Columbia University Press: 2355 books
Nancy Cunard
Heiress, Muse, Political Idealist
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2007
Lois Gordon's absorbing biography tells the story of a writer, activist, and cultural icon who embodied the dazzling energy and tumultuous spirit of her age, and whom William Carlos Williams once called "one of the major phenomena of history."
Nancy Cunard (1896-1965) led a life that...
Black & White & Noir
America's Pulp Modernism
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2002
Black & White & Noir explores America's pulp modernism through penetrating readings of the noir sensibility lurking in an eclectic array of media: Office of War Information photography, women's experimental films, and African-American novels, among others. It traces the dark edges of cultural...
Guilty Knowledge, Guilty Pleasure
The Dirty Art of Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
William Logan has been a thorn in the side of American poetry for more than three decades. Though he has been called the "most hated man in American poetry," his witty and articulate reviews have reminded us how muscular good reviewing can be. These new essays and reviews take poetry at...
by Sylvia Beach
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
Founder of the Left Bank bookstore Shakespeare and Company and the first publisher of James Joyce's Ulysses, Sylvia Beach had a legendary facility for nurturing literary talent. In this first collection of her letters, we witness Beach's day-to-day dealings as bookseller and publisher to expatriate...
Éric Rohmer
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
The director of twenty-five films, including My Night at Maud's (1969), which was nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award, and the editor in chief of Cahiers du cinéma from 1957 to 1963, Éric Rohmer set the terms by which people watched, made, and thought about cinema for decades. Such brilliance...
Unnatural Wonders
Essays from the Gap Between Art and Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Arthur C. Danto's essays not only critique bodies of work but reflect upon art's conceptual evolution as well, drawing for the reader a kind of "philosophical map" indicating how art and the criteria for judging it has changed over the twentieth century. In Unnatural Wonders the renowned...
Graphic Women
Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
Some of the most acclaimed books of the twenty-first century are autobiographical comics by women. Aline Kominsky-Crumb is a pioneer of the autobiographical form, showing women's everyday lives, especially through the lens of the body. Phoebe Gloeckner places teenage sexuality at the center of her...
Reform Cinema in Iran
Film and Political Change in the Islamic Republic
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
It is nearly impossible to separate contemporary Iranian cinema from the Islamic revolution that transformed film production in the country in the late 1970s. As the aims of the revolution shifted and hardened once Khomeini took power and as an eight-year war with Iraq dragged on, Iranian filmmakers...
African Film and Literature
Adapting Violence to the Screen
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2009
Analyzing a range of South African and West African films inspired by African and non-African literature, Lindiwe Dovey identifies a specific trend in contemporary African filmmaking-one in which filmmakers are using the embodied audiovisual medium of film to offer a critique of physical and psychological...
Chronicles of My Life
An American in the Heart of Japan
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2008
"I sometimes think that if, as the result of an accident, I were to lose my knowledge of Japanese, there would not be much left for me. Japanese, which at first had no connection with my ancestors, my literary tastes, or my awareness of myself as a person, has become the central element of my...
In Black and White
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki's In Black and White is a literary murder mystery in which the lines between fiction and reality are blurred. The writer Mizuno has penned a story about the perfect murder. His fictional victim is modeled on an acquaintance, a fellow writer. When Mizuno notices just before the...
Listening to the Page
Adventures in Reading and Writing
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2002
When he sold his first short story to The New Yorker in 1979, Alan Cheuse was hardly new to the literary world. He had studied at Rutgers under John Ciardi, worked at the Breadloaf Writing Workshops with Robert Frost and Ralph Ellison, written hundreds of reviews for Kirkus Reviews, and taught alongside...
Serendipities
Language and Lunacy
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 1998
Best-selling author Umberto Eco's latest work unlocks the riddles of history in an exploration of the "linguistics of the lunatic," stories told by scholars, scientists, poets, fanatics, and ordinary people in order to make sense of the world. Exploring the "Force of the False,"...
Exemplary Women of Early China
The Lienü zhuan of Liu Xiang
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
In early China, was it correct for a woman to disobey her father, contradict her husband, or shape the public policy of a son who ruled over a dynasty or state? According to the Lienü zhuan, or Categorized Biographies of Women, it was not only appropriate but necessary for women to step in with wise...