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Columbia University Press advances knowledge about our world through essential writing and research focusing on the global, the urban, and the contemporary. For more than 125 years, our widely reviewed and award-winning books have brought new ideas and foundational understanding to students, academics across different disciplines, policy makers, and general readers around the world. Through our pu

blishing program, we embody our parent institution's educational and research mission as well as its international reputation.

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New from Sundial House! These stories, by Latin American and Iberian authors, explore the complexities of the human heart, resilience, community, and displacement. https://buff.ly/3EjWa1p

Marília Arnaud 's THE BOOK OF AFFECTS is a collection of short stories devoted to uncovering the moving, complex, and often mystifying workings of the human heart.

Luisa Etxenike's CROSSING WATERS depicts a Colombian woman and her son finding their way in the Spanish Basque country.

Verónica Ge**er Bicecci's THE COMPANY uses mixed media to tell the story of a mining company’s arrival in a small town and the terrorizing of its inhabitants.

Join author Rajbir Singh Judge, Randeep Singh Hothi, and Munis D. Faruqui for a conversation about PROPHETIC MAHARAJA on...
24/01/2025

Join author Rajbir Singh Judge, Randeep Singh Hothi, and Munis D. Faruqui for a conversation about PROPHETIC MAHARAJA on Facebook live Tuesday, February 11 from 5 PM to 6: PM. Bringing together Sikh tradition, psychoanalysis, and postcolonial thought, this book provides bracing insights into concepts of sovereignty and the writing of history. https://buff.ly/40Ljk9S

"Situating prepping at the centre of US life through the process of bunkerisation allows us to shift from how or why Ame...
24/01/2025

"Situating prepping at the centre of US life through the process of bunkerisation allows us to shift from how or why Americans prep to analysing how we ended up producing the prepping American who shapes everyday life."—Robert E. Kirsch and Emily Ray, coauthors of BE PREPARED https://buff.ly/40aFsJ6 Psyche

Millions are preparing for doomsday, not together, but by closing the hatch. It’s a logical response to a hollowed-out state

In this Off The Page podcast episode, host Melek Firat Altay and author Pierre Sokolsky discuss THE CLOCK IN THE SUN. ht...
24/01/2025

In this Off The Page podcast episode, host Melek Firat Altay and author Pierre Sokolsky discuss THE CLOCK IN THE SUN. https://buff.ly/4h3TDXH New Books Network

We are pleased to announce that Carolyn Laubender's THE POLITICAL CLINIC is the Winner of the 2025 Book Prize of the Ame...
24/01/2025

We are pleased to announce that Carolyn Laubender's THE POLITICAL CLINIC is the Winner of the 2025 Book Prize of the American Psychoanalytic Association. https://buff.ly/3Wx8aTD American Psychoanalytic Association University of Essex Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies

"Visser's book offers a rich comparison of ecoliterary works by Indigenous, Indigene and ethnic majority writers in Chin...
23/01/2025

"Visser's book offers a rich comparison of ecoliterary works by Indigenous, Indigene and ethnic majority writers in China and Taiwan, which brings to life their visions for how to relate to their unknown ecological futures and the nation-states in which they live."—Katherine Swancutt on QUESTIONING BORDERS, The China Quarterly. Cambridge Core https://buff.ly/4hrPSex

Questioning Borders: Ecoliteratures of China and Taiwan Robin Visser. New York: Columbia University Press, 2023. 352 pp. $35.00; £30.00 (pbk). ISBN 9780231199810 - Volume 260

Now available! DISCOVERED BUT FORGOTTEN is a pioneering examination of China’s relations with the Maldives and Sino-Indi...
23/01/2025

Now available! DISCOVERED BUT FORGOTTEN is a pioneering examination of China’s relations with the Maldives and Sino-Indian Ocean interactions, offering new ways to understand Chinese maritime exploration and the global history of the Indian Ocean. https://buff.ly/4hrRvJ6

"It would serve the members of the incoming American Administration, who have thus far shown little more than naivete in...
23/01/2025

"It would serve the members of the incoming American Administration, who have thus far shown little more than naivete in their perception of the underlying causes of and implications for the Russia-Ukraine conflict, well to read this book."—Bill Rapp, The Cipher Brief https://buff.ly/4h847oU

Bill Rapp reviews Putin’s Revenge: Why Russia Invaded Ukraine by Lucian Kim, which explores the mind of Putin and his perspective on Ukraine.

Seen at Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore in Berkeley, CA.PROUST, A JEWISH WAY brings to light the vanished world of Proust’s fi...
23/01/2025

Seen at Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore in Berkeley, CA.

PROUST, A JEWISH WAY brings to light the vanished world of Proust’s first Jewish readers and shows how it can illuminate our reading of the great novelist today.

POP YOKAI is a delightful journey into Japanese popular culture through yokai art.

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We are honored that Black Perspectives has listed SCATTERED AND FUGITIVE THINGS  on their list of The Best Black History...
23/01/2025

We are honored that Black Perspectives has listed SCATTERED AND FUGITIVE THINGS on their list of The Best Black History Books of 2024. Offering new ways to understand Black intellectual and literary history, this book reveals Black collecting as a radical critical tradition that reimagines past, present, and future. https://buff.ly/4aptJLu African American Intellectual History Society

We are pleased to release this year's AAIHS list of the best books published in 2024! Check out this extraordinary list of great books from 2024 that offer varied historical perspectives on the Black experience in the United States and across the globe. From books on Black working class women and re

"Brainard is as affectionate in his letters as he was in the poems he published in his lifetime."—Andrew Durbin, Frieze ...
22/01/2025

"Brainard is as affectionate in his letters as he was in the poems he published in his lifetime."—Andrew Durbin, Frieze on LOVE, JOE. https://buff.ly/4gXYidM

Other highlights include BBC’s ‘The Traitors’ and a concert by artist band ExOrg at London’s Café OTO

"We know that 40% of the world's estimated 7,000 thousand languages are in danger of disappearing by the end of the cent...
22/01/2025

"We know that 40% of the world's estimated 7,000 thousand languages are in danger of disappearing by the end of the century."—Professor Lydia Liu (Columbia University) and co-editor of GLOBAL LANGUAGE JUSTICE https://buff.ly/42h2ssB NPR Columbia University

By the end of the century, more than 40% of the world's estimated 7,000 languages are in danger of disappearing. Those include indigenous languages in the Amazon. The United Nations also estimates that an Indigenous language dies every two weeks. Today, we focus on two endangered languages spoken in...

22/01/2025

Kirkus Reviews calls Emily Hodgson Anderson's SHADOW WORK, "A graceful literary memoir." https://buff.ly/4hlgrC7

Reflections on a life of reading.

We are pleased to announce that Beatrice Marovich's SISTER DEATH is the Winner of the 2024 Bela Kornitzer Alumni Award f...
22/01/2025

We are pleased to announce that Beatrice Marovich's SISTER DEATH is the Winner of the 2024 Bela Kornitzer Alumni Award from Drew University's Library and Special Collections. Eloquent and approachable, this book deftly integrates the insights of a number of disciplines to provide a profound reconsideration of the relations between life and death. https://buff.ly/4gThjhC Drew University

Seen on the shelf at Small World Books. https://buff.ly/4hmyoA5 RUST BELT UNION BLUES sheds new light on why so many uni...
22/01/2025

Seen on the shelf at Small World Books. https://buff.ly/4hmyoA5

RUST BELT UNION BLUES sheds new light on why so many union members have dramatically changed their party politics.

GEORGE CUKOR'S PEOPLE provides insightful and revealing essayistic portraits of Cukor’s actors in their most memorable roles.

THE OCTOPUS IN THE PARKING GARAGE empowers readers to face the climate crisis and shows what we can do to adapt and thrive.

ERIS gems make available in the form of beautifully produced saddle-stitched booklets a series of outstanding short works of fiction and non-fiction.

22/01/2025

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