Off the Page: A Columbia University Press Podcast

The scientific method that aspiring social scientists are taught in graduate school seems pretty str

During the first half of the twentieth century, a group of collectors and creators dedicated themsel

Lahore's Hall Road is the largest electronics market in Pakistan. Once the center of film and media

During the Republican period (1912–1949) and after, many Chinese Buddhists sought inspiration from n

Today’s book is: At Every Depth: Our Growing Knowledge of the Changing Oceans (Columbia UP, 2024), b

The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture (Columbia University P

How are notions of justice and equality constructed in Islamic virtue ethics (akhlaq)? How are Islam

The #MeToo movement inspired millions to testify to the widespread experience of sexual violence. Mo

Journalists have a long history of covering race and racism in the United States, telling stories th

Indigenous knowledge of local ecosystems often challenges settler-colonial cosmologies that naturali

Adam Kabat’s The River Imp and the Stinky Jewel and Other Tales: Monster Comics from Edo Japan (Colu

Can you really die from laughing too hard? Between 1870 and 1920, hundreds of women suffered such a

Friendship—particularly interreligious friendship—offers both promise and peril. After the end of Mu

The American Poet Laureate: A History of U.S. Poetry and the State (Columbia University Press, 2023)

Aboveground, Manhattan’s Riverside Park provides open space for the densely populated Upper West Sid

During presidential campaigns, candidates crisscross the country nonstop—visiting swing states, thei

“The things that are happening to North Korea are happening to all of us…they are part of the human

In the first half of the twentieth century, Black hemispheric culture grappled with the legacies of

In 1864, on a midsummer’s day, Kawai Koume, a 60-year old matriarch of a samurai family in Wakayama,

An Interview with Todd McGowan about his recent Emancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory