Off the Shelf is a Columbia News series in which professors discuss their recently published books, as well as what they have read recently and recommend, and who they would invite to the perfect dinner party.
In Binnie Kirshenbaum’s Counting Backwards, a wife must face a future without her beloved partner.
Rosalind Morris digs deep via ethnography, history, personal testimony, and political thought to tell the story about the mines.
Diana Matar’s collection of photos offers a quiet memorial to people killed by police who are often unmemorialized in the U.S.
In The Uncanny Muse, he traces the history of automation in the arts.
Carol Becker’s book—both memoir and essay—recounts a painful episode in her life.
Julie Stone Peters’ book on witchery and the law shows how fascinating the subject is.
Not Your Parents’ Politics, co-authored by Ioana Literat, looks at how young people are expressing themselves on Instagram, TikTok, and Yo
Building the Worlds That Kill Us shows how social, political, and economic order in the U.S.
Joseph Albernaz’s Common Measures revisits the lives of such writers as William Blake and the Wordsworths.
In his new book, Manan Ahmed shows readers that the cultural center of Pakistan has not disappeared, but it can only be glimpsed in reflections.
Frank Guridy’s book describes the history of how U.S. arenas have functioned as so much more than monuments to sports.
In this collection, “We’re Alone,” the Columbia professor traces a loose arc from childhood to the pandemic and recent events in Haiti.