Interviews with Columbia University Press authors.
Over the past century, virtually every Iranian—whether living in Iran or in the diaspora—has been ex
“Marriage is the foundation of a successful society,” proclaimed the Clinton-era welfare reform bill
Often, poetry and punk rock are seen as distinct activities that occur in different locations with s
In From Head Shops to Whole Foods: The Rise and Fall of Activist Entrepreneurs (Columbia University
George Hawley has written Making Sense of the Alt-Right (Columbia University Press, 2017). Hawley is
Before the 1960s, doctors were generally in control of the treatment of drug addicts. And that made
Simone Muller’s Wiring the World: The Social and Cultural Creation of Global Telegraph Networks (Col
Iranian cinema has close connections to the 1979 Islamic revolution. Ayatollah Khomeini , explicitly
Public scholarship takes many forms, from op-eds to activism to blog posts. In their new book, Down
Contemporary scholarship on the Mughal empire has generally ignored the role Sanskrit played in impe
Carrie J. Preston‘s new book tells the story of the global circulation of noh-inspired performances,
In Broken Tablets: Levinas, Derrida, and the Literary Afterlife of Religion (Columbia University Pre
Todd McGowan‘s Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets (Columbia University Press, 2
Rivi Handler-Spitz, Pauline C. Lee, and Haun Saussy have created a wonderful resource for readers, r
Covering sporting activities from ancient times right up to the modern day, Ronojoy Sen’s Nation at
American culture is ubiquitous across the globe. It travels to different social contexts and is cons
Richard Jean So’s new book studies a group of American and Chinese writers in the three decades afte
In his recent monograph, Deathpower: Buddhism’s Ritual Imagination in Cambodia (Columbia University
The essays in Jan Kiely and J. Brooks Jessup’s new edited volume, Recovering Buddhism in Modern Chin
What is the relationship between state power and self-destructive violence as a mode of political re
