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 her new book, Beth Berkowitz looks at the Bible and rabbinic literature to reimagine the bonds between animals.
Katharina Volk’s new translation of Cicero explores this timeless question.
In Returning, Nicholas Lemann traces his family’s story from Germany to the Deep South to New York, where he embraces Judaism.
In This Is the Only Kingdom, Professor Jaquira Díaz tells a story about the barrio of el Caserío Padre Rivera in Puerto Rico.
With the help of AI, Alexey Yurenev, an adjunct professor at Columbia’s School of the Arts, attempts to do just that in his new book.
In “My Life, My Science,” Nancy Wexler, a longtime professor of neuropsychology at CUIMC, describes her pursuit of the causes and a cure for Huntington’s disease.
Timothy Wu tries to answer that question in The Age of Extraction.
In her book, Halle Tecco provides an insider’s guide to transforming the system through innovation.
Columbia SIPA Dean Keren Yarhi-Milo and Secretary Hillary Clinton co-edited a book that brings readers into the room where leaders make decisions in times of crisis.
Co-authors John Mutter and Sonali Deraniyagala explain why an interdisciplinary approach is necessary to understand these connections.
A Woman Is Responsible for Everything looks at the integral role of women in early modern Jewish communal life.
In her book, Natalia Rogach Alexander discusses how the celebrated thinker on democracy and education can still enlighten today.