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Philip Leventhal

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Editor at Columbia University Press. I acquire in Film and Media Studies, Journalism, and Literary Studies. Opinions my own.

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Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · 5h
Margaret Sullivan on THE PEOPLE'S PAPER by Matt Pressman, in *American Crisis*: "More than the history of a single newspaper ... a history of American journalism and, in many ways, of a vastly changing society. Recommended!" bit.ly/4hzyWpy @mattpressman.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
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MAAH Stone Book Award @maahstonebookaward.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Get your tickets! American Grammar by Jarvis Givens @harpercollins.bsky.social @harperbooks.bsky.social Queen Mother by Ashley Farmer @drashleydfarmer.bsky.social @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social @pantheonbooks.bsky.social Afterlives of the Plantation by Jarvis McInnis @columbiaup.bsky.social
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ROROTOKO @rorotoko.com · 05/10/2026
"That's Bob Dylan walking into the room, and we know exactly what that means." Ethan Warren on Dylan on screen, from @columbiaup.bsky.social rorotoko.com/micro-inter...
“That's Bob Dylan walking into the room, and we know exactly what that means.” Ethan Warren
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Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For LARB, I wrote about DTF St Louis and the gloriously unpredictable televisual worlds of Steven Conrad lareviewofbooks.org/article/dtf-...
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Nonpredictive Texts | Los Angeles Review of Books
Exploring ‘DTF St. Louis’ and the anti-algorithmic worlds of Steven Conrad.
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Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
An amazing panel on the possibilities and challenges confronting contemporary film moderated by Erika Balsom, author of THE EDGES OF CINEMA, with Peggy Ahwesh , Éric Baudelaire, and Tiffany Sia as part of #NYFF64. bit.ly/4wWIGzg @erikaaaa.bsky.social @filmlinc.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
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Matthew Pressman @mattpressman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Homophobia was the norm in American media in the 20th century, but the NY Daily News—America’s most popular newspaper—was worse than most. Best known example is the mocking coverage of Stonewall (seen here) but there’s more
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Matthew Pressman @mattpressman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My new book The People's Paper got noticed by @KirkusReviews, which calls it "copiously researched and smartly paced." Full review: www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
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THE PEOPLE'S PAPER | Kirkus Reviews
On the beat with a once-mighty tabloid.
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MAAH Stone Book Award @maahstonebookaward.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Get your tickets! Afterlives of the Plantation by Jarvis McInnis @columbiaup.bsky.social Queen Mother by Ashley Farmer @drashleydfarmer.bsky.social @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social @pantheonbooks.bsky.social American Grammar by Jarvis Givens @harpercollins.bsky.social @harperbooks.bsky.social
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Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Offers essential insight into how the publishing industry and cultural institutions shaped the texts of Black writers..." SHADOW ARCHIVES, by Jean-Christopher Cloutier, reviewed in American Literature. Use the coupon code CUP20 and save 20% bit.ly/4AP5iE0 @columbiaup.bsky.social
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Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
With Halloween coming later this month, now is the perfect time to pick up Adam Lowenstein's two classic books in horror studies: SHOCKING REPRESENTATION and HORROR FILM & OTHERNESS. Use the coupon code CUP 20 and save 20%! bit.ly/4dhaRkH @columbiaup.bsky.social
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Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Join Jean-Christophe Cloutier as he discusses his new book BIG AMERICAN WRITER at the Lowell Celebrates Kerouac Fall Festival 2026 on 10/8 at 4 pm! bit.ly/4yvdaJt @columbiaup.bsky.social
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Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
On Thursday, October 8 at 1 pm (EST), join Aparna Dharwadker as she discusses her award-winning book, COSMO-MODERNISM & THEATER IN INDIA: WRITING & STAGING MULTILINGUAL MODERNISMS. The talk will be at the University of Wisconsin and on zoom. bit.ly/4jDnQ3V @columbiaup.bsky.social
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Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Tonight at 6 pm! To mark the publication of her new book, THE EDGES OF CINEMA, Erika Balsom will lead a panel discussion featuring #NYFF64 filmmakers Peggy Ahwesh, Éric Baudelaire, and Tiffany Sia. bit.ly/4ruRTgh @erikaaaa.bsky.social @filmlinc.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
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Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Ingeniously unravels and decisively renews the modernist obsession with the all."--Zakir Paul Coming this Fall! APPARITIONS OF THE UNIVERSAL IN 20TH-CENTURY LITERATURE & ART, by Nico Israel. You can pre-order the book now and use the code CUP20 to save 20%! bit.ly/3U5ehjZ @columbiaup.bsky.social
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Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Coming soon, ALL THE WORLD IN THEE, a new poetry anthology that offers a powerful new way to understand LGBTQ+ identities and feelings over time, edited by Stephanie Burt, Drew Daniel, and Melissa Sanchez. bit.ly/45G1ruH @notquitehydepark.bsky.social @drewdaniel.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
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All the World in Thee | Columbia University Press
Poets have depicted queer desire, same-sex love, and life outside gender norms since the beginning of the written word. Across eras and generations—from cl... | CUP
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Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Very exciting to see CROWD CONTROL: THE RACIAL ORDERING OF LITERARY REWARD, by Claire Grossman , Juliana Spahr, Stephanie Young featured on the Journal of Blacks Higher Education's list of Recent Books of Interest to African American Scholars. bit.ly/4hnULIv @columbiaup.bsky.social
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Columbia Journalism Review @columjournreview.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
How to keep AI from killing us with fake news, by @anikacolliernavaroli.com. www.cjr.org/ask-anika/is...
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Ask Anika: Is my chatbot poisoned by disinformation?
How to keep AI from killing us with fake news.
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Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
With William Greaves's eagerly anticipated *Once Upon a Time in Harlem,* coming this Fall, now is the perfect time to pick up a copy of WILLIAM GREAVES: FILMMAKING AS MISSION, edited by Scott MacDonald and Jacqueline Najuma Stewart! tinyurl.com/8crh87zf @columbiaup.bsky.social
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Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"African storytelling sees the forest as something that cannot be owned and marks the limits of the world as we know it." Ainehi Edoro discusses her new book FOREST IMAGINARIES: HOW AFRICAN NOVELS THINK tinyurl.com/3fvwks5a @brittlepaper.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
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Books That Take You Into the Woods
Ainehi Edoro-Glines’ latest book explores the ways African writers play with (and in) the forest.
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Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"A Skyscraper for Superman and the Common Man" Matthew Pressman, author of THE PEOPLE'S PAPER, on the Daily News Building and how it played such a crucial role in NYC life via The Retrologist. tinyurl.com/3c8b6z4c @mattpressman.bsky.social @rolandopujol.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
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A Skyscraper for Superman and the Common Man | Guest Column
The author of ‘The People’s Paper: The Rise and Fall of the New York Daily News’ tells the tale of its fabled Art Deco temple
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Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
On Wednesday, October 14th at 6pm, join Jean-Christophe Cloutier as he discusses his new book BIG AMERICAN WRITER: THE BILINGUAL JACK KEROUAC w/ Brent Hayes Edwards at Columbia's Maison Francaise. tinyurl.com/xf38aejm @columbiaup.bsky.social
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Big American Writer: the Bilingual Jack Kerouac | Maison Française
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Matthew Pressman @mattpressman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Lots more on Maury and the seesawing politics of the New York Daily News in my book, The People’s Paper, available now from @columbiaup.bsky.social cup.columbia.edu/book/the-peo...
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The People's Paper | Columbia University Press
When the New York Daily News launched in 1919, it didn’t just sell papers—it reinvented them. Brash, populist, and impossible to ignore, the United State... | CUP
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Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Invokes the power of a great 20th-century tabloid that “would tell it like it is without making a zoo out of it.” Great to see THE PEOPLE'S PAPER, by @mattpressman.bsky.social mentioned in @semafor.com! tinyurl.com/426d9mw6 @semaforben.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social tinyurl.com/426d9mw6
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Columbia University Press @columbiaup.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In our latest Off the Page Presents Q&A, THE SISTERHOOD author Courtney Thorsson reflects on the mentors who shaped her work, the women she met through her research, and her experience with Columbia University Press. buff.ly/gQLw5V5 @asalh-bhm.bsky.social #BlackLiterature #BlackStudies
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Columbia University Press @columbiaup.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
In this episode of The Brian Lehrer Show, author of FIGHTING FOR NEW YORK, Nicholas Freudenberg talks about his long career advocating for solutions to public health crises in NYC and analyzes the successes of the activists working to improve the health of New Yorkers. buff.ly/xqF5d3i
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How to Fight for Public Health | WNYC
Nicholas Freudenberg, professor emeritus of public health at the City University of New York School of Public Health and the author of Fighting for New York: Activism for Health and Social Justice…
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Columbia University Press @columbiaup.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The conference may be over, but the conversation continues. 🎧 Listen to our African American and African Diaspora Studies playlist to hear the latest from our Black studies authors. buff.ly/2RNi4z4 #ListenUP #ASALH2026 @asalh-bhm.bsky.social #BlackHistoryMatters
Graphic promoting the Columbia University Press Off the Page podcast playlist “African American and African Diaspora Studies: Authors in Conversation.” A smartphone displays the playlist, which features conversations with authors in Black studies. Text reads: “#ListenUP at cup.columbia.edu.”
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Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Congratulations to Aparna Bhargava Dharwadker, whose book COSMO-MODERNISM & THEATER IN INDIA: WRITING & STAGING MULTILINGUAL MODERNISMS is the 2026 MSA Book Prize winner! tinyurl.com/yc6mbpcc @moderniststudies.bsky.social #ModernistLatitudes @columbiaup.bsky.social
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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Read what the judges had to say about this groundbreaking book on the MSA website: www.moderniststudies.org/prizes/short...
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The Modernist Studies Association is devoted to the study of the arts in their social, political, cultural, and intellectual contexts from the later nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century. The o...
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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Columbia UP is also offering 20% off Shir Alon's Static Forms: Writing the Present in the Modern Middle East, the MSA First Book Prize winner. Enter CUP20 at check out! And check out what the judges had to say here: www.moderniststudies.org/prizes/first... @columbiaup.bsky.social
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The Modernist Studies Association is devoted to the study of the arts in their social, political, cultural, and intellectual contexts from the later nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century. The o...
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Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Erika Balsom ... has a sharp read on where film stands today." -- Cassie Packard THE EDGES OF CINEMA: 21ST-CENTURY FILM CULTURE, by Erika Balsom, makes Frieze's Autumn Reading Picks! tinyurl.com/mr233pb3 @erikaaaa.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
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Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If you are at the Pordenone Silent Film Festival on October 5th at 5:30, you can catch Alison Griffiths talking about her amazing recent book, NOMADIC CINEMA: A CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY OF THE EXPEDITION FILM. tinyurl.com/ex4y2hhj @columbiaup.bsky.social
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CALENDAR MONDAY OCTOBER 5th
Pordenone Silent Film Festival | 3>10 ottobre 2026
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Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
To mark the publication of her amazing new book, THE EDGES OF CINEMA, Erika Balsom will lead a panel discussion at the New York Film Festival featuring #NYFF64 filmmakers Peggy Ahwesh, Éric Baudelaire,& Tiffany Sia on Sunday 10/4 at 6 pm! bit.ly/4ruRTgh @filmlinc.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
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Free Talk: NYFF Currents and The Edges of Cinema
Critic Erika Balsom leads a panel discussion featuring filmmakers from the NYFF64 Currents lineup considering the recent histories and possible futures of alternative filmmaking practices, and reflect...
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Columbia University Press @columbiaup.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We’re proud to publish award-winning books in Black studies! 🏆📚 AT #ASALH2026? Stop by Booth #3 to check out these books and more, or visit us at buff.ly/X8fNlJ9 @asalh-bhm.bsky.social #BlackStudies #AfricanAmericanStudies #AfricanDiasporaStudies #BlackHistory
Graphic promoting award-winning books from Columbia University Press at the Association for the Study of African American Life & History Annual Meeting. Featured books are Scattered and Fugitive Things by Laura E. Helton, Afterlives of the Plantation by Jarvis C. McInnis, and The Dark Delight of Being Strange by James B. Haile III. Text lists exhibit hall hours and Booth #3.
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Columbia University Press @columbiaup.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"WE THE PLATFORM is a crucial text for anyone trying to understand the current literary climate and how we got here." —Tom Comitta, LARB buff.ly/lHRVxdc
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Literary Web 2.0 | Los Angeles Review of Books
Is it the end of reading or a brand-new era?
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Columbia University Press @columbiaup.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"[FOREST IMAGINARIES] offers a tour de force study of the politics and poetics of the forest in African literature." — Farah Bakaari, Mix tape buff.ly/36uNV5J
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Mixtape #9: Recent Monographs of Note
For Mixtape # 9 we asked a few of our colleagues what recent academic monographs were on their summer reading list. What insights are they taking into the new academic year? What should we put back…
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Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"This is a bracing work of institutional critique, aimed at the very heart of the American literary field." -- James English Now available! CROWD CONTROL: THE RACIAL ORDERING OF LITERARY REWARD, by Claire Grossman, Juliana Spahr, and Claire Grossman! bit.ly/47mdv53 @columbiaup.bsky.social
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Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"Pressman’s account is lively and entertaining that takes seriously an icon of our popular culture and the people who have read it and produced it over the past century." -- Kathryn Cramer Brownell, THE PEOPLE'S PAPER, by @mattpressman.bsky.social bit.ly/46Z8Vts @columbiaup.bsky.social
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Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Erika Balsom, author of the recenlty published EDGES OF CINEMA, has an excellent essay on the forgotten New Wave auteur, Paula Delsol in @nybooks.com. bit.ly/46CNT3M @erikaaaa.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
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Sand Castles | Erika Balsom
To begin, a guessing game. The February 1967 issue of Cahiers du cinéma includes a “Dictionary of New French Cinema” comprising capsule commentaries on
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Matthew Pressman @mattpressman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A bit of newspaper history from 100 years ago: the NY Daily News becomes the first American daily to reach a circulation of 1 million readers -- the Marvelous Million, as this 1926 house ad called them
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Columbia University Press @columbiaup.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Attention attendees of #ASLAH2026! Join Jarvis C. McInnis on Friday, 9/25 @ 10:45am for a roundtable on his book, AFTERLIVES OF THE PLANTATION, winner of this year’s ASALH Book Prize! buff.ly/gr9j7Wk
Graphic promoting the Hine-Horne Book Roundtable at the Association for the Study of African American Life and History’s 111th Annual Conference in Norfolk, Virginia. The event features Jarvis C. McInnis discussing his book, Afterlives of the Plantation: Plotting Agrarian Futures in the Global Black South, with Julius Fleming Jr., Kendrick Ian Grandison, Tiffany Lethabo King, and Marlon Ross. It takes place Friday, September 25, from 10:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. at the Norfolk Waterside Marriott Hotel. The graphic also announces Afterlives of the Plantation as the winner of the 2026 ASALH Book Prize.
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Columbia University Press @columbiaup.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Get conference-ready! 📚 Heading to #ASALH2026? Explore new and upcoming titles in Black studies. Stop by Booth #3 to explore these books and more, or visit us at buff.ly/X8fNlJ9 @asalh-bhm.bsky.social #BlackHistoryMatters #BlackStudies #AfricanAmericanStudies #AfricanDiasporaStudies
Graphic promoting Columbia University Press at the Association for the Study of African American Life & History Annual Meeting. Three new and forthcoming books are pictured: The Black Aerial Imagination by Delali Kumavie, Black Arts, Black Muslims by Ellen McLarney, and Theorizing Fallism by A. Kayum Ahmed. Text lists exhibit hall hours and Booth #3.Graphic promoting Columbia University Press at the Association for the Study of African American Life & History Annual Meeting. Featured books are I Hear Freedom by Cisco Bradley, Afterlives of the Plantation by Jarvis C. McInnis, and The Souths in Her by Nicole M. Morris Johnson. Text lists exhibit hall hours and Booth #3.
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Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"[R]eframes familiar debates about bias and balance within a longer history of political struggle offering ... a framework that will shape future conversations." MAKING THE LIBERAL MEDIA, by @ajbauer.bsky.social reviewed in *American Journalism.* bit.ly/4xCg1z3 @columbiaup.bsky.social
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Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Like the Daily News itself in its heyday, THE PEOPLE'S PAPER is essential reading." --Nicole Hemmer Now available! Use the coupon code CUP20 and save 20% on THE PEOPLE'S PAPER, by Matthew Pressman! bit.ly/46Z8Vts @mattpressman.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
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The People's Paper | Columbia University Press
When the New York Daily News launched in 1919, it didn’t just sell papers—it reinvented them. Brash, populist, and impossible to ignore, the United State... | CUP
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Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Erika Balsom, author of THE EDGES OF CINEMA, will be giving a talk at Light Industry on Oct. 6 at 7 pm, about the controversial 1981 film *A.A.A. Offresi* made by an Italian feminist collective. Looks amazing! bit.ly/3Tf08k0 @erikaaaa.bsky.social @lightindustry.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
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Columbia University Press @columbiaup.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Join Nicholas Freudenberg for an author talk about FIGHTING FOR NEW YORK on September 25 at 7:00 PM at Kingsland Homestead. Get your tickets today! buff.ly/J0rXwbP
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Author Nicholas Freudenberg at QHS | Queen Historical Society – Kingsland Homestead
For over 50 years, the Queens Historical Society has been actively preserving and celebrating the history and heritage of Queens, New York through exhibitions, events and education.
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MAAH Stone Book Award @maahstonebookaward.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Afterlives of the Plantation by Jarvis McInnis is one of three finalists for the 2026 MAAH Stone Book Award! Come learn more about this incredible book on October 8th! Register at our website. @columbiaup.bsky.social
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Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Congratulations to Shir Alon, whose book, STATIC FORMS: WRITING THE PRESENT IN THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST is the winner of the 2026 Modernist Studies Association First Book Prize! bit.ly/46EHCFm #ModernistLatitudes @moderniststudies.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Congratulations to the 2026 MSA First Book Prize: Shir Alon for <Static Forms: Writing the Present in the Modern Middle East> with @columbiaup.bsky.social! cup.columbia.edu/book/static-...
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Static Forms | Columbia University Press
What does it mean to write a literature of the present? In the early twentieth century, Arabic and Hebrew writers faced a parallel predicament. Modern litera... | CUP
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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Congratulations to the 2026 MSA Book Prize winner Aparna Bhargava Dharwadker for <Cosmo-Modernism and Theater in India: Writing and Staging Multilingual Modernisms> published by @columbiaup.bsky.social! You can order her book here: cup.columbia.edu/book/cosmo-m...
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Cosmo-Modernism and Theater in India | Columbia University Press
Finalist, 2026 Outstanding Book Award, Association for Theatre in Higher EducationUrban theater took shape in postindependence India as a large and complex f... | CUP
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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
"Literary experimentation has grown out of conditions of unusual duress in the 21st century. AI has become the latest symbol of that duress." Tom Comitta talks to Aarthi Vadde about her new book: lareviewofbooks.org/article/we-the-…
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