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October 28, 2020

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...

October 27, 2020

New Book Tuesday! Plastic Free and Super Polluters, The Contemporary Superhero Film

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Plastic Free The Inspiring Story of a Global Environmental Movement and Why It Matters Rebecca Prince-Ruiz and Joanna Atherfold Finn This book explores how one of the world’s leading environmental campaigns...

October 25, 2020

Video: 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...

October 24, 2020

Video: 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...

October 23, 2020

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...

October 22, 2020

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...

October 21, 2020

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 Prison On the Architectures of Carcerality Edited by Isabelle Kirkham-Lewitt The collected essays in this book implicate architecture in the more longstanding...

October 20, 2020

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 Empire The BBC’s Eastern Service and the Emergence of the Global Anglophone Novel Daniel Ryan Morse In Radio Empire, Daniel Ryan Morse demonstrates the significance...

October 19, 2020

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...

October 16, 2020

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...

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