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Off the Page: A Columbia UP Podcast
Interviews with Columbia University Press authors.
November 14, 2024
If All the World Were Paper
In If All the World Were Paper: A History of Writing in Hindi (Columbia UP, 2024), Tyler W. Williams puts questions of materiality, circulation, and p…
October 30, 2024
Prophetic Maharaja
How do traditions and peoples grapple with loss, particularly when it is of such magnitude that it defies the possibility of recovery or restoration? …
October 29, 2024
Unseasonable
As climate change alters seasons around the globe, literature registers and responds to shifting environmental time. A writer and a fisher track the d…
October 28, 2024
The Politics of Gen Z
As the 2024 American presidential election approaches, it is common to hear scholars and journalists discuss the role of particular groups such as Lat…
October 19, 2024
Illusions of Control
Over the last two decades, the United States has supported a range of militias, rebels, and other armed groups in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. Critic…
October 17, 2024
Self-Help, Dale Carnegie to Today (JP)
Beth Blum, Associate Professor of English at Harvard, is the author of The Self-Help Compulsion (Columbia University Press 2019). In 2020, she spoke w…
October 11, 2024
Afterlives of Letters
When East Asia opened itself to the world in the nineteenth century, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean intellectuals had shared notions of literature bec…
September 22, 2024
Repertoires of Terrorism
Why do armed groups employ terrorism in markedly different ways during civil wars? Drawing on more than a decade of fieldwork, Dr. Andreas E. Feldmann…
September 19, 2024
Immigration Realities: Challenging Common Misperceptions
Today’s book is: Immigration Realities: Challenging Common Misperceptions (Columbia UP, 2024), by Ernesto Castaneda and Carina Cione, which is a pract…
September 18, 2024
Through a Noir Lens
Shadows. Smoke. Dark alleys. Rain-slicked city streets. These are iconic elements of film noir visual style. Long after its 1940s heyday, noir hallmar…
August 23, 2024
Codes of Modernity
In the late nineteenth century, Chinese reformers and revolutionaries believed that there was something fundamentally wrong with the Chinese writing s…
August 8, 2024
Arthur Burns: “The smartest guy in the room”
More than any other global institution, the US Federal Reserve’s decisions and communications drive capital markets and alter financial conditions eve…
August 1, 2024
Everyday Architecture in Context
How do public markets, as ordinary as they seem, carry the weight of a city’s history? How do such everyday buildings reflect a city’s changing politi…
August 1, 2024
Paranormal States
A number of converts to Buddhism report paranormal experiences. Their accounts describe psychic abilities like clairvoyance and precognition, out-of-b…
July 31, 2024
Cooperation
Liberal democracy is in crisis around the world, unable to address pressing problems such as climate change. There is, however, another path—cooperati…
July 30, 2024
The Fox Spirit, the Stone Maiden, and Other Transgender Histories from Late Imperial China
The Fox Spirit, the Stone Maiden, and Other Transgender Histories from Late Imperial China (Columbia University Press, 2024) is a fascinating study of…
July 29, 2024
Asian American Fiction After 1965
After the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act loosened discriminatory restrictions, people from Northeast Asian countries such as South Korea, Taiwan…
July 26, 2024
Surviving the Islamic State
How did ordinary Iraqis survive the occupation of their communities by the Islamic State? How did they decide whether to stay or flee, to cooperate or…
July 25, 2024
Modernism at the Beach
Departing from the conventional association of modernism with the city, Hannah Freed-Thall's Modernism at the Beach: Queer Ecologies and the Coastal C…
July 21, 2024
American Zealots
In an unsettling time in American history, the outbreak of right-wing violence is among the most disturbing developments. In recent years, attacks ori…