Off the Page: A Columbia University Press Podcast

In an unsettling time in American history, the outbreak of right-wing violence is among the most dis

A new kind of city park has emerged in the early twenty-first century. Postindustrial parks transfor

Welcome to another episode of New Books in Chinese Studies. Today, I will be talking to Columbia Uni

The notion of beauty is inherently elusive: aesthetic judgments are at once subjective and felt to b

Movements that take issue with conventional understandings of autism spectrum disorder, a developmen

The COVID-19 pandemic left millions grieving their loved ones without the consolation of traditional

Despite its persistence and viciousness, anti-Semitism remains undertheorized in comparison with oth

Around the turn of the millennium, Pentecostal churches began to pepper majority-Buddhist Sri Lanka,

Half a century ago, deindustrialization gutted blue-collar jobs in the American Midwest. But today,

On the surface of the Sun, spots appear and fade in a predictable cycle, like a great clock in the s

In Jerusalem, as World War II was coming to an end, an extraordinary circle of friends began to meet

Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks to Trish Kahle, Assistant Professor of History at Georg

From the 1960s through the 1990s, the most common job for women in the United States was clerical wo

Marxism and psychoanalysis have a rich and complicated relationship to one another, with countless f

Is involuntary psychiatric treatment the solution to the intertwined crises of untreated mental illn

Women working in the sciences face obstacles at virtually every step along their career paths. From

At Every Depth: Our Growing Knowledge of the Changing Oceans (Columbia UP, 2024) takes readers on a

Hell on earth is real. The toxic fusion of big oil, Evangelical Christianity, and white supremacy ha

What roles did Americans play in the expanding global empires of the nineteenth century? In The Chin

John Dewey's Democracy and Education (1916) transformed how people around the world view the purpose