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A bit late to this, but congratulations to Jarvis McInnis, whose book, AFTERLIVES OFTHE PLANTATION, won The Association for the Study of African American Life and History’s 2026 prize for Best New Book! bit.ly/3PjdZ6e @asalh-bhm.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

Today at 4 pm, join Jennifer Scappettone as she discusses her new book, POETRY AFTER BARBARISM at the CUNY Graduate Center. bit.ly/4ljmfiQ @xenoglossic.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social
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Lost Recipes | Defector In 1991, Spin magazine took the Compton rap collective N.W.A out to eat for a profile at the Russian Tea Room in Manhattan. The white author presents gangsta rap as a cynical enterprise, no different ...

I wrote about old rap magazines, the fight for the future of hip hop’s past, and the impact the digital age has had on history, for @defector.com
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Promotional graphic announcing “Winner!” for The Rebirth of Suspense: Slowness and Atmosphere in Cinema by Rick Warner. The book cover appears on the right, showing a close-up of a woman’s face lit by blurred city lights at night. Text notes it as a 2025 Choice Outstanding Academic Title. Bottom banner offers 20% off with code CUP20SM at cup.columbia.edu alongside the Columbia University Press logo.

We are pleased to announce that Rick Warner’s THE REBIRTH OF SUSPENSE has been named a 2025 Choice Outstanding Academic Title by Choice Reviews and Choice Magazine. buff.ly/CGprm40 @choicereviews.bsky.social

Next Wednesday (3/11) at 5:30, join A. J. Bauer as he discusses his new book, MAKING THE LIBERAL MEDIA: HOW CONSERVATIVE BUILT A MOVEMENT AGAINST THE PRESS at the Institute for Public Knowledge in NYC. bit.ly/4le4JfQ @ajbauer.bsky.social @ipk.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

15 Must-Read Books for Women’s History Month 2026 - Columbia University Press Blog These books explore women’s fights for political voice, economic and property rights, representation in science and the arts, and global movements for equity.

Columbia University Press has an excellent list of books for women's history month, including THE SOUTHS IN HER, by Nicole M. Morris Johnson, THE SISTERHOOD, by Courtney Thorsson and much more! bit.ly/4rjshRV @nimojo.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

Tomorrow (3/6) at 4 pm, join Jennifer Scappettone as she discusses her new book, POETRY AFTER BARBARISM at the CUNY Graduate Center. bit.ly/4ljmfiQ @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

Letter from Morningside Heights ICE detained another Columbia student last Thursday, leaving the campus shaken and the school’s embattled administration pressing for her release.

"A lot of [international students] are afraid to talk,but I know they do want to.”

How students at Columbia reacted to last week's events and how they sought to balance the need to protest with fears of the consequences. open.substack.com/pub/collegew...

Trump Plays Directly into China’s Version of Reality Thomas Colley and Martin Moore - Columbia University Press Blog Thomas Colley and Martin Moore discuss how Trump’s volatility strengthens China’s global propaganda narrative and CCP-led global order.

"Trump’s chaotic and coercive foreign policy has benefited Beijing because it so perfectly reinforces [the] CCP narrative"

The authors of DICTATING REALITY, Thomas Colley and @martinjemoore.bsky.social explain how Trump's unpredictability benefits China bit.ly/4u7w4nW @columbiaup.bsky.social

My review of Rob King's excellent book on softcore auteur Radley Metzger is in here too, though not, I admit, doing the antifascist work of Pete Coviello on One Battle After Another or an interview with Kleber Mendonça Filho. online.ucpress.edu/fq/article/7...

"Rob King’s illuminating book helps us understand how the films of Radley Metzger helped make an erotic world that finally had no place for him."

Mark Goble has an excellent review of MAN OF TASTE in @filmquarterly.bsky.social. bit.ly/4b127NJ @goblemark.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

The cover of Bill Callahan's My Days of 58

Sebastian Langdell on Bill Callahan's latest album, exploring fatherhood, time, and forgiveness: "He gets to the heart of a certain kind of gratitude that can befall a man on an ordinary day in middle life."

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/bill-callahan-my-days-58-album-review-songwriter/

If the European Novel Thinks Like a Person, the African Novel Thinks Like a World Ainehi Edoro - Columbia University Press Blog Ainehi Edoro reflects on character, power, and narrative form, and how African novels think beyond the individual and imagine narrative as world-making.

What if the novel doesn’t center the individual as its organizing force? In this blog post, Ainehi Edoro examines how African fiction foregrounds worlds—layered, ecological, cosmological—where characters participate in meaning rather than govern it. buff.ly/mOSokvv #AfricanLiterature #NovelTheory

Now available! FILM DIPLOMACY: A MEDIA HISTORY OF US-TURKEY RELATIONS, by Ayşehan Jülide Etem. Use the coupon code CUP20 and save 20% bit.ly/3PaRGj2 @julideetem.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

Making the Liberal Media | Columbia University Press Conservatives have disagreed about many things, but they have long been united by the belief that the mainstream—or “liberal”—media is biased against... | CUP

"An essential read for understanding how conservative critiques of journalism became a political strategy, an identity marker, and a driver of media innovation."

Alice E. Marwick on MAKING THE LIBERAL MEDIA, by A.J. Bauer bit.ly/4rCFrdH @ajbauer.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

This is my favorite part. Because the answer is one of the book's core interventions.

The answer? Yes, both.

"[A] compelling contribution...shows how a sustained critique of liberal media bias provided coherency to the conservative movement."

MAKING THE LIBERAL MEDIA, by A. J. Bauer reviewed in *Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly* tinyurl.com/4xp9zcra @ajbauer.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

Congratulations to Christopher T. Fan, whose book, ASIAN AMERICAN FICTION AFTER 1965, is an Honorable Mention for the 2026 Book Award in Literary Studies from the Association for Asian American Studies. tinyurl.com/4bwnz8na @chrisfan.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

Congratulations to Shameem Black, whose book, FLEXIBLE INDIA: YOGA'S CULTURAL & POLITICAL TENSIONS is an Honorable Mention for the 2026 Book Award in Literary Studies from the Association for Asian American Studies. tinyurl.com/4bwnz8na @columbiaup.bsky.social

Jennifer Scappettone's Poetry After Barbarism Tickets | Free | 1 Mar @ 2220 Arts + Archives, Los Angeles | DICE The Poetic Research Bureau presents a reading for Jennifer Scappettone's new book *Poetry After Barbarism: The Invention of Motherless Tongues and Resistance...

This Sunday (3/1) at 5 pm, The Poetic Research Bureau presents a reading for Jennifer Scappettone's new book POETRY AFTER BARBARISM: THE INVENTION OF MOTHERLESS TONGUES & RESISTANCE TO FASCISM at 2200 Arts & Archives in LA. bit.ly/4rzVNnd @xenoglossic.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

Diana Martha Louis on Colored Insane - Columbia University Press Blog Diana Martha Louise shares what she hopesColored Insane, will contribute to the ongoing conversations about racial justice, mental health care, and Black life.

Explore how the end of slavery coincided with the rise of the asylum. In COLORED INSANE, Diana Martha Louis reveals how psychiatry racialized mental illness—and how Black thinkers challenged those narratives. Read more in this Q&A. buff.ly/n5eKzov #BlackHistoryMonth #ColoredInsane #BlackMentalHealth

Now available! MAKING THE LIBERAL MEDIA: HOW CONSERVATIVES BUILT A MOVEMENT AGAINST THE PRESS, by A.J. Bauer. Use the coupon code CUP20 and save 20%! bit.ly/4rCFrdH @ajbauer.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

Our monthly newsletter just went out. And because humans, committed and overcommitted humans do our homework the newsletter which goes out on February 23 can have "January" in its subject line. Check out what we have been up to and what is coming!

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Voyages of Discovery | Columbia University Press Frederick Wiseman is America’s foremost chronicler of public institutions. His films have focused on city, state, and local governments; hospitals; asylums... | CUP

For those interested in learning more about the films of Frederick Wiseman: VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY: THE CINEMA OF FREDERICK WISEMAN, by Barry Keith Grant. bit.ly/46mDWYz @columbiaup.bsky.social

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Trump's EPA wants us to cover our eyes. On climate policy, the Trump administration is willfully burying its head in the sand. It’s crucial newsrooms don’t follow.

Trump's EPA wants us to cover our eyes.! 🦋
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Promotional graphic announcing that Matthew Hayward’s THE RISE OF PACIFIC LITERATURE is named a 2025 Choice Outstanding Academic Titles by Choice Reviews and Choice Magazine. It includes the book’s cover and a 20% discount with code CUP20SM at cup.columbia.edu.

We are pleased to announce that Maebh Long and Matthew Hayward’s THE RISE OF PACIFIC LITERATURE has been named a 2025 Choice Outstanding Academic Title by Choice Reviews and Choice Magazine. buff.ly/op1VhAu @choicereviews.bsky.social

Cisco Bradley on I Hear Freedom - Columbia University Press Blog Cisco Bradley discusses how oral history anchors the book and why the Great Migration and Black freedom movements are essential to understanding the music.

In this Q&A, Cisco Bradley discusses what drew him to free jazz, how oral history anchors the book, and why the Great Migration and Black freedom movements are essential to understanding the music. buff.ly/4l9HbZh #BHM #FreeJazz #JazzHistory #BlackMusic #GreatMigration @aaads-iraascu.bsky.social

Check out Mohammed Muharram's review of Sarah Dimick's "Unseasonable: Climate Change in Global Literatures," published in 2024 by @columbiaup.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhum #ecocrit #climate #envhist
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BOOK NEWS: The entwined relationship of movement and writing for Black women authors The Souths in Her: Black Women Writers and Choreographers and the Poetics of Transmutation By Nicole M. Morris Johnson Columbia UP, 2026 ISB...

BOOK NEWS
The entwined relationship of movement and writing for Black women authors
*The Souths in Her* by Nicole M. Morris Johnson
Recent release from @columbiaup.bsky.social
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