Interviews with Columbia University Press authors.
Is it really harder to pay attention to something than it used to be? No doubt the world is getting
Edo-period Japan was a golden age for commercial literature. A host of new narrative genres cast the
During the Last Ice Age, Europe was a cold, dry place teeming with mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses, re
Today we have a group session (read: an hour and a half) with the authors Adam Blum, Peter Goldberg
Margaret Hillenbrand’s On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China (Columbia UP, 2023) examines the neg
In the heyday of American labor, the influence of local unions extended far beyond the workplace. Un
What makes fad diets so appealing to so many people? And how did these fads become so central to con
Adoniram Judson was the 19th-century version of an American celebrity. Americans flocked to listen t
The conventional story of Hong Kong celebrates the people who fled the mainland in the wake of the e
While early Buddhists hailed their religion's founder for opening a path to enlightenment, they also
Today I talked to Ravi Gupta and Kenneth Valpey about The Bhagavata Purana: Sacred Text and Living T
In this interview, I speak with Marion Holmes Katz about her latest book Wives and Work: Islamic Law
The “war on cancer” was launched during the Nixon Administration in 1971, but the term was part of t
When Robert Clive, the man who established Company rule in India was hauled in front of Parliament t
Certain cities—most famously New York, London, and Tokyo—have been identified as “global cities,” wh
Hello, world! This is the Global Media & Communication podcast series.In this episode, our host
Sleep was taking over Anna's life. Despite multiple alarm clocks and powerful stimulants, the young
In the decades after World War II, the United Nations established a global refugee regime that becam
In July 1813, a young American couple from Boston arrived in the Buddhist kingdom of Burma to preach
When the Soviet K-129 submarine sank in the Pacific Ocean in 1968, the CIA saw a possible treasure t
