The SOF/Heyman Bookshelf
Podcasts from Columbia University's The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities, where we feature talks with professors about their recent work, publications, novels, and more. Constantine Lignos hosts. Previous seasons were hosted by Olivia Branscum and Timothy Lundy. We also feature The Trilling Tapes, a series that mines the recorded Trilling archives to uncover and contextualize more than forty years of exceptional critical thought.
Episodes
Rob King's Man of Taste
Host highlights Rob King's Man of Taste: The Erotic Cinema of Radley Metzger. Rob King uses Metzger’s work to explore what taste means and how it works, tracing the evolution of the adult film industry and the changing frontiers of cultural acceptability.
Julie Stone Peters's Staging Witchcraft Before the Law
In the final episode of the 2025 season of the SOF/Heyman Bookshelf, our host highlights Staging Witchcraft Before the Law: Skepticism, Performance as Proof, and Law as Magic in Early Modern Witch Trials by Julie Stone Peters. This book shows that judges and accusers turned to performance, staging to create doctrines of proof: catching the criminal “in the acte”; establishing “notoriety of the fac
Hannah Weaver's Experimental Histories: Interpolation and the Medieval British Past
Host highlights Hannah Weaver's Experimental Histories: Interpolation and the Medieval British Past. In this volume, Weaver examines the medieval practice of interpolation—inserting material from one text into another—which is often categorized as being a problematic, inauthentic phenomenon akin to forgery and pseudepigraphy.
Joseph Albernaz's Common Measures
Host highlights Joseph Albernaz's Common Measures: Romanticism and the Groundlessness of Community. With sharp close readings, new historical constellations, and innovative theoretical paradigms, Common Measures recasts the relationship of the Romantic period to the basic terms of modernity.
Ying Qian's Revolutionary Becomings
In our first episode of the 2025 season of the SOF/Heyman Bookshelf, host highlights Ying Qian's Revolutionary Becomings: Documentary Media in Twentieth-Century China. This work studies documentary film as an “eventful medium” deeply embedded in these upheavals and as a prism to investigate the entwined histories of media and China’s revolutionary movements.
Hamid Dabashi's The Persian Prince
In the final episode of the 2024 season of the SOF/Heyman Bookshelf, our host highlights The Persian Prince: The Rise and Resurrection of an Imperial Archetype by Hamid Dabashi. This book articulates a bold new idea of the Persian Prince—a metaphor of political authority, a figurative ideal deeply rooted in the collective memories of multiple nations, and a literary construct that connected Muslim
Alessandra Russo's A New Antiquity
In episode six of the 2024 season of the SOF/Heyman Bookshelf, our host highlights A New Antiquity: Art and Humanity as Universal, 1400–1600 by Alessandra Russo. Original and convincing, A New Antiquity is a pathbreaking study that disrupts existing conceptions of Renaissance art and early modern humanity.
Ana Fernández-Cebrián's Fables of Development
In episode five of the 2024 season of the SOF/Heyman Bookshelf, our host highlights Fables of Development: Capitalism and Social Imaginaries in Spain (1950-1967) by Ana Fernández-Cebrián. This book examines cultural fictions and social life at the time when Spain turned from autarchy to the project of industrial and tourist development.
Anoordha Iyer Siddiqi's Architecture of Migration
In episode four of the 2024 season of the SOF/Heyman Bookshelf, host highlights Architecture of Migration: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement by Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi. Countering conceptualizations of refugee camps as sites of border transgression, criminality, and placelessness, Siddiqi instead theorizes them as complex settlements, ecologies, and material archives.
Ellen Morris's Famine and Feast in Ancient Egypt
In episode three of the 2024 season of the SOF/Heyman Bookshelf, host highlights Famine and Feast in Ancient Egypt by Ellen Morris. This work covers the creation and curation of social memory in pharaonic and Greco-Roman Egypt. Ancient, Classical, Medieval, and Ottoman sources attest to the horror that characterized catastrophic famines.
Ryan Carr's Samson Occom
In episode two of the 2024 season of the SOF/Heyman Bookshelf, host highlights Samson Occom: Radical Hospitality in the Native Northeast by Ryan Carr. In this groundbreaking book, Ryan Carr argues that Occom’s writings were deeply rooted in Indigenous traditions of hospitality, diplomacy, and openness to strangers
Eleanor Johnson's Waste and the Wasters
In episode one of the 2024 season of the SOF/Heyman Bookshelf, host highlights Eleanor Johnson's Waste and the Wasters: Poetry and Ecosystemic Thought in Medieval England. The latest from the new SOF/Heyman board member is a groundbreaking examination of ecological thought in medieval England.
Marie Myung-Ok Lee's The Evening Hero
In episode nine of the second season of the SOF/Heyman Bookshelf, host highlights Marie Myung-Ok Lee's The Evening Hero. This sweeping, lyrical novel follows a Korean immigrant pursuing the American dream who must confront the secrets of the past or risk watching the world he’s worked so hard to build come crumbling down.
Sarah Zukerman Daly's Violent Victors
In episode eight of the new season of the SOF/Heyman Bookshelf, host highlights Sarah Zukerman Daly's Violent Victors: Why Bloodstained Parties Win Postwar Elections. Proposing actionable interventions that can help to moderate these trade-offs, Violent Victors links war outcomes with democratic outcomes to shed essential new light on political life after war.
Annie Pfeifer's To The Collector Belong The Spoils
In episode seven of the new season of the SOF/Heyman Bookshelf, host highlights To the Collector Belong the Spoils: Modernism and the Art of Appropriation by Annie Pfeifer. Positing a shadow history of modernism rooted in collection, citation, and paraphrase, To the Collector Belong the Spoils traces the movement's artistic innovation to its preoccupation with appropriating and rewriting the past.
Michele M Moody-Adams's Making Space For Justice
Michele M Moody-Adams's Making Space For Justice
In episode six of the new season of the SOF/Heyman Bookshelf, host highlights Making Space for Justice: Social Movements, Collective Imagination, and Political Hope by Michele M Moody-Adams. With this work, Dr. Moody-Adams contends that the insights arising from social movements are critical to bridging the gap between discerning theory and effectiv
Lauren Robertson's Entertaining Uncertainty In The Early Modern Theatre
In episode five of the new season of the SOF/Heyman Bookshelf, host highlights Entertaining Uncertainty in the Early Modern Theater: Stage Spectacle and Audience Response by Lauren Robertson. This original study shows that the theater of Shakespeare and his contemporaries responded to the crises of knowledge that roiled through early modern England by rendering them spectacular.
Bruce Robbins's Criticism and Politics
In episode four of the new season of the SOF/Heyman Bookshelf, host highlights Bruce Robbins's Criticism and Politics: A Polemical Introduction. This accessible introduction to cultural theory asks, "What is criticism for?" and presents an answer in the form of an original polemic about the purpose of criticism.
Andreas Huyssen's Memory Art in the Contemporary World
In episode three of the new season of the SOF/Heyman Bookshelf, host highlights Andreas Huyssen's Memory Art in the Contemporary World: Confronting Violence in the Global South. Andreas Huyssen deals with the ever-expanding field of transnational memory art, which has emerged from a political need to come to terms with traumatic historical pasts, from the Holocaust to apartheid, colonialism, state
Nadia Abu El-Haj's Combat Trauma
In episode two of the new season of the SOF/Heyman Bookshelf, host highlights Nadia Abu El-Haj's Combat Trauma. Nadia Abu El-Haj argues that in the American public’s imagination, the traumatized soldier stands in for destructive wars abroad, with decisive ramifications in the post-9/11 era.
Isabel Huacuja Alonso's Radio For The Millions
In episode one of the new season of the SOF/Heyman Bookshelf, host highlights Isabel Huacuja Alonso's Radio For The Millions. This stunning debut examines the history of Hindi-Urdu radio during the height of its popularity from the 1930s to the 1980s
Mae Ngai's The Chinese Question
In episode seven of the SOF/Heyman Bookshelf, host highlights The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics by Mae M. Ngai. The Chinese Question chronicles how Chinese migration to the world’s goldfields upended global power and economics and forged modern conceptions of race.
Nicholas Bartlett's Recovering Histories
In episode six of the SOF/Heyman Bookshelf, host highlights Recovering Histories: Life and Labor after Heroin in Reform-Era China
by: Nicholas Bartlett. Drawing on more than 18 months of fieldwork, Nicholas Bartlett explores how individuals’ varying experiences of heroin recovery highlight shared challenges of inhabiting China’s contested present.
Jeremy Dauber's American Comics
In episode five of the SOF/Heyman Bookshelf, host highlights American Comics: A History by Jeremy Dauber. American Comics is a rich chronicle of the last 150 years of American history through the lens of its comic strips, political cartoons, superheroes, graphic novels, and more.
Arden Hegele's Romantic Autopsy
In episode four of the SOF/Heyman Bookshelf, host highlights Romantic Autopsy: Literary Form and Medical Reading by Arden Hegele. Romantic Autopsy considers how the poetry and prose of British Romanticism was written in conversation with the field of medicine in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Roosevelt Montás's Rescuing Socrates
In episode three of the SOF/Heyman Bookshelf, host highlights Roosevelt Montás's Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation. Weaving together memoir and literary reflection, Rescuing Socrates describes Columbia University’s renowned Core Curriculum and how four authors had a profound impact on Montás’s life.
David Freedberg's Iconoclasm
In episode two of the new season of the SOF/Heyman Bookshelf, host highlights David Freedberg's Iconoclasm. Freedberg combines fresh thinking with deep expertise to address the renewed significance of iconoclasm, its ideologies, and its impact.
Susan Bernofsky's Clairvoyant of the Small
In episode one of the new season of the SOF/Heyman Bookshelf, host highlights Susan Bernofsky's Clairvoyant of the Small. In an immaculately researched and beautifully written biography, Susan Bernofsky sets Robert Walser in the context of early twentieth-century European history, establishing him as one of the most important modernist writers.
Frank Andre Guridy's The Sports Revolution: How Texas Changed the Culture of American Athletics
In the 1960s and 1970s, America experienced a sports revolution. New professional sports franchises and leagues were established, new stadiums were built, football and basketball grew in popularity, and the proliferation of television enabled people across the country to support their favorite teams and athletes from the comfort of their homes. At the same time, the civil rights and feminist movem
Chris Washburne's Latin Jazz: The Other Jazz
Jazz has always been a genre built on the blending of disparate musical cultures. Latin jazz illustrates this perhaps better than any other style in this rich tradition, yet its cultural heritage has been all but erased from narratives of jazz history. Told from the perspective of a long-time jazz insider, Latin Jazz: The Other Jazz corrects the record, providing a historical account that embraces
Kaiama L. Glover's A Regarded Self: Caribbean Womanhood and the Ethics of Disorderly Being
Hosted by Olivia Branscum and Timothy Lundy, this week's episode features Kaiama L. Glover's A Regarded Self: Caribbean Womanhood and the Ethics of Disorderly Being.
In A Regarded Self Kaiama L. Glover champions unruly female protagonists who adamantly refuse the constraints of coercive communities. Reading novels by Marie Chauvet, Maryse Condé, René Depestre, Marlon James, and Jamaica Kincaid, G
Dustin Stewart's Futures of Enlightenment Poetry
This book offers a revisionist account of poetry and embodiment from Milton to Romanticism. Scholars have made much of the period's theories of matter, with some studies equating the eighteenth century's modernity with its materialism. Yet the Enlightenment in Britain also brought bold new arguments for the immateriality of spirit and evocative claims about an imminent spirit realm. Protestant rel
Jack Halberstam's Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire
In Wild Things Jack Halberstam offers an alternative history of sexuality by tracing the ways in which wildness has been associated with queerness and queer bodies throughout the twentieth century. Halberstam theorizes the wild as an unbounded and unpredictable space that offers sources of opposition to modernity's orderly impulses. Wildness illuminates the normative taxonomies of sexuality agains
Matthew Hart's Extraterritorial: A Political Geography of Contemporary Fiction
The future of fiction is neither global nor national. Instead, Matthew Hart argues, it is trending extraterritorial. Extraterritorial spaces fall outside of national borders but enhance state power. They cut across geography and history but do not point the way to a borderless new world. They range from the United Nations headquarters and international waters to CIA black sites and the departure z
Eugenia Lean's Vernacular Industrialism in China
In early twentieth-century China, Chen Diexian (1879–1940) was a maverick entrepreneur—at once a prolific man of letters and captain of industry, a magazine editor and cosmetics magnate. He tinkered with chemistry in his private studio, used local cuttlefish to source magnesium carbonate, and published manufacturing tips in how-to columns. In a rapidly changing society, Chen copied foreign technol
Casey Blake, Daniel H. Borus, and Howard Brick's At the Center
At a time when American political and cultural leaders asserted that the nation stood at “the center of world awareness,” thinkers and artists sought to understand and secure principles that lay at the center of things. From the onset of the Cold War in 1948 through 1963, they asked: What defined the essential character of “American culture”? Could permanent moral standards guide human conduct ami
Deborah Paredez's Year of the Dog
In the tradition of women as the unsung keepers of history, Deborah Paredez’s second poetry collection tells her story as a Latina daughter of the Vietnam War. The title refers to the year 1970—the Year of the Metal Dog in the lunar calendar—which was the year of the author’s birth, the year her father prepared to deploy to Vietnam along with many other Mexican-American immigrant soldiers, and a y
Elleni Centime Zeleke's Ethiopia in Theory: Revolution and Knowledge Production, 1964-2016
Between the years 1964 and 1974, Ethiopian post-secondary students studying at home, in Europe, and in North America produced a number of journals where they explored the relationship between social theory and social change within the project of building a socialist Ethiopia. Ethiopia in Theory examines the literature of this student movement, together with the movement’s afterlife in Ethiopian po
Maggie Cao's The End of Landscape in Nineteenth-Century America
New Books at the Heyman Center: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.
The End of Landscape in Nineteenth-Century America examines the dissolution of landscape painting in the late nineteenth-century United States. Maggie M. Cao explores the pictorial practices that challenged, mourned, or revised the conventions of landscape pa
Adam Tooze's Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
New Books at the Heyman Center: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.
From a prizewinning economic historian, an eye-opening reinterpretation of the 2008 economic crisis (and its ten-year aftermath) as a global event that directly led to the shockwaves being felt around the world today.
In September 2008 President George Bush
Wael Hallaq's Restating Orientalism: A Critique of Modern Knowledge
New Books at SOF/Heyman: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.
In this landmark theoretical investigation, Wael B. Hallaq reevaluates and deepens the critique of Orientalism in order to deploy it for rethinking the foundations of the modern project. Refusing to isolate or scapegoat Orientalism, Restating Orientalism extends the
Adam Reich and Peter Bearman's Working for Respect: Community and Conflict at Walmart
New Books at SOF/Heyman: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.
Walmart is the largest employer in the world. It encompasses nearly 1 percent of the entire American workforce—young adults, parents, formerly incarcerated people, retirees. Walmart also presents one possible future of work—Walmartism—in which the arbitrary authorit
Claudio Lomnitz's Nuestra América: utopía y persistencia de una familia judía
New Books at SOF/Heyman: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.
Claudio Lomnitz's most recent book, Nuestra América, is an essay on the story of his maternal grandparents-- and to some degree the story of his father. It starts with a shipwreck, a story of language loss. A reflection on why he lacks four of the languages that w
Maria Victoria Murillo & Ernesto Calvo's Non-Policy Politics
New Books at SOF/Heyman: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.
Calvo and Murillo consider the non-policy benefits that voters consider when deciding their vote. While parties advertise policies, they also deliver non-policy benefits in the form of competent economic management, constituency service, and patronage jobs. Differen
Will Slauter's Who Owns the News: A History of Copyright
New Books at SOF/Heyman: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.
You can't copyright facts, but is news a category unto itself? Without legal protection for the "ownership" of news, what incentive does a news organization have to invest in producing quality journalism that serves the public good? This book explores the intertwine
Ilana Feldman's Life Lived in Relief: Humanitarian Predicaments and Palestinian Refugee Politics
New Books at SOF/Heyman: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.
Palestinian refugees’ experience of protracted displacement is among the lengthiest in history. In her breathtaking new book, Ilana Feldman explores this community’s engagement with humanitarian assistance over a seventy-year period and their persistent efforts to a
Murad Idris' War for Peace: Genealogies of a Violent Ideal in Western and Islamic Thought
New Books at SOF/Heyman: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.
Peace is a universal ideal, but its political life is a great paradox: "peace" is the opposite of war, but it also enables war. If peace is the elimination of war, then what does it mean to wage war for the sake of peace? What does peace mean when some say that they
Gil Eyal's The Crisis of Expertise
New Books at SOF/Heyman: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.
In recent political debates there has been a significant change in the valence of the word “experts” from a superlative to a near pejorative, typically accompanied by a recitation of experts’ many failures and misdeeds. In topics as varied as Brexit, climate change
Mariusz Kozak's Enacting Musical Time: The Bodily Experience of New Music
New Books at SOF/Heyman: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.
What is musical time? Where is it manifested? How does it enter into our experience, and how do we capture it in our analyses? A compelling approach among works on temporality, phenomenology, and the ecologies of the new sound worlds, Enacting Musical Time argues th
Jennifer Wenzel's The Disposition of Nature: Environmental Crisis and World Literature
New Books at SOF/Heyman: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.
How do literature and other cultural forms shape how we imagine the planet, for better or worse? In this rich, original, and long awaited book, Jennifer Wenzel tackles the formal innovations, rhetorical appeals, and sociological imbrications of world literature that
Stephanie McCurry's Women’s War: Fighting and Surviving the American Civil War
New Books at SOF/Heyman: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.
When the war broke out, Union soldiers assumed Confederate women would be innocent noncombatants. Experience soon challenged this simplistic belief. Through a trio of dramatic stories, Stephanie McCurry reveals the vital and sometimes confounding roles women played
Marianne Hirsch & Leo Spitzer's School Photos in Liquid Time: Reframing Difference
New Books at SOF/Heyman: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.
From clandestine images of Jewish children isolated in Nazi ghettos and Japanese American children incarcerated in camps to images of Native children removed to North American boarding schools, classroom photographs of schoolchildren are pervasive even in repressive
Sarah Cole's Inventing Tomorrow: H. G. Wells and the Twentieth Century
New Books at SOF/Heyman: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.
In Inventing Tomorrow, Sarah Cole provides a definitive account of Wells’s work and ideas. She contends that Wells casts new light on modernism and its values: on topics from warfare to science to time, his work resonates both thematically and aesthetically with som
Brendan O'Flaherty and Rajiv Sethi's Shadows of Doubt: Stereotypes, Crime, & the Pursuit of Justice
New Books at SOF/Heyman: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.
Shadows of Doubt reveals how deeply stereotypes distort our interactions, shape crime, and deform the criminal justice system. If you’re a robber, how do you choose your victims? As a police officer, how afraid are you of the young man you’re about to arrest? As a j
Sharon Marcus' The Drama of Celebrity
New Books at SOF/Heyman: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.
In this fascinating and deeply researched book, Sharon Marcus challenges everything you thought you knew about our obsession with fame. Icons are not merely famous for being famous; the media alone cannot make or break stars; fans are not simply passive dupes. Inste
Stathis Gourgouris' The Perils of the One
New Books at SOF/Heyman: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.
In The Perils of the One, Stathis Gourgouris offers a philosophical anthropology that confronts the legacy of “monarchical thinking”: the desire to subjugate oneself to unitary principles and structures, whether political, moral, theological, or secular. In wide-ran
Nara B. Milanich's Paternity: The Elusive Quest for the Father
New Books at SOF/Heyman: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.
The new science of paternity, with methods such as blood typing, fingerprinting, and facial analysis, would bring clarity to the conundrum of fatherhood—or so it appeared. Suddenly, it would be possible to establish family relationships, expose adulterous affairs, l
James Zetzel's Critics, Compilers, and Commentators: An Introduction to Roman Philology
New Books at the Heyman Center: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.
"To teach correct Latin and to explain the poets" were the two standard duties of Roman teachers. Not only was a command of literary Latin a prerequisite for political and social advancement, but a sense of Latin's history and importance contributed to the Ro
Nico Baumbach's Cinema/Politics/Philosophy
New Books at the Heyman Center: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.
Almost fifty years ago, Jean-Louis Comolli and Jean Narboni published the manifesto “Cinema/Ideology/Criticism,” helping to set the agenda for a generation of film theory that used cinema as a means of critiquing capitalist ideology. In recent decades, film s
Pier Mattia Tommasino's The Venetian Qur'an: A Renaissance Companion to Islam
New Books at the Heyman Center: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.
An anonymous book appeared in Venice in 1547 titled L'Alcorano di Macometto, and, according to the title page, it contained "the doctrine, life, customs, and laws [of Mohammed] . . . newly translated from Arabic into the Italian language." Were this true, L'A
Konstantina Zanou's Transnational Patriotism in the Mediterranean, 1800-1850
New Books at the Heyman Center: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.
Transnational Patriotism in the Mediterranean investigates the long process of transition from a world of empires to a world of nation-states by narrating the biographies of a group of people who were born within empires but came of age surrounded by the emer
Hamid Dabashi's The Shahnameh: The Persian Epic as World Literature
New Books at the Heyman Center: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.
The Shahnameh: The Persian Epic as World Literature
By: Hamid Dabashi
The Shahnameh, an epic poem recounting the foundation of Iran across mythical, heroic, and historical ages, is the beating heart of Persian literature and culture. Composed by Abu al-Qasem
Brinkley Messick's Shari'a Scripts: A Historical Anthropology
New Books at the Heyman Center: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.
Shari'a Scripts: A Historical Anthropology
By: Brinkley Messick
A case study in the textual architecture of the venerable legal and ethical tradition at the center of the Islamic experience, Sharīʿa Scripts is a work of historical anthropology focused on Yem
The Trilling Tapes: Lauren Berlant
In the first episode of "The Trilling Tapes," the scholar Lauren Berlant talks live about her new project: an analysis about the affect of humorlessness in politics. Featuring the scholar Bruce Robbins as a guest interlocutor and host Olivia Rutigliano.
The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University is home to the Lionel Trilling Seminars, established in 1976 t
Alan Stewart's The Oxford History of Life Writing: Volume 2. Early Modern
New Books at the Heyman Center: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.
The Oxford History of Life Writing: Volume 2. Early Modern
By: Alan Stewart
The Oxford History of Life-Writing: Volume 2. Early Modern explores life-writing in England between 1500 and 1700, and argues that this was a period which saw remarkable innovations
Eric Klinenberg's Palaces for the People (full event audio)
New Books at the Heyman Center: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.
We are living in a time of deep divisions. Americans are sorting themselves along racial, religious, and cultural lines, leading to a level of polarization that the country hasn’t seen since the Civil War. Pundits and politicians are calling for us to come to
Ana Paulina Lee's Mandarin Brazil; Race, Representation, and Memory
New Books at the Heyman Center: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.
Mandarin Brazil; Race, Representation, and Memory
By: Ana Paulina Lee
In Mandarin Brazil, Ana Paulina Lee explores the centrality of Chinese exclusion to the Brazilian nation-building project, tracing the role of cultural representation in producing racializ
A Conversation with Cory Doctorow (full event audio)
New Books at the Heyman Center: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.
A special edition of our series, hear the full event featuring Cory Doctorow from September 2018.
Cory Doctorow and Dennis Tenen, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, have a conversation about science fiction, the changing material con
Souleymane Bachir Diagne's Open to Reason
New Books at the Heyman Center: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.
Open to Reason: Muslim Philosophers in Conversation with the Western Tradition
By: Souleymane Bachir Diagne
What does it mean to be a Muslim philosopher, or to philosophize in Islam? In Open to Reason, Souleymane Bachir Diagne traces Muslims’ intellectual an
Joseph Howley's Aulus Gellius and Roman Reading Culture
New Books at the Heyman Center: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.
Aulus Gellius and Roman Reading Culture: Text, Presence, and Imperial Knowledge in the Noctes Atticae
By: Joseph Howley
Long a source for quotations, fragments, and factoids, the Noctes Atticae of Aulus Gellius offers hundreds of brief but vivid glimpses of
Erik Gray's The Art of Love Poetry
New Books at the Heyman Center: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.
The Art of Love Poetry
By: Erik Gray
-The first volume to offer an integral theory of love poetry that explores why poetry is consistently associated with romantic love
-Offers close readings of numerous love poems to guide readers to a deeper appreciation
Caitlin Gillespie's Boudica: Warrior Woman of Roman Britain
New Books at the Heyman Center: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.
Boudica: Warrior Woman of Roman Britain
By: Caitlin Gillespie
In AD 60/61, Rome almost lost the province of Britain to a woman. Boudica, wife of the client king Prasutagus, fomented a rebellion that proved catastrophic for Camulodunum (Colchester), Londinium
Mark Taylor's Last Works: Lessons in Leaving
New Books at the Heyman Center: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.
Living in the shadow of death may enhance the gift of life.
In 2006, Taylor (Religion/Columbia Univ.; Speed Limits: Where Time Went and Why We Have So Little Left, 2014, etc.) developed an infection after a biopsy, resulting in septic shock that took a month
Jack Halberstam's Trans: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability
New Books in the Arts and Sciences at Columbia University: a podcast featuring audio from the New Books Series at Columbia University and interviews with the speakers and authors.
Trans: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability
by: Jack Halberstam
In the last decade, public discussions of transgender issues have increased exponentially. However, with this increased visibility has come no
Bernard Harcourt's The Counterrevolution
New Books in the Arts and Sciences at Columbia University: a podcast featuring audio from the New Books Series at Columbia University and interviews with the speakers and authors.
Militarized police officers with tanks and drones. Pervasive government surveillance and profiling. Social media that distract and track us. All of these, contends Bernard Harcourt, are facets of a new and radical gover
Andreas Wimmer's Nation Building: Why Some Countries Come Together While Others Fall Apart
New Books in the Arts and Sciences at Columbia University: a podcast featuring audio from the New Books Series at Columbia University and interviews with the speakers and authors.
Nation Building: Why Some Countries Come Together While Others Fall Apart
by: Andreas Wimmer
Why is national integration achieved in some diverse countries, while others are destabilized by political inequality between
Jenny Davidson's Reading Jane Austen
New Books in the Arts and Sciences at Columbia University: a podcast featuring audio from the New Books Series at Columbia University and interviews with the speakers and authors.
Reading Jane Austen
by Jenny Davidson
Whether you're new to Austen's work or know it backwards and forwards already, this book provides a clear, full and highly engaging account of how Austen's fiction works and why it
Dennis Tenen's Plain Text: The Poetics of Computation
New Books in the Arts and Sciences at Columbia University: a podcast featuring audio from the New Books Series at Columbia University and interviews with the speakers and authors.
Plain Text: The Poetics of Computation
by Dennis Tenen
This book challenges the ways we read, write, store, and retrieve information in the digital age. Computers—from electronic books to smart phones—play an active ro
Bruce Robbins' The Beneficiary
New Books in the Arts and Sciences at Columbia University: a podcast featuring audio from the New Books Series at Columbia University and interviews with the speakers and authors.
The Beneficiary
by Bruce Robbins
From iPhones and clothing to jewelry and food, the products those of us in the developed world consume and enjoy exist only through the labor and suffering of countless others. In his n
Naor Ben-Yehoyada's The Mediterranean Incarnate
New Books in the Arts and Sciences at Columbia University: a podcast featuring audio from the New Books Series at Columbia University and interviews with the speakers and authors.
The Mediterranean Incarnate
by Naor Ben-Yehoyada
In The Mediterranean Incarnate, anthropologist Naor Ben-Yehoyada takes us aboard the Naumachos for a thirty-seven-day voyage in the fishing grounds between Sicily and T
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