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.
Paul Thomas Chamberlin’s book, Scorched Earth, recasts the conflict as a brutal struggle for survival among declining and ascendant imperi
In Pronoun Trouble, the Columbia professor and New York Times columnist tells the truth about those pesky little words.
A new book offers a framework for unifying the two spheres.
John Phan shows how modern notions of language history are often hampered by nationalist narratives.
James Hoberman covers that decade of cultural ferment in the city in Everything Is Now.
In Language City, Ross Perlin, a linguist, takes readers on a tour of the city’s communities with endangered tongues.
In Love, Money, Duty, Rachel Adams explores care as a form of work, a feeling, an ethic, and an art.
With Live Stock and Dead Things, Hannah Chazin challenges familiar narratives.
Atrocity: A Literary History explores written representations of mass violence.
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.