April 22, 2008

Earth Day 2008

Earth Day, founded in 1970 to raise awareness about the nation’s environmental concerns, is today, and we’d like to take this opportunity to highlight some of our recent ecology and environmental sciences titles. American Environmental History: An Introduction by Carolyn...

April 22, 2008

Tough Liberal: Albert Shanker and the Battles Over Schools, Unions, Race, and Democracy

Richard Kahlenberg’s biography of Albert Shanker the former head of the American Federation of Teachers was recently lauded in two different publications. In the New Republic, John Judis cited Tough Liberal: Albert Shanker and the Battles Over Schools, Unions, Race,...

April 21, 2008

The Green Press Initiative

In honor of Earth Day tomorrow, we want to highlight The Green Press Initiative, which is an organization dedicated to helping the book and newspaper industries understand their environmental impact. Columbia University Press joined the Green Press Initiative in April...

April 21, 2008

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:...

April 18, 2008

Fear of Freedom by Carlo Levi: An Event at the Italian Academy

While in exile during the Second World War, Carlo Levi, the famous painter, writer, and antifascist Italian from a Jewish family wrote the canonical essay “Of Fear and Freedom,” which was later published by Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux and in...

April 18, 2008

A Response to Stephen Burt's "Against Argument" from The Valve

John Holbo of the always rewarding and interesting literary criticism site, The Valve has written on Stephen Burt’s post “Against Argument”.

April 18, 2008

Review of One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each

Complete Review has a review of One Hundred Poems, One Poems Each: A Translation of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu translated by Peter McMillan and with a foreword by Donald Keene. The reviewer writes, “McMillan has none a nice job here....

April 17, 2008

Against Argument: A Posting from Stephen Burt

Stephen Burt teaches in the English Department at Harvard University. He is most recently the author of The Forms of Youth: Twentieth-Century Poetry and Adolescence and is the author of three books of poems, including Parallel Play. Recent articles by...

April 17, 2008

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...

April 16, 2008

CIAO: Expert Analysis on Tibet

During the month of April, Columbia University Press’s premier online database of international affairs, Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO), opens its front page with an in-depth analysis of the anti-Chinese uprising in Tibet for free viewing to the public. In...