Interviews with Columbia University Press authors.
Medical schools have increasingly incorporated the humanities and social sciences into their teachin
In If All the World Were Paper: A History of Writing in Hindi (Columbia UP, 2024), Tyler W. Williams
How do traditions and peoples grapple with loss, particularly when it is of such magnitude that it d
As climate change alters seasons around the globe, literature registers and responds to shifting env
As the 2024 American presidential election approaches, it is common to hear scholars and journalists
Over the last two decades, the United States has supported a range of militias, rebels, and other ar
Beth Blum, Assistant Professor of English at Harvard, is the author of The Self-Help Compulsion (Col
When East Asia opened itself to the world in the nineteenth century, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean i
Why do armed groups employ terrorism in markedly different ways during civil wars? Drawing on more t
Today’s book is: Immigration Realities: Challenging Common Misperceptions (Columbia UP, 2024), by Er
Shadows. Smoke. Dark alleys. Rain-slicked city streets. These are iconic elements of film noir visua
In the late nineteenth century, Chinese reformers and revolutionaries believed that there was someth
More than any other global institution, the US Federal Reserve’s decisions and communications drive
A number of converts to Buddhism report paranormal experiences. Their accounts describe psychic abil
Liberal democracy is in crisis around the world, unable to address pressing problems such as climate
The Fox Spirit, the Stone Maiden, and Other Transgender Histories from Late Imperial China (Columbia
After the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act loosened discriminatory restrictions, people from Nor
How did ordinary Iraqis survive the occupation of their communities by the Islamic State? How did th
Departing from the conventional association of modernism with the city, Hannah Freed-Thall's Moderni
Yanagawa Seigan (1789–1858) and his wife Kōran (1804–79) were two of the great poets of nineteenth-c
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