NovelEndō Shūsaku. Translated by Van C. GesselIn novels such as Silence, Endō Shūsaku examined the persecution of Japanese Christians in different historical eras. Sachiko, set in Nagasaki in the painful years between 1930 and 1945, is the story of two
- [Book Excerpt! <i>Rethinking Readiness</i> (introduction)](https://cupblog.org/2020/07/30/book-excerpt-rethinking-readiness-introduction/) - “Covering a wide range of natural hazards and man made threats, Schlegelmilch's book pushes us to think through the question that we ask all too often: are we truly prepared?” Daniel P. Aldrich, author of Black Wave and Building Resilience and director of the Security and Resilience Program at Northeastern University Rethinking Readiness offers an
- [Book Excerpt! <i>Degenerative Realism</i> (introduction)](https://cupblog.org/2020/07/29/book-excerpt-degenerative-realism-introduction/) - “One of the smartest books I’ve had the pleasure to read in recent years. Compelling, stimulating, far-reaching, and indispensable. Degenerative Realism is a rich, illuminating concept, plugged into the French national psyche while capturing the zeitgeist of our globalized economy, and full of potentialities for related fields. A must-read in a world caught between alternative
- [Q&A: Christy Wampole on <i>Degenerative Realism: Novel and Nation in Twenty-First-Century France</i>](https://cupblog.org/2020/07/28/qa-christy-wampole-on-degenerative-realism-novel-and-nation-in-twenty-first-century-france/) - “One of the smartest books I’ve had the pleasure to read in recent years. Compelling, stimulating, far-reaching, and indispensable. Degenerative Realism is a rich, illuminating concept, plugged into the French national psyche while capturing the zeitgeist of our globalized economy and full of potentialities for related fields. A must-read in a world caught between alternative
- [Book Excerpt! <i>Universality and Identity Politics</i> (introduction)](https://cupblog.org/2020/07/24/book-excerpt-universality-and-identity-politics-introduction/) - “Against the many theories conflating universality with positive content and violent oppression, Universality and Identity Politics illustrates how movements beyond the particular are indispensable for solidarity. Ceaseless catastrophes now rain down; McGowan boldly underwrites new political imaginings of equality and freedom.” ~Anna Kornbluh, author of The Order of Forms: Realism, Formalism, and Social Space We're ending this
- [New from Our Distributed Presses! <i>Everyday Violence in the Lives of Youth, More Powerful Together, Challenging the Right, Augmenting the Left,</i> and More!](https://cupblog.org/2020/07/22/new-from-our-distributed-presses-everyday-violence-in-the-lives-of-youth-more-powerful-together-challenging-the-right-augmenting-the-left-and-more/) - Our weekly list of new books is now available! Fernwood Publishing Everyday Violence in the Lives of YouthSpeaking Out and Pushing BackEdited by Helene Berman, Catherine Richardson, Kate Elliott, and Eugenia CanasWorking with Indigenous, queer, immigrant and homeless youth across Canada, this five-year Youth-based Participatory Action Research project used art to explore the many ways
- [New Book Tuesday! <i>Force of Words, The Diary of 1636, U.S. Strategy in the Asian Century</i> and More!](https://cupblog.org/2020/07/21/new-book-tuesday-force-of-words-the-diary-of-1636-u-s-strategy-in-the-asian-century-and-more/) - From the Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare series. Force of WordsThe Logic of Terrorist ThreatsJoseph M. BrownForce of Words is a groundbreaking examination of the roles threats play in terrorist strategies. Joseph M. Brown shows how terrorists use a variety of threats to achieve social control, economic attrition, political legitimacy, policy concessions, and other
- [Where Is the Universal?<br><h3>By Todd McGowan</h3></br>](https://cupblog.org/2020/07/23/where-is-the-universalby-todd-mcgowan/) - “Passionately yet patiently argued, Universality and Identity Politics looks back at earlier debates surrounding the universal and mounts fresh defenses of it. More than timely, this book writes to the moment.” ~Joan Copjec, author of Imagine There’s No Woman: Ethics and Sublimation The past few months have been fraught with civil disobedience—first in response to
- [Book Excerpt! <i>Design With Nature Now</i>](https://cupblog.org/2020/07/24/book-excerpt-design-with-nature-now/) - “This exceptional book presents the enduring wisdom of Ian McHarg to a new generation. His insights, freshly interpreted in the pages of landscape designs and drawings, give me hope for the future of our planet.” ~Bruce Babbitt, Former U.S. Secretary of the Interior We are ending this week's feature with an excerpt from Design with
- [Book Excerpt! <i>On the Prowl: In Search of Big Cat Origins</i> (preface)](https://cupblog.org/2020/07/17/book-excerpt-on-the-prowl-in-search-of-big-cat-origins-preface/) - “[An] erudite study of big cats.” ~Nature On the Prowl is a fully illustrated and approachable guide to the evolution of the big cats and what it portends for their conservation today. Mark Hallett and John M. Harris trace the origins of these iconic carnivores, venturing down the evolutionary pathways that produced the diversity of
- [New from Our Distributed Presses! <i>Ideology Over Economics, Political Participation in the Digital Age, Right-Wing Populism and Gender, </i> and More!](https://cupblog.org/2020/07/15/new-from-our-distributed-presses-ideology-over-economics-political-participation-in-the-digital-age-right-wing-populism-and-gender-and-more/) - Our weekly list of new books is now available! Fernwood Publishing Ideology Over EconomicsP3s in an Age of AusterityJohn LoxleyIn Ideology Over Economics, economist John Loxley examines the expansion of P3s following the 2008 global financial crisis, when corporations responded to the crisis by lobbying governments for financial assistance and austerity governments responded by expanding
- [New Book Tuesday! <i>Tortured Logic, Midcentury Suspension, American Zealots</i> and More!](https://cupblog.org/2020/07/14/new-book-tuesday-tortured-logic-midcentury-suspension-american-zealots-and-more/) - Our weekly list of new books is now available! Tortured LogicWhy Some Americans Support the Use of Torture in CounterterrorismErin M. Kearns and Joseph K. YoungIn Tortured Logic, Erin M. Kearns and Joseph K. Young draw upon a novel series of group experiments to understand how and why the average citizen might come to support the
- [Author Event! Join SupChina's Kaiser Kuo in Conversation with Brian Dott](https://cupblog.org/2020/07/13/author-event-join-supchinas-kaiser-kuo-in-conversation-with-brian-dott/) - Provocative discussions on the global issues of our time with world-class scholars, authors, and thought leaders Friday, July 1712:00 – 1:00 PM EDT5:00 – 6:00 PM GMT +17:00 – 8:00 PM GMT +3 Chinese cuisine without chile peppers seems unimaginable. Entranced by the fiery taste, diners worldwide have fallen for Chinese cooking. In China, chiles
- [Q&A: Mark Hallett and John M. Harris on <i>On the Prowl: In Search of Big Cat Origins</i>](https://cupblog.org/2020/07/16/qa-mark-hallett-and-john-m-harris-on-on-the-prowl-in-search-of-big-cat-origins/) - “On the Prowl brings together biological and paleontological research related to the origins and history of the big cats, with an original emphasis on Asiatic data, paying homage to their majesty, dignity, and beauty. Mark Hallett’s artwork has succeeded brilliantly in capturing their inner spirit and character, their vulnerability and vitality. This book will serve
- [Last of the Lions <br><h3>By Mark Hallett</h3></br>](https://cupblog.org/2020/07/14/last-of-the-lions-by-mark-hallett/) - “Hallett and Harris guide the reader on a 20-million-year tour of predator and prey evolution, using environmental change as an engine for adaptation and extinction. The narrative is engaging, spiked with a touch of controversy, and supported by superb illustrations. For those interested in the evolutionary origins of big cats, On the Prowl would be a valuable
- [We Are All Cannibals -- Claude Levi-Strauss](https://cupblog.org/2016/03/17/we-are-all-cannibals-claude-levi-strauss/) - "So varied are the modalities of cannibalism, so diverse its real or supposed functions, that we may come to doubt whether the notion of cannibalism as it is currently employed can be defined in a relatively precise manner. It dissolves or dissipates as soon as one attempts to grasp it. Cannibalism in itself has no
- [New Book Tuesday! Lectures by Koolhaas; Pictures by Bourdieu; and Poems by Salmun!](https://cupblog.org/2014/07/22/new-book-tuesday-lectures-by-koolhaas-pictures-by-bourdieu-and-poems-by-salmun/) - Our weekly listing of new titles now available: Preservation is Overtaking Us Rem Koolhaas; with a supplement by Jorge Otero-Pailos The Lives of Erich Fromm: Love's Prophet (Now available in paper) Lawrence J. Friedman Picturing Algeria (Now available in paper) Pierre Bourdieu; Foreword by Craig Calhoun The Right to Justification: Elements of a Constructivist Theory
- [Group Efforts: Changing Public Space -- Gavin Browning](https://cupblog.org/2015/11/04/group-efforts-changing-public-space-gavin-browning/) - "Parks and streets are also stewarded by the private sector. Manhattan’s celebrated Bryant Park and High Line are operated by wealthy non-profit conservancies, while Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) balkanize the city into branded swathes.... The projects described here do not claim to redress the inequities that foreclose opportunities for so many. But crucially, I think,
- [Group Efforts, a New Book from Columbia Books on Architecture and the City](https://cupblog.org/2015/12/21/group-efforts-a-new-book-from-columbia-books-on-architecture-and-the-city/) - View images from "Group Efforts," a new book from Columbia Books on Architecture and the City.
- [Interview with Richard Plunz, author of "A History of Housing in New York City"](https://cupblog.org/2016/10/19/interview-with-richard-plunz-author-of-a-history-of-housing-in-new-york-city/) - "Beyond doubt the large question facing New York housing production today has to do with a market that can not provide for the half of our households that are low income.... One can hope that growing public pressure bottom-up can merge with a top-down realization that we need to innovate in order to grow and prosper as a competitive and cosmopolitan global urban entity." -- Richard Plunz
- [Richard Plunz on Housing in New York City](https://cupblog.org/2016/11/18/richard-plunz-on-housing-in-new-york-city/) - Richard Plunz, author of "A History of Housing in New York City," discusses his book in an interview with Brian Lehrer.
- [New from Columbia Books on Architecture and the City!](https://cupblog.org/2020/01/15/new-from-columbia-books-on-architecture-and-the-city/) - Our weekly list of new books is now available! Ways of Knowing CitiesEdited by Laura Kurgan and Dare BrawleyWays of Knowing Cities considers the role of technology in generating, materializing, and contesting urban epistemologies—from ubiquitous sites of “smart” urbanism to discrete struggles over infrastructural governance to forgotten histories of segregation now naturalized in urban algorithms to
- [Interview with Sheldon Krimsky and Tania Simoncelli, authors of Genetic Justice](https://cupblog.org/2010/12/17/interview-with-sheldon-krimsky-and-tania-simoncelli-authors-of-genetic-justice/) - Leonard Lopate's show on WNYC includes a weekly future "Underreported," which looks at issues that are often relegated to the back of the newspaper. The latest installment focused on the use of forensic DNA databanks by law enforcement has exploded since the mid 1990s. The show examined the implications widespread stockpiling of genetic information has
- [Interview with Sheldon Krimsky and Tania Simoncelli, coauthors of Genetic Justice](https://cupblog.org/2011/03/28/interview-with-sheldon-krimsky-and-tania-simoncelli-coauthors-of-genetic-justice/) - The following is an interview with Sheldon Krimsky and Tania Simoncelli, coauthors of Genetic Justice: DNA Data Banks, Criminal Investigations, and Civil Liberties: Question: How are people’s privacy rights being compromised by expanding DNA databases for innocent arrestees? Sheldon Krimsky: Once a person’s DNA is in the national DNA database, that individual is faced with
- [Adam McKeown on immigration](https://cupblog.org/2011/07/01/adam-mckeown-on-immigration/) - The following is an essay by Adam McKeown, author of Melancholy Order: Asian Migration and the Globalization of Borders. Immigration law is the last and most unrepentant bastion of discrimination in the modern world. Among the causes for discrimination are birthplace, wealth, education, occupation, family ties, political sentiments, and health. Most attempts to reform immigration
- [Interview with Michael F. Armstrong, author of They Wished They Were Honest: The Knapp Commission and New York City Police Corruption](https://cupblog.org/2012/06/01/interview-with-michael-f-armstrong-author-of-they-wished-they-were-honest-the-knapp-commission-and-new-york-city-police-corruption/) - We conclude our feature on They Wished They Were Honest: The Knapp Commission and New York City Police Corruption, with an interview the book's author Michael F. Armstrong. In the interview Michael F. Armstrong discusses the book, corruption in the New York Police department in the 1970s, and the ways in which the police are
- [Mental Health, Culture, and Power in the War on Terror](https://cupblog.org/2015/01/13/mental-health-culture-and-power-in-the-war-on-terror/) - Read an excerpt from "Mental Health, Culture, and Power in the War on Terror," the first chapter of MENTAL HEALTH IN THE WAR ON TERROR, by Neil Krishan Aggarwal.
- [Discouraging North American and European Citizens from Foreign Jihad](https://cupblog.org/2015/01/15/discouraging-north-american-and-european-citizens-from-foreign-jihad/) - Read a guest post from Neil Krishan Aggarwal, author of MENTAL HEALTH IN THE WAR ON TERROR, in which he discusses a recent New York Times article on efforts to "stem the flow of their citizens traveling to fight in war zones in Muslim countries."
- [How to Catch a War Criminal](https://cupblog.org/2019/12/11/how-to-catch-a-war-criminal/) - “Extraordinary Justice is hands down the final verdict on the UN’s controversial ‘mixed tribunal.’ . . . Simply put, nobody knows more about the Khmer Rouge war crimes trials than Etcheson. This is a remarkable, three-dimensional study of the legally simple but politically complex proceedings that took longer to try five defendants than it did for
- [Caryl Rivers, Rosalind Chait Barnett: Single-Sex Ed Based on Baloney Science](https://cupblog.org/2010/11/29/caryl-rivers-rosalind-chait-barnett-single-sex-ed-based-on-baloney-science/) - In a recent op-ed Caryl Rivers and Rosalind Chait Barnett, authors of the forthcoming The Truth About Girls and Boys: Challenging Toxic Stereotypes About Our Children, applaud the recent decision by Boston school superintendent Carol Johnson to back away from an earlier decision to set up single-sex academies in the city's schools. Rivers and Barnett
- [Richard Kahlenberg on Education Reform](https://cupblog.org/2011/03/23/richard-kahlenberg-on-education-reform/) - "How did the budget crisis -- brought on by a recession caused by Wall Street -- end up in the laps of America’s schoolteachers? How did teachers, most of whom work very hard every day to educate schoolchildren, become the scapegoats in education reforms circles?"—Richard Kahlenberg One of the most interesting and thoughtful commentators on
- [Richard Kahlenberg on Cathie Black](https://cupblog.org/2011/04/08/richard-kahlenberg-on-cathie-black/) - "The qualities needed to run the New York City public school system -- not only a knowledge of education, but also some understanding of the circumstances of regular New York City students and their families -- are not easily learned in the penthouse suite."—Richard Kahlenberg on the resignation New York City school chancellor Cathie Black
- [Rosalind Barnett: Taking Gender Out of the Classroom](https://cupblog.org/2011/08/03/rosalind-barnett-taking-gender-out-of-the-classroom/) - "Claims of large gender differences are so pervasive and oft-repeated that they are assumed to be true. However, scores of peer-reviewed studies suggest that these claims are invalid. The fact that they are repeated over and over doesn't make them true."—Rosalind Barnett The quote above is from a recent interview with Rosalind Barnett, coauthor of
- [Caryl Rivers on The False Promises of Single-Sex Education](https://cupblog.org/2011/10/27/caryl-rivers-on-the-false-promises-of-single-sex-education/) - As the dubious assertions regarding differences between girls and boys begins to take hold, there has bee a push for single-sex education. In an article in the Huffington Post from earlier this month, Caryl Rivers coauthor of The Truth About Boys and Girls: Challenging Toxic Stereotypes About Our Children, describes the growth of the single-sex
- [Patron-Driven Acquisitions: #AAUP12 and Beyond](https://cupblog.org/2012/06/22/patron-driven-acquisitions-aaup12-and-beyond/) - The online conversation about PDA at #AAUP12.
- [Charles B. Strozier on memorializing 9/11](https://cupblog.org/2012/09/11/charles-b-strozier-on-memorializing-911/) - Charles B. Strozier and Scott Gabriel Knowles discuss the 9/11 memorial.
- [A Cautionary Tale on Education Investment Flops: Jonathan Knee on Squawk Box](https://cupblog.org/2016/12/20/a-cautionary-tale-on-education-investment-flops-jonathan-knee-on-squawk-box/) - Jonathan Knee, author of CLASS CLOWNS: HOW THE SMARTEST INVESTORS LOST BILLIONS IN EDUCATION, discusses the dangers of investing in education on CNBC's Squawk Box.
- [The Road to Disastrous Educational Businesses Is Paved With Good Intentions](https://cupblog.org/2016/12/21/the-road-to-disastrous-educational-businesses-is-paved-with-good-intentions/) - Read an excerpt from CLASS CLOWNS: HOW THE SMARTEST INVESTORS LOST BILLIONS IN EDUCATION, by Jonathan A. Knee, originally published in EdSurge.
- [Why For-Profit Education Fails](https://cupblog.org/2016/12/22/why-for-profit-education-fails/) - Jonathan Knee, author of CLASS CLOWNS: HOW THE SMARTEST INVESTORS LOST BILLIONS IN EDUCATION, explains why for-profit education fails in The Atlantic.
- [Introducing Class Clowns](https://cupblog.org/2016/12/23/introducing-class-clowns/) - Read the introduction to CLASS CLOWNS: HOW THE SMARTEST INVESTORS LOST BILLIONS IN EDUCATION, by Jonathan Knee.
- [Book Excerpt! <i>Media U: How the Need to Win Audiences Has Shaped Higher Education</i>](https://cupblog.org/2018/09/13/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 again, the authors offer original insights and even reasons to hope for new directions in
- [Sophie Richardson on the Chinese Earthquake](https://cupblog.org/2010/04/15/sophie-richardson-on-the-chinese-earthquake/) - In her article How Not to Respond to an Earthquake, published on the Daily Beast, Sophie Richardson, author of China, Cambodia, and the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, looks at how the Chinese government could best respond to the recent earthquake in Qinghai Province. While Richardson notes that the latest earthquake will probably see a
- [Guobin Yang on China's School Killings](https://cupblog.org/2010/05/17/guobin-yang-on-chinas-school-killings/) - The recent and horrific attacks on young children in rural schools in China have left the Chinese government and a slew of experts searching for answers. The spate of attacks was recently a topic on the New York Times' Web feature Room for Debate. One of the people called upon to participate in the discussion
- [China's Nobel Prize Complex, Circa 1946 -- An Op-ed by Christopher Rea](https://cupblog.org/2010/12/13/chinas-nobel-prize-complex-circa-1946-an-op-ed-by-christopher-rea/) - In the Toronto Star, Christopher Rea the editor of Humans, Beasts, and Ghosts: Stories and Essays, by Qian Zhongshu, discusses prescient fictional works that speak to China's recent reaction to Liu Xiaobo's Nobel Prize. In the 1946 "Inspiration," Qian tells the story of a Chinese writer whose work is translated into Esperanto, so he can
- [Guobin Yang: On the Persistence of Online Activism in China](https://cupblog.org/2011/01/06/guobin-yang-on-the-persistence-of-online-activism-in-china/) - Tonight Guobin Yang, author of The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online will be part of a panel discussion on China's new media landscape at the Asia Society. The event coincides with the paperback edition of The Power of the Internet, which includes a new afterword describing new developments in online activism
- [Guobin Yang: China's Gradual Revolution](https://cupblog.org/2011/03/15/guobin-yang-chinas-gradual-revolution/) - Will China follow in the footsteps of the Arab world and witness an outbreak of protests? In a New York Times op-ed China's Gradual Revolution, Guobin Yang, author of The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online, argues that it is unlikely. China's government, unlike those of Egypt or Tunisia, is very savvy
- [James Millward on Being Blacklisted by the Chinese Government](https://cupblog.org/2011/08/30/james-millward-on-being-blacklisted-by-the-chinese-government/) - As reported in Bloomberg and The Washington Post, James Millward, author of Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang, was among the "Xin­jiang 13." The Xinjiang 13 are a group of scholars of China who were denied visas by the Chinese government after contributing to Xinjiang: China’s Muslim Borderland, a volume edited by Frederick Starr and
- [Interview with Lingzhen Wang, editor of Chinese Women's Cinema: Transnational Contexts](https://cupblog.org/2011/09/07/interview-with-lingzhen-wang-editor-of-chinese-womens-cinema-transnational-contexts/) - The following is an interview with Lingzhen Wang, author of Chinese Women’s Cinema: Transnational Contexts. Question: How influenced were Chinese women directors by the sexual revolution happening in the ’70s in the Western world? Lingzhen Wang: Not that much at the time because in Mainland China socialist ideology was prevalent from 1949 to the very
- [Guobin Yang: China’s Twitter Revolution is Slow in Coming](https://cupblog.org/2013/03/20/guobin-yang-chinas-twitter-revolution-is-slow-in-coming/) - In recent article in Scientific American, Guobin Yang, author of The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online, argues that twitter, microblogging, and other social media is changing China but doubts that radical political change will occur. Yang cites a recent incident in China where protesters in Guangzhou went online and into streets
- [Julia Lovell Discusses Zhu Wen with the Los Angeles Review of Books](https://cupblog.org/2013/07/25/julia-lovell-discusses-zhu-wen-with-the-los-angeles-review-of-books/) - There is certainly no shortage of writing about contemporary China by historians, journalists, and political scientists. While their work and analysis undoubtedly deepens our understanding of China, it is often left to fiction to fill in some of the gaps and provide a richer appreciation of the impact of the changes in contemporary China on
- [Interview with Richard J. Meyer, author of "Wang Renmei: The Wildcat of Shanghai"](https://cupblog.org/2013/11/05/interview-with-richard-j-meyer-author-of-wang-renmei-the-wildcat-of-shanghai/) - The following is an interview with Richard J. Meyer, author of Wang Renmei: The Wildcat of Shanghai. In the interview Meyer discusses Wang's onscreen career as well as her turbulent off-screen life and his own interest in Chinese film: Question: How did you get interested in Chinese silent films? Richard J. Meyer: I had the
- [Wang Renmei: The Wildcat of Shanghai](https://cupblog.org/2013/11/06/wang-renmei-the-wildcat-of-shanghai/) - Wang Renmei, the subject of our featured book this week, Wang Renmei: The Wildcat of Shanghai, was on the fast track to become one of China's leading film stars of the 1930s. Her career and life, however, fell prey to the changes in Chinese politics. First marginalized because of her communist leanings in the 1930s
- [Wang Renmei, The Wildcat of Shanghai in Photographs](https://cupblog.org/2013/11/07/wang-renmei-the-wildcat-of-shanghai-in-photographs/) - The following images are stills from the films of Wang Renmei, with commentary by Richard J. Meyer author of Wang Renmei: The Wildcat of Shanghai. Wang Renmei plays Black Clown, who is killed at the end of Soaring Aspirations. Her death inspires the villagers to fight to the bitter end. She is reunited with co-star
- [Wang Renmei and Mao Zedong](https://cupblog.org/2013/11/08/wang-renmei-and-mao-zedong/) - We conclude our week-long feature on Wang Renmei: The Wildcat of Shanghai , by Richard J. Meyer with a look not at her film career but her early days living in Hunan Province. Though she later suffered during the Cultural Revolution, as a young girl she spent time with none other than Mao Zedong, then
- [Drinking, Drinking Games, Drinking at Weddings, and Drinking at Funerals in China](https://cupblog.org/2013/12/04/drinking-drinking-games-drinking-at-weddings-and-drinking-at-funerals-in-china/) - In the chapter "Heavenly Dew" from The Land of the Five Flavors: A Cultural History of Chinese Cuisine, Thomas Hollmann examines the history of drink and alcohol in China. In the following excerpt he considers the popularity of drinking games and the symbolic role drinking has in various rites of passage, including weddings: Drinking contests
- [The Long History of the Noodle (plus a Dumpling recipe!) via The Land of the Five Flavors](https://cupblog.org/2013/12/05/the-long-history-of-the-noodle-plus-a-dumpling-recipe-via-the-land-of-the-five-flavors/) - As Thomas Hollmann suggests in his book The Land of the Five Flavors: A Cultural History of Chinese Cuisine, the noodle looms large in Chinese food. Below is an excerpt from the book in which he examines some of the basics of the long, glorious history of the Chinese noodle. Likewise, the dumpling and its
- [The Westernization of Chinese Food](https://cupblog.org/2013/12/06/the-westernization-of-chinese-food/) - In the epilogue to The Land of the Five Flavors: A Cultural History of Chinese Cuisine, Thomas Hollmann concludes with a look at the changes in Chinese food and eating habits. In the following excerpt he discusses the introduction of such Western staples as Coca-Cola and McDonald's to China: Mineral water, lemonade, and other fizzy
- [Political Philosophy and Real Politics: Part II of an interview with Albena Azmanova, author of “The Scandal of Reason”](https://cupblog.org/2012/04/03/political-philosophy-and-real-politics-an-interview-with-albena-azmanova-author-of-the-scandal-of-reason/) - "Preoccupation with economic redistribution, gender equality, cultural diversity, and action against sexual harassment appeared all too smug to me when set against the evils of life under political oppression and bankrupt economic systems" - Albena Azmanova Albena Azmanova is the author of The Scandal of Reason: A Critical Theory of Political Judgment. This post is
- [<i>Growing Up With I Spit On Your Grave:</i> A Documentary Telling of the Original Film 40 Years Later](https://cupblog.org/2019/04/25/growing-up-with-i-spit-on-your-grave-a-documentary-telling-of-the-original-film-40-years-later/) - “Maguire comes across as bright and personable, clever and focused without ever wallowing in jargon, and perhaps most importantly of all, aware that ISOYG is not a perfect film whilst still eminently worth of a closer look. A well-written piece of work, the book could easily reward fans as much as students and it’s well
- [Brush up on James Joyce with Marilyn Monroe.](https://cupblog.org/2010/06/14/brush-up-on-james-joyce-with-marilyn-monroe/) - With Bloomsday, just a couple of days away, there's not much time to brush up on your Joyce. However, a good place to start is James Joyce: A Critical Guide, by Lee Spinks, whose cover includes this image of Marilyn Monroe reading Ulysses. Spinks offers a comprehensive account of Joyce's work and provides a detailed
- [Sylvia Beach Week!](https://cupblog.org/2010/07/22/sylvia-beach-week/) - The always interesting and entertaining blog, Fernham has dedicated the week to Sylvia Beach. In conjunction with its celebration of legendary bookstore owner and publisher, Fernham will be featuring The Letters of Sylvia Beach, edited by Keri Walsh. Yesterday, Walsh contributed a post describing the Adrienne Monnier, Sylvia Beach's partner in business and life. Here
- [(Sylvia) Beach reading continued](https://cupblog.org/2010/07/23/sylvia-beach-reading-continued/) - We continue our focus on Fernham's focus on Sylvia Beach and The Letters of Sylvia Beach with an excerpt from the second part of what will be a four-part interview between Anne Fernald, who writes the blog, and Keri Walsh, editor of The Letters. (Here are part one and part two.) In the interview, Fernald
- [Publishers Weekly Reviews "Unlikely Collaboration: Gertrude Stein, Bernard Fay, and the Vichy Dilemma"](https://cupblog.org/2011/07/25/publishers-weekly-reviews-unlikely-collaboration-gertrude-stein-bernard-fay-and-the-vichy-dilemma/) - Gertrude Stein has been making a comeback of sorts. She appears in Woody Allen's new movie Midnight in Paris has spurred sales of her books. Her children's book To Do: A Book of Alphabets and Birthdays was also recently published. Offering a different and more complicated picture of Stein emerges in the forthcoming Unlikely Collaboration:
- [Barbara Will on Unlikely Collaboration: Gertrude Stein, Bernard Fay, and the Vichy Dilemma](https://cupblog.org/2011/10/28/barbara-will-on-unlikely-collaboration-gertrude-stein-bernard-fay-and-the-vichy-dilemma/) - "My hope with this book is, first, to resituate Stein where I think she belongs—in the latter camp of reactionary modernism. It simplifies her work and falsifies her life to misread both in the service of our own progressive agendas. The dilemmas of her life, and the realities of her actions and convictions, require careful
- [Gertrude Stein, Alan Dershowitz, Barbara Will, and the Controversy at the Met](https://cupblog.org/2012/05/17/gertrude-stein-alan-dershowitz-barbara-will-and-the-controversy-at-the-met/) - The recent opening of The Steins Collect at the Metropolitan Museum of Art has ignited a controversyregarding Gertrude Stein's fascist past. At the center of this debate is Barbara Will's recent book Unlikely Collaboration: Gertrude Stein, Bernard Faÿ, and the Vichy Dilemma. As Will's book reveals, Stein, herself a Jew, supported various Vichy policies and
- [New Book Tuesday: Modernism at the Barricades and International Poetry](https://cupblog.org/2012/06/19/new-book-tuesday-modernism-at-the-barricades-and-international-poetry/) - Our weekly list of new titles includes Stephen Bronner's reinterpretation of the cultural politics of modernism and several new titles from the International Poetry Nights in Hong Kong poetry series: Modernism at the Barricades: Aesthetics, Politics, Utopia Stephen Bronner To Read: To Love Tomaž Šalamun Short Prayer Vivek Narayanan Paper Dreams Arkadii Dragomoshchenko Blue Tile
- [Stephen Bronner, Author of Modernism at the Barricades, Takes The Page 99 Test](https://cupblog.org/2012/08/01/stephen-bronner-author-of-modernism-at-the-barricades-takes-the-page-99-test/) - Recently, Stephen Bronner author of Modernism at the Barricades: Aesthetics, Politics, Utopia, took The Page 99 Test. The test, thought up by Ford Maddox Ford, posits that the 99th page of a book determines the quality of a book. Bronner expresses some skepticism about this adage but then grudgingly admits that the "page is somewhat
- [James Joyce and His Publisher, Sylvia Beach -- Keri Walsh](https://cupblog.org/2015/06/15/james-joyce-and-his-publisher-sylvia-beach-keri-walsh/) - In a recent article in The Irish Times, Keri Walsh, editor of The Letters of Sylvia Beach, examines the difficult relationship between Beach and James Joyce. Beach, of course, was the publisher of Ulysses but became estranged from Joyce after he sold the rights to the novel to Random House. Beach's difficulties were exacerbated as
- [With and After Orientalism -- Carrie Preston](https://cupblog.org/2016/09/08/with-and-after-orientalism-carrie-preston/) - Carrie Preston, author of "Learning to Kneel," on drawing on other cultures without appropriation.
- [Carrie Preston On Being a Scholar-Teacher-Student](https://cupblog.org/2016/09/09/carrie-preston-on-being-a-scholar-teacher-student/) - Carrie Preston, author of "Learning to Kneel," on how scholarly research learning Noh influenced her ideas about teaching.
- [Interview with Donal Harris, author of "On Company Time"](https://cupblog.org/2016/11/10/interview-with-donal-harris-author-of-on-company-time/) - Read an interview with Donal Harris, author of ON COMPANY TIME: AMERICAN MODERNISM IN THE BIG MAGAZINES, in which Harris explains "big magazines," the relationship between journalism and literature, and his interest in the topic.
- [An Interview with Carrie Preston, author of "Learning to Kneel"](https://cupblog.org/2016/09/07/an-interview-with-carrie-preston-author-of-learning-to-kneel/) - Carrie Preston discusses how Noh training shaped her book, the challenges of cross-cultural scholarship, and how modernists drew on Japanese traditions in their work.
- [Do You Know Graphic Women? -- A Quiz Based on "Graphic Women," by Hillary Chute](https://cupblog.org/2010/10/26/do-you-know-graphic-women-a-quiz-based-on-graphic-women-by-hillary-chute/) - In Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics, author Hillary L. Chute explores the visual and verbal techniques of five acclaimed female cartoonists: Marjane Satrapi, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Alison Bechdel, Phoebe Gloeckner, and Lynda Barry. Think you know your graphic women? Put your knowledge to the test with our quiz based on the book. Click here
- [Hillary Chute and Lynda Barry](https://cupblog.org/2011/04/21/hillary-chute-and-lynda-barry/) - Thanks to Lynda Barry for holding up Hillary Chute's book, Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics. The photo was taken shortly before Hillary Chute moderated a conversation on comics with Barry and Alison Bechdel at a recent event at Wellesley College. For those who did not make the talk, you can read Hillary Chute's
- [Hillary Chute at the Brooklyn Book Festival](https://cupblog.org/2011/09/12/hillary-chute-at-the-brooklyn-book-festival/) - Four different Columbia University Press authors will be participating in the upcoming Brooklyn Book Festival on Sunday, September 18th. The festival has become one of the major literary events in New York City and one of the largest of its kind in the United States. This week we'll feature the authors and their panels. First
- [William Logan Poetry Criticism Quiz](https://cupblog.org/2013/04/12/william-logan-poetry-criticism-quiz/) - Take our quiz on William Logan's poetry criticism for a chance to win FREE copies of William Logan's Our Savage Age and The Undiscovered Country!
- [William Logan Poetry Criticism Quiz Answers](https://cupblog.org/2013/04/16/william-logan-poetry-criticism-quiz-answers/) - Columbia University Press has had the privilege of publishing two volumes of critical essays by the poet and critic William Logan, Our Savage Age: Poetry and the Civil Tongue and The Undiscovered Country: Poetry in the Age of Tin. As a critic, Logan is perhaps best known for his sharp wit and his willingness to
- [Q&A: Patrick Corrigan on <i>The Stigma Effect</i>](https://cupblog.org/2018/12/11/qa-patrick-corrigan-on-the-stigma-effect/) - “How do we, as a society, reduce stigmatization of the seriously mentally ill? As Patrick Corrigan persuasively argues in this thorough inquiry into the subject, we should listen to their stories, for then we will discover fellow human beings, and not the “other” we fear.” ~ Robert Whitaker, author of Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic
- [Stephen Starr - Syria can find peace if its minorities seek common ground](https://cupblog.org/2012/07/26/stephen-starr-syria-can-find-peace-if-its-minorities-seek-common-ground/) - Stephen Starr explains how the Assad Regime in Syria brought about their own downfall, and discusses problems that will trouble a new Syrian government.
- [Farzana Shaikh: Will Pakistan finally buckle?](https://cupblog.org/2009/10/19/farzana-shaikh-will-pakistan-finally-buckle/) - In an op-ed in yesterday's Independent, Farzana Shaikh, author of Making Sense of Pakistan, begins her analysis of recent events in the country by writing, Will Pakistan finally buckle? After a week that has witnessed some of the boldest and deadliest militant attacks against the Pakistani state and the headquarters of its most potent institution,
- [A new look at the confinement of Japanese-Americans](https://cupblog.org/2009/11/10/a-new-look-at-the-confinement-of-japanese-americans/) - In a recent feature on Rorotoko, Greg Robinson, author of A Tragedy of Democracy: Japanese Confinement of America, discusses his new book and how it presents the existence of Japanese internment camps in a more expansive light. Robinson's new research reveals the transnational character of the policy—Canada and nations in Latin America also had camps
- [Animal, Vegetable, Miserable -- An op-ed by Gary Steiner](https://cupblog.org/2009/11/30/animal-vegetable-miserable-an-op-ed-by-gary-steiner/) - Now that the Thanksgiving meal has been eaten and people have moved on to Black Friday or Cyber Monday, we thought it appropriate to mention Gary Steiner's much-discussed New York Times op-ed from last week, Animal, Vegetable, Miserable. In the essay, Gary Steiner, who is the author of Animals and the Moral Community: Mental Life,
- [James Igoe Walsh takes the page 99 test](https://cupblog.org/2009/12/07/james-igoe-walsh-takes-the-page-99-test/) - Taking Ford Maddox Ford’s suggestion to heart ("Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you”), The Page 99 Test asks authors to focus in on this particular page. Recently Kelly Oliver took the test and now James Igoe Walsh, author of The International Politics
- [Steven Cohen on weatherizing New York City](https://cupblog.org/2009/12/09/steven-cohen-on-weatherizing-new-york-city/) - "In the end, all the forward-looking policies articulated in Washington and in Copenhagen will have meaning only when a landlord in New York City decides to sign up a contractor this summer to weatherize his pre-World War II apartment building."— Steven Cohen, writing on State of the Planet In light of the Copenhagen Climate Conference,
- [Sibyl Schwarzenbach on Huffington Post and Rorotoko](https://cupblog.org/2009/12/14/sybil-schwarzenbach-on-huffington-post-and-rorotoko/) - Sibyl Schwarzenbach, author of the just-published On Civic Friendship: Including Women in the State, has recently contributed pieces to both Rorotoko and The Huffington Post. In "A Failure of Civic Friendship," Schwarzenbach argues that the United States and its political culture lacks a sense of "civic friendship." This failure is reflected by the fact that
- [Believing in Tiger Woods -- Mark Hulsether in Religion Dispatches](https://cupblog.org/2010/02/24/believing-in-tiger-woods-mark-hulsether-in-religion-dispatches/) - With seemingly everyone in the world weighing in on Tiger Woods, we thought we would add a new perspective via Mark Hulsether, professor of Religious Studies and American Studies at the University of Tennessee and author of Religion, Culture and Politics in the Twentieth Century United States. In a piece recently written for Religion Dispatches,
- [Avner Cohen on Iran, the bomb, and its threat to Israel](https://cupblog.org/2010/02/26/avner-cohen-on-iran-the-bomb-and-its-threat-to-israel/) - "What if our leaders and pundits had reacted to the Iranian nuclear program in a completely different way than they actually have?"—Avner Cohen, from a recent op-ed in Haaretz In a recent op-ed, Iranian threat to destroy Israel doesn't hold up , Avner Cohen, author of the forthcoming The Worst-Kept Secret: Israel’s Bargain with the
- [Is film criticsm dead? Thomas Doherty weighs in.](https://cupblog.org/2010/03/02/is-film-criticsm-dead-thomas-doherty/) - "'It sucks,' decrees an Internet movie critic, sharing the most common aesthetic reaction in contemporary film criticism. In the viral salon of bloggers and chat-roomers, the finely tuned turns of phrase crafted by an earlier generation of sharp-eyed cinema scribes have been winnowed to a curt kiss-off. In cyberspace everyone can hear you scream. Just
- [Roger Hardy on Islamism and why the West gets it wrong](https://cupblog.org/2010/03/22/roger-hardy-on-islamism-and-why-the-west-gets-it-wrong/) - In a recent editorial in the Guardian, Roger Hardy, author of The Muslim Revolt: A Journey Through Political Islam, argues that the West has simplified and misunderstood the nature and motivations of Islamism. Hardy's editorial and book are based on his more than thirty years of travel in the Muslim world, mostly as a BBC
- [Kenneth Posner on Hunting for the next "Black Swan"](https://cupblog.org/2010/03/29/kenneth-posner-on-hunting-for-the-next-black-swan/) - The Black Swan Theory is used to explain hard-to-predict, rare events, but how should investors cope, react, and even try to anticipate such events? In an op-ed in Institutional Investor, Ken Posner, author of Stalking the Black Swan: Research and Decision Making in a World of Extreme Volatility, argues that "investors who want to avoid
- [Alexis Dudden: Japan, Korea, Abductions, and a Tangled History](https://cupblog.org/2010/04/06/alexis-dudden-japan-korea-abductions-and-a-tangled-history/) - As Alexis Dudden points out in her fascinating article in Japan Focus, 2010 marks the 100th anniversary of Japan's takeover of Korea. Dudden, author of Troubled Apologies Among Japan, Korea, and the United States, reveals the ways in which this event and the history of the complicated relationship between Japan and Korea continues to play
- [Guobin Yang on the China-Google Spat](https://cupblog.org/2010/04/09/guobin-yang-on-the-china-google-spat/) - In an interesting article for Yale Global, Guobin Yang, author of The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online, downplays some of the hyperbole that has been used to characterize the dispute between Google and China. Yang argues that what has been most affected has been China's image and not so much Chinese
- [Edward Hess on false gods and Wall Street's Future](https://cupblog.org/2010/05/04/edward-hess-on-false-gods-and-wall-streets-future/) - "Bankers are not theologians (and neither, it should be said, are business professors), but as new revelations continue to be made about the devastating effects of dubious instruments concocted by financial alchemists, the fair question that needs to be asked is: What is the god worshiped by the high priests of Wall Street?"—Edward Hess In
- [How to make peace with Iran -- Arshin Adib-Moghaddam](https://cupblog.org/2010/05/20/how-to-make-peace-with-iran-arshin-adib-moghaddam/) - Earlier this week Arshin Adib-Moghaddam, author of Iran in World Politics: The Question of the Islamic Republic and the forthcoming A Metahistory of the Clash of Civilisations: Us and Them Beyond Orientalism, wrote an op-ed in Open Democracy calling for the United States and Europe to adopt a policy of "positive diplomacy" with Iran. He
- [Is is too big to fail? Andrew Lakoff on our energy production system](https://cupblog.org/2010/05/24/is-is-too-big-to-fail-andrew-lakoff-on-our-energy-production-system/) - In a piece for the Huffington Post, Andrew Lakoff, editor of the just published Disaster and the Politics of Intervention, examines what if anything can be learned from the debate over financial reform as attention turns to the regulatory reforms necessary to avoid the next environmental catastrophe. Lakoff argues that similar to the debate regarding
- [Kenneth Posner on how to stop the next banking crisis](https://cupblog.org/2010/05/26/kenneth-posner-on-how-to-stop-the-next-banking-crisis/) - In an op-ed written for Fortune, Kenneth Posner, author of the recently published Stalking the Black Swan: Research and Decision Making in a World of Extreme Volatility, provides a solution for stopping the next banking crisis. In light of the recent financial reform bill passed in the U.S. congress and as G-20 representatives get ready
- [Kenneth Posner: Planning for a World of Black Swans](https://cupblog.org/2010/06/03/kenneth-posner-planning-for-a-world-of-black-swans/) - Unpredictable events or "Black Swans," a term popularized by Nassim Taleb, are a facet of the twenty-first century economy and we should learn how to live with it rather than wish them away. In a recent essay for the Huffington Post, Kenneth Posner, author of Stalking the Black Swan: Research and Decision Making in a
- [Vicken Cheterian on the crisis in Kyrgyzstan](https://cupblog.org/2010/06/17/vicken-cheterian-on-the-crisis-in-kyrgyzstan/) - "For if Kyrgyzstan fails as a state, and inter-ethnic violence ... is not contained, the resulting security vacuum in Kyrgyzstan could threaten the fragile stability of central Asia as a whole." — Vicken Cheterian, Open Democracy In an essay entitled Kyrgyzstan failing, an arc in crisis published in Open Democracy, Vicken Cheterian, author of War
- [Laura Katz Olson -- Can the Expansion of Medicaid Coverage Fulfill the Promise of Health Care Reform?](https://cupblog.org/2010/06/21/laura-katz-olson-can-the-expansion-of-medicaid-coverage-fulfill-the-promise-of-health-care-reform/) - One of the key components in the recent health care reform bill was the extension of medicaid to cover low-income individuals. But is this the best way to provide health care? This is the question Laura Katz Olson, author of The Politics of Medicaid, examines in a recent op-ed she wrote for Doctor Pundit. Olson
- [Sam Roberts on John V. Lindsay as "America's Mayor"](https://cupblog.org/2010/07/01/sam-roberts-on-john-v-lindsay-as-americas-mayor/) - When we were deciding on the title for our book on John Lindsay, co-published with the Museum of the City of New York, we were concerned that the title America's Mayor, might cause some confusion. After all, many now think of Rudy Giuliani as "America's Mayor" after his handling of the city after 9/11. However,
- [Siddharth Kara on the Trail of Human Trafficking](https://cupblog.org/2010/07/20/siddharth-kara-on-the-trail-of-human-trafficking/) - Siddharth Kara, author of Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery (now available in paper), has begun a weekly column for CNN.com that will document his trip around South Asia, looking at issues of forced labor, trafficking, and child bondage. His trip to South Asia is one of three he will be taking over
- [Peter Maguire on Cambodia's Troubled Tribunal](https://cupblog.org/2010/07/29/peter-maguire-on-cambodias-troubled-tribunal/) - In yesterday's New York Times, Peter Maguire, author of Facing Death in Cambodia, examines the upcoming war crimes trials of four former Khmer Rouge political leaders. Maguire argues that given that these figures only gave orders and did not carry them out it will be more difficult for the court, the Extraordinary Chambers in the
- [Christopher Davidson on Blackberry Censorship in the UAE](https://cupblog.org/2010/08/09/christopher-davidson-on-blackberry-censorship-in-the-uae/) - Christopher Davidson, whose book Dubai: The Vulnerability of Success was just reviewed in the New York Review of Books, recently contributed to the Index on Censorship on the UAE's recent decision to ban Blackberry use. Davidson argues that the UAE's decision is motivated by mounting political opposition in the country. In recent months hundreds of
- [Avner Cohen -- Bringing Israel's Bomb Out of the Basement](https://cupblog.org/2010/08/26/avner-cohen-bringing-israels-bomb-out-of-the-basement/) - In an op-ed from yesterday's New York Times Avner Cohen, author of the forthcoming book The Worst-Kept Secret: Israel's Bargain with the Bomb, and Marvin Miller argue for Israel to end its policy of opacity regarding its possession of nuclear weapons. As Cohen and Miller explain, "Israel neither affirms nor denies its possession of nuclear
- [Edward Hess offers some stark lessons from the Dell fraud case](https://cupblog.org/2010/10/17/edward-hess-offers-some-stark-lessons-from-the-dell-fraud-case/) - In an op-ed in Forbes, Edward Hess, author of Smart Growth: Building an Enduring Business by Managing the Risks of Growth, examines the recent agreement made between Dell and the SEC. For their failure to disclose information and their use of fraudulent account, the company was forced to pay $100 million and Michael Dell himself
- [Avner Cohen on Israel Dostrovsky, "last of the nuclear mohicans"](https://cupblog.org/2010/10/29/avner-cohen-on-isarel-dostrovsky-last-of-the-nuclear-mohicans/) - In an op-ed published in Ha'aretz, Avner Cohen, author of The Worst-Kept Secret, remembers Israel Dostrovsky, one of the key figures in the development of Israel's nuclear program, who recently passed away. Cohen views Dostrovsky, who played various roles in Israel's defense program from the very beginning, as embodying "Ben-Gurion's ideal of a Zionist scientist—a
- [Obama's new bid to engage the Muslim World -- A Post by Roger Hardy](https://cupblog.org/2010/11/10/obamas-new-bid-to-engage-the-muslim-world-a-post-by-roger-hardy/) - In light of Obama's trip to Indonesia, Roger Hardy, author of The Muslim Revolt: A Journey Through Political Islam, looks at the administration's attempts to wins the "hearts and minds" of the Muslim world in an op-ed on the BBC. Of course, one of the signature moments in the first months of Obama's presidency was
- [Gary Francione on the Abolitionist Approach](https://cupblog.org/2010/11/17/gary-francione-on-the-abolitionist-approach/) - On his blog Animal Rights: The Abolitionist Approach, Gary Francione, most recently the author of The Animal Rights Debate: Abolition or Regulation, writes a series of commentaries/podcasts. In the most recent installment, “The Animal Rights Debate,” the Abolitionist Approach Discussion Forum, and a Response to Nicolette Hahn Niman, Francione discusses among other issues Niman's recent
- [Qian Zhongshu -- The Best Chinese Writer You've Never Heard of](https://cupblog.org/2010/11/22/qian-zhongshu-the-best-chinese-writer-youve-never-heard-of/) - In an essay for The China Beat, Christopher Rea, assistant professor of modern Chinese literature at the University of British Columbia, calls Qian Zhongshu, "the best Chinese writers you've never heard of." So who was Qian? Qian is perhaps best known as the author of the novel Fortress Besieged but as the forthcoming collection Humans,
- [The Afterlife of Sayyid Qutb](https://cupblog.org/2010/12/16/the-afterlife-of-sayyid-qutb/) - Marc Lynch recently praised John Calvert's Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism, calling it one of the best books of the year in The Atlantic and Foreign Policy. John Calvert himself recently contributed an essay to the Foreign Policy site, The afterlife of Sayyid Qutb. In it, Calvert discusses the way that the
- [J. P. Singh Takes The Page 99 Test](https://cupblog.org/2011/01/05/j-p-singh-takes-the-page-99-test/) - J. P. Singh, author of Globalized Arts: The Entertainment Economy and Cultural Identity, recently took the page 99 test as a way to describe some of the central themes of his book. Here are some excerpts from his essay for The Page 99 Test blog: Globalized Arts displays policies that give people a cultural voice,
- [Olivier Roy on Egypt and the New Arab World](https://cupblog.org/2011/02/18/olivier-roy-on-egypt-and-the-new-arab-world/) - Olivier Roy, most recently the author of Holy Ignorance: When Religion and Culture Part Ways, has written two pieces on events in the Arab world that have been widely cited and offer a counter-perspective to Western coverage. In his piece in the New Statesman (a very similar essay was written in French, published in Le
- [Ed Hess on the Business Revolution That's Destroying the American Dream](https://cupblog.org/2011/03/01/ed-hess-on-the-business-revolution-thats-destroying-the-american-dream/) - "Over the last 25 years American capitalism has become financialism, which is primarily transactional, unrestrained greed."--Ed Hess, Forbes The capitalism envisaged by Adam Smith has been replaced by what Ed Hess, author of Smart Growth: Building an Enduring Business by Managing the Risks of Growth, terms "financialism." As he explains in a recent op-ed in
- [Erica Chenoweth on the Nonviolent Resistance in the Arab Revolts](https://cupblog.org/2011/03/10/erica-chenoweth-on-the-nonviolent-resistance-in-the-arab-revolts/) - "Nonviolent resistance is about finding and exploiting points of leverage in one’s own society. Every dictatorship has vulnerabilities, and every society can find them."—Erica Chenoweth Erica Chenoweth, co-author of the forthcoming Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict, argues in today's New York Times that "nonviolent resistance is much more likely to
- [Is the War in Afghanistan Necessary? -- Talal Asad](https://cupblog.org/2011/03/11/is-the-war-in-afghanistan-necessary-talal-asad/) - Talal Asad, author of On Suicide Bombing, argues in an essay for Religion and Ethics, argues that the war in Afghanistan was not necessary. In examining the rationale for the war, Asad demonstrates the various ways that through rhetoric and legal arguments the war has been justified to the international community and the U.S. public.
- [Guobin Yang on Ai Weiwei](https://cupblog.org/2011/04/13/guobin-yang-on-ai-weiwei/) - Guobin Yang, author of The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online, was part of a discussion on the New York Times website about the recent imprisonment of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei (his sculpture is pictured above). In his piece, "Moving Past Manifestos," Guobin Yang discusses the ways in which Ai Weiwei represents
- [Arshin Adib-Moghaddam on The Metahistory of the Clash of Civilizations](https://cupblog.org/2011/04/28/arshin-adib-moghaddam-on-the-metahistory-of-the-clash-of-civilizations/) - Arshin Adib-Moghaddam, author of The Metahistory of the Clash of Civilizations: Us and Them Beyond Orientalism recently gave a fascinating interview about his book at e-IR as well as offering commentary about the situation in Bahrain for CNN. In his interview, Adib-Moghaddam explores why the idea of a clash idea is such a part of
- [The Burial of Osama Bin Laden -- an Op-Ed by Leor Halevi](https://cupblog.org/2011/05/09/the-burial-of-osama-bin-laden-an-op-ed-by-leor-halevi/) - Barack Obama and the U.S. government made it clear that Osama bin Laden was buried in strict accordance with Muslim law. But how accurate is this statement? In a recent op-ed in the New York Times, Leor Halevi, author of Muhammad's Grave: Death Rites and the Making of Islamic Society suggests that the United States
- [Geoffrey Kabat on Cancer and Cellphones](https://cupblog.org/2011/06/09/geoffrey-kabat-on-caner-and-cellphones/) - The following post by Geoffrey Kabat, author of Hyping Health Risks: Environmental Hazards in Daily Life and the Science of Epidemiology discusses the recent World Health Organization's report on cellphone use and its possible link to cancer. Kabat questions some of the conclusions made in the report and the problem of labeling something a "possible
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