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Off the Page: A Columbia UP Podcast
Interviews with Columbia University Press authors.
April 26, 2024
Antiracist Journalism
Journalists have a long history of covering race and racism in the United States, telling stories that shed light on protest, activism, institutional …
April 18, 2024
Questioning Borders
Indigenous knowledge of local ecosystems often challenges settler-colonial cosmologies that naturalize resource extraction and the relocation of nomad…
April 14, 2024
The River Imp and the Stinky Jewel and Other Tales
Adam Kabat’s The River Imp and the Stinky Jewel and Other Tales: Monster Comics from Edo Japan (Columbia UP, 2023) is an in-depth introduction to the …
March 25, 2024
Death by Laughter
Can you really die from laughing too hard? Between 1870 and 1920, hundreds of women suffered such a fate—or so a slew of sensationalist obituaries wou…
March 15, 2024
Perilous Intimacies
Friendship—particularly interreligious friendship—offers both promise and peril. After the end of Muslim political sovereignty in South Asia, how did …
March 11, 2024
The American Poet Laureate
The American Poet Laureate: A History of U.S. Poetry and the State (Columbia University Press, 2023) by Dr. Amy Paeth shows how the state has been the…
March 1, 2024
Life Underground
Aboveground, Manhattan’s Riverside Park provides open space for the densely populated Upper West Side. Beneath its surface run railroad tunnels, disus…
February 24, 2024
Dying for Rights
“The things that are happening to North Korea are happening to all of us…they are part of the human community. To say that this is just a problem for …
February 24, 2024
I’m Here to Ask for Your Vote
During presidential campaigns, candidates crisscross the country nonstop—visiting swing states, their home turf, and enemy territory. But do all those…
February 23, 2024
Turn the World Upside Down
In the first half of the twentieth century, Black hemispheric culture grappled with the legacies of colonialism, U.S. empire, and Jim Crow. As writers…
February 22, 2024
Koume's World
In 1864, on a midsummer’s day, Kawai Koume, a 60-year old matriarch of a samurai family in Wakayama, makes a note in her diary, which she had dutifull…
February 19, 2024
Emancipation After Hegel
An Interview with Todd McGowan about his recent Emancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution (Columbia University Press, 2019). The …
February 10, 2024
Malaysian Crossings
Malaysian Chinese (Mahua) literature is marginalized on several fronts. In the international literary space, which privileges the Wes…
February 8, 2024
Terrorist Minds
What makes a person want to become a terrorist? Who becomes involved in terrorism, and why? In what ways does participating in violent extremism chang…
January 31, 2024
The Women of the Far Right
On mainstream social media platforms, far-right women make extremism relatable. They share Instagram stories about organic foods that help pregnant wo…
January 31, 2024
Science Is a Creative Human Enterprise
Listen to this interview of Natalie Aviles, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Virginia. We talk about how organizations shape people, an…
January 29, 2024
Illicit Monogamy
Angel Park is a Mormon fundamentalist polygamous community where plural marriages between one man and multiple women are common. Based on many years o…
January 15, 2024
Saving Ourselves
We've known for decades that climate change is an existential crisis. For just as long, we've seen the complete failure of our institutions to rise to…
January 10, 2024
Deserved
After the fall of the Iron Curtain, people across the former socialist world saw their lives transformed. In just a few years, labor markets were comp…
January 6, 2024
The Wake of Crows
Crows can be found almost everywhere that people are, from tropical islands to deserts and arctic forests, from densely populated cities to suburbs an…