November 12, 2025

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.

November 10, 2025

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.

November 5, 2025

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.

October 2, 2025

Textual Life, Institutional Death

On Gaza Solidarity, Columbia University, and the Crisis of the Humanities

Wendell Marsh

Wendell Marsh reflects on how his book Textual Life emerged from critical academic spaces now under siege, defending humanities scholarship.

September 23, 2025

Jie-Hyun Lim on Victimhood Nationalism

Jie-Hyun Lim argues that nations weaponize their ancestral suffering to claim moral superiority, fueling today’s conflicts through “memory wars.”

September 11, 2025

Stephan Kieninger on Securing Peace in Europe

Stephan Kieninger explains how his book, Securing Peace in Europe, contradicts Putin’s claims that the West excluded Russia after the Cold War.

August 22, 2025

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.

August 14, 2025

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.

July 31, 2025

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.

July 10, 2025

Why Research Is Not Enough

Philip N. Cohen

Philip N. Cohen, author of Citizen Scholar, explores how social scientists can engage with the public, emphasizing the need for transparency and local relevance.

June 16, 2025

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.

June 11, 2025

Attacks on Science Put Same-Sex Marriage, and All Our Rights, in Danger

Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer

Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer discusses how attacks on science threaten same-sex marriage rights and highlights the crucial role experts play in shaping policy.