"An original and brilliant exploration of the Great Masculine Renunciation, aka why modern men dress so differently than women." -- Valerie Steele Now available: NAPOLEON'S CLOSET, by Margaret Waller. Use the coupon code CUP20 and save 20%! bit.ly/4fNEnPk @columbiaup.bsky.social

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Why do the most powerful men in the West wear sober, understated attire? Until the “Great Masculine Renunciation” in the eighteenth century, luxurious an... | CUP

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Latest review of my book!

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"An intricate, nuanced and amazingly well-researched journey into the 20th-century origins of a belief in a structural liberal media bias" MAKING THE LIBERAL MEDIA, by @ajbauer.bsky.social reviewed in *The International Journal of Press/Politics.* bit.ly/4xnZeA7 @columbiaup.bsky.social

In this webinar from the CUNY School of Public Health, hosts Craig Willingham, Nevin Cohen, and Helen Arteaga and author Nicholas Freudenberg discuss FIGHTING FOR NEW YORK, a pragmatic account of health-focused social movements over the past several decades. buff.ly/lNt2IpF #NewYork @sph.cuny.edu

Fighting for New York: Activism for Health and Social Justice Since the 1960s (July 14, 2026)

In this webinar presentation of Fighting for New York Activism for Health and Social Justice Since the 1960s by Nicholas Freudenberg (Columbia University Press), the panel discusses the future of…

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In this episode of The Hindu, host G. Sampath and author Neeraj Kaushal discuss WHEN AFRICA COMES TO AMERICA, which explores the political, economic, and demographic consequences, considering to what extent African immigrants can overcome American racial hierarchies.

In Focus Weekend | When Africa Comes to America: How will rising Black Immigration transform US

A new book by Neeraj Kaushal, Professor of Social Policy at Columbia University, titled When Africa Comes to America: How the Next Wave of Immigrants Will Transform the United States’, argues that…

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We are pleased to announce that Russell Fielding's BREADFRUIT is an the honorable mention for the 2026 Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Book Award from the Caribbean Studies Association. buff.ly/Mzhl3AH #Fruit #CulinaryHistory #ReadUP

Excited to share my conversation with Dr. Joseph Allen Boone about his latest book from @columbiaup.bsky.social, "The Melville Effect: A Literary Afterlife Across the Arts"! It was a great conversation about the enduring, creative legacy of Melville's work. trevoraleo.substack.com/p/dr-joseph-...

Dr. Joseph Allen Boone Talks The Melville Effect, Aesthetic Hybridity, & Renewing Literary Traditions

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An excellent discussion on Julianne Werlin's *Life& Letters* of Aarthi Vadde's WE THE PLATFORM and how it describes the way writing and ideas now flow from printed books to social media platforms and back again. bit.ly/4bxAJYK @aarthivadde.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

Authorship After the Internet

Aarthi Vadde's We the Platform

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"An intricate, nuanced and amazingly well-researched journey into the 20th-century origins of a belief in a structural liberal media bias" MAKING THE LIBERAL MEDIA, by @ajbauer.bsky.social reviewed in *The International Journal of Press/Politics.* bit.ly/4xnZeA7 @columbiaup.bsky.social

Before Netflix, Hulu, and recommendation algorithms, video stores served as “third places” where clerks and customers traded jokes and knowledge — a civic experience that has largely disappeared, writes Joshua M. Greenberg: thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-lost-civ...

The Lost Civic Life of Movie Rental Stores

Decades before recommendation algorithms, video stores served as social hubs where conversation and camaraderie became a form of taste-making.

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New Ronee Blakley appreciation via Melissa Anderson for Film Comment checks in w/Altman, Dylan, Wenders & Eve Babitz: www.filmcomment.com/article/seei...

Seeing Stars: Ronee Blakley | Film Comment

Introducing a new column that delves into the career of a cinema luminary, past or present

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Now available! NAPOLEON'S CLOSET: THE EMPEROR, THE PRIEST, AND THE MEN WHO INVENTED MODERN FASHION, by Margaret Waller and published in the Gender & Culture series. Use the coupon code CUP20 and save 20%! bit.ly/4fNEnPk @columbiaup.bsky.social

Napoleon's Closet | Columbia University Press

Why do the most powerful men in the West wear sober, understated attire? Until the “Great Masculine Renunciation” in the eighteenth century, luxurious an... | CUP

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Why does everything feel so joyless? Welcome to the age of decadence without pleasure | Michèle Mendelssohn and Charlie Tyson

Why does everything feel so joyless? Welcome to the age of decadence without pleasure | Michèle Mendelssohn and Charlie Tyson

Decadence in our era comes in technologically mediated forms, emptied of desire and obsessed with self-optimisation

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Many faculty have been sounding the alarm about the problems generative AI poses for student learning. Strangely, some higher ed administrations seem have emerged as major AI boosters. Why? As I write in the latest @hedgehogreview.bsky.social it's a labor story: hedgehogreview.com/issues/the-f...

New from Tow: One org requested all syllabuses for 74 courses at UNC Chapel Hill with terms related to DEI. Their mission to “expose and root out corruption in government..." They claim to have filed more than 100,000 FOIA requests and nearly 100 lawsuits since 2022 By @mirandagreen.bsky.social

How a network of pink-slime sites and conservative activists went after campus DEI.

Using FOIA requests and hidden-camera videos, the groups targeted universities, leading to the firing of faculty and staff.

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Congratulations to Jarvis McInnis, whose book AFTERLIVES OF THE PLANTATION, published in the Black Lives in the Diaspora series, has been shortlisted for the MAAH Stone Book Award! bit.ly/45rezno @maahstonebookaward.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

New article from Notes from the End of Cinema, in which I thought I was going to write about The Odyssey but ended up writing about Bresson’s L’Argent davidhering.substack.com/p/visible-go...

Visible God: On Robert Bresson’s L’Argent

I saw two films at the cinema this week: Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, which I enjoyed, and Robert Bresson’s L’Argent. I was originally going to write something about The Odyssey, but seeing L’Arge...

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"A roadmap for health activists, FIGHTING FOR NEW YORK illustrates each step needed for successful advocacy through campaigns conducted by a wide range of city-based community organizations since the 1960s."— Marion Nestle, @marionnestle.bsky.social

Weekend reading: Fighting for New York - Food Politics by Marion Nestle

This book is a roadmap for health activists, illustrated by campaigns conducted by New York community organizations since the 1960s.

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"Many view the upcoming elections as a referendum on federal politics, but we do not have to wait for changes in Washington to create a healthier New York."— Nicholas Freudenberg, @citylimitsnews.bsky.social

Opinion: The November Election is an Opportunity for a Healthier New York

"The outcomes of the recent primary election, which will send a wave of younger, progressive candidates to the November ballot, give New Yorkers an unprecedented opportunity for bold change," the…

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Check out Sage Gerson's review of Brian Jacobson's "The Cinema of Extractions: Film Materials and Their Forms," published in 2025 by @columbiaup.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhum #envhist #mining #filmhist www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

Very exciting to see the THE MELVILLE EFFECT: A LITERARY AFTERLIFE ACROSS THE ARTS, by Joseph Boone, on display at Labyrinth Books in Princeton. The store is also selling the book at a great discount! bit.ly/4flGfjs @columbiaup.bsky.social

One thing AI can't do: experience the world through my sensorium sinykin.substack.com/p/to-make-th...

To Make the Stone Stony

I want to see again

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I wish I could tell you that I have consumed any other culture/thought about anything else in six months but I haven’t, and here’s a little bit about why. Thanks to @publicbooks.bsky.social and anyone who has allowed me to talk at them about HR and MD: www.publicbooks.org/heated-rival...

“Heated Rivalry” Is the “Moby-Dick” of Canadian Gay Hockey Shows - Public Books

The literary genre of contemporary MM romance realizes an imagined world that Melville was trying to write into being.

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Tomorrow (7/26) at 5 pm, join Diane Zinna author of LETTING GRIEF SPEAK and contributors Marie Cloutier and Judy Bolton-Fasman at Porter Square Books for a workshop on writing about grief. bit.ly/4gTpBZK @dianezinna.bsky.social @portersqbooks.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

Tomorrow (7/25) at 10 am, join Diane Zinna as she discusses her best-selling new book, LETTING GRIEF SPEAK at The Writer's Center in Bethesda. bit.ly/4wfC925 @dianezinna.bsky.social @thewriterscenter.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

Diane Zinna Book Release - The Writer's Center

The Writer’s Center welcomes writer Diane Zinna for a reading from her new book, Letting Grief Speak: Writing Portals for Life After Loss. FREE & open to the public. RSVP below. There will be a limite...

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On Sunday, July 26 at 5 pm, join Diane Zinna author of LETTING GRIEF SPEAK, and contributors Marie Cloutier and Judy Bolton-Fasman, for a workshop on writing about grief. bit.ly/4gTpBZK @dianezinna.bsky.social @portersqbooks.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

In which I consider how it could be that the concert I remember most fondly is one I didn’t really go to.

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Coming this November! THE NIGHT BEFORE: ESSAYS ON MUSIC, COMICS, AND CULTURE, by David Hajdu. Preoder now using the code CUP20 and save 20%! bit.ly/4vJtNPm @dhajdu.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

"Once we see film as infrastructure, the screen becomes a map of power."—Ayşehan Jülide Etem, Rorotoko buff.ly/lQtM70r #FilmDiplomacy #FilmAndMedia #History

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This history comes into focus when we take both the films and their audiences seriously. Educational films were not marginal relics, and viewers were not passive recipients. Sponsors, translators,…

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We are pleased to announce that Robert Gooding-Williams's DEMOCRACY AND BEAUTY has received an Honorable Mention for the 2026 Hugh L. Silverman Book Prize in Philosophy and Literature from the Association for Philosophy and Literature. buff.ly/2RnVGKk

Join Word UP Community bookshop and Nicholas Freudenberg for a book talk about Fighting for New York on Wednesday. July 29, 2026 | 7:00 PM EDT. RSVP Today. @wordupbooks.bsky.social

Nicholas Freudenberg's FIGHTING FOR NEW YORK with Merlin Chowkwanyun

Word Up Community Bookshop & Recirculation, community spaces in Washington Heights, NYC | espacios comunitarios en Nueva York

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hey!! the book came! the one with my essay! come see me and diane read from it @portersqbooks.bsky.social on 7/26!