Editor at Columbia University Press. I acquire in Film and Media Studies, Journalism, and Literary Studies. Opinions my own.
Philip Leventhal
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AI is already leading to heightened preoccupation with authorship in fiction—but debating if an author is human might be distracting us from the real casualty of AI-written fiction, Walt Hunter argues:
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"[A] pathbreaking account of the struggle between American jurists and their Soviet counterparts over the use of film at Nuremberg." -- Lawrence Douglas
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"This brilliant and often moving book models a revelatory methodology for talking about the work of Black archive-building."
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“He bore all the elements of approachability, arranged instead to disconcert.” In n+1, Nicholas Dames writes an excellent essay about William Gass. @nplusonemag.com @njdames.bsky.social
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In a new interview on the @columbiaup.bsky.social blog, Margaret Waller discusses her forthcoming, highly anticipated new book, NAPOLEON'S CLOSET: THE EMPEROR, THE PRIEST, & THE MEN WHO INVENTED MODERN FASHION. bit.ly/4xeFNKR
AI has already changed writing. Now the technology is changing what it means to read.
A nineteenth-century medical manual had a section on what to do at the birth of "monsters." That passage launched a decade of research. Dr. Miriam Rich's first book, Monstrous Conceptions, traces that history. Columbia University Press, July 2026. utmb.us/g0n
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Philip Leventhal
Winner, 2026 Book Prize in Literary and Cultural Studies, American Association for Italian StudiesAgainst a backdrop of xenophobic and ethnonationalist fanta... | CUP
29 May 2026 Lawrence Jones, University of Reading Last year marked the centenary of the publication by The Hogarth Press of one of Virginia Woolf’s most celebrated works: Mrs. Dalloway (1925).[i] I…
"Lindeperg’s magisterial history ... demonstrates how justice and cinema emerge from the push and pull of documentary proof and dramatic stagecraft." -- Sam Di Iorio
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As victory in World War II drew near, the Allies decided to hold a major trial of Nazi leaders, which began in Nuremberg in November 1945. Conflict soon brok... | CUP
If Gass entertained any escape fantasies, however, The Tunnel does not indulge them. It’s the big, the biggest, Man Alone in a House story. It’s an anti–systems novel, uninterested in conspiracist lin...
As victory in World War II drew near, the Allies decided to hold a major trial of Nazi leaders, which began in Nuremberg in November 1945. Conflict soon brok... | CUP
