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Philip Leventhal
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Editor at Columbia University Press. I acquire in Film and Media Studies, Journalism, and Literary Studies. Opinions my own.
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Listen to an excellent discussion with Ying Qian about her book, REVOLUTIONARY BECOMINGS: DOCUMENTARY MEDIA IN 20TH CENTURY CHINA, part of the @sofheyman.bsky.social series. tinyurl.com/mr3ubefk @columbiaup.bsky.social
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 fi
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November 25, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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"Compelling and persuasive.... A valuable primer for our dark times." -- Luke Harding

DICTATING REALITY: THE GLOBAL BATTLE TO CONTROL NEWS, by @martinjemoore.bsky.social and Thomas Colley. Use the coupon code CUP20 and save 20%! bit.ly/3Xbzab9 @columbiaup.bsky.social
Dictating Reality | Columbia University Press
From the United States to China and from Brazil to India, an authoritarian approach to news is spreading across the world. Increasingly, the media is no long... | CUP
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November 25, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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On Monday, December 1, Columbia University Press will be selling all books at 50% off! (And some books at 70%!) tinyurl.com/7wzhyfmv @columbiaup.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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"We are diminished, as people, by the ugliness that surrounds us much of the time; the study of art reminds us that ugliness isn’t inevitable."

Very good interview w/ Matthew Hart, the new chair of English at Columbia. news.columbia.edu/news/matthew...
Matthew Hart Is the New Chair of English and Comparative Literature
Contrary to headlines claiming “The End of the English Major,” Hart is proud to say that enrollments at Columbia “are higher than they’ve been in years!”
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November 24, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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"An important exploration of how Black women artists have used self-expression to counter misperceptions...." -- Soyica Diggs Colbert

Now available! THE SOUTHS IN HER, by Nicole M. Morris Johnson. Use the code CUP20 and save 20% bit.ly/4ptNurC @nimojo.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
The Souths in Her | Columbia University Press
Since the Middle Passage, the intellectual and physical freedom of Black women in the United States and the Caribbean has been constrained. Yet Black women w... | CUP
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November 24, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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NEW in MER: Identity and Cultural Diplomacy in the Abraham Accords

Shir Alon on the shifting definitions of Arabness and Jewishness as a result of normalization.
Identity and Cultural Diplomacy of the Abraham Accords
In December 2020, three months after the Abraham Accords were signed enabling the first commercial flights between Israel and the UAE, a short video went modestly viral on Israeli twitter. A man in a…
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November 3, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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STATIC FORMS: WRITING THE PRESENT IN THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST, by Shir Alon, is one of many amazing new books in Middle East studies from @columbiaup.bsky.social. Use the discount code MESA and save 30%. buff.ly/RMtSmQ9 #MESA2025 #ModernistLatitudes
November 24, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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Anna Shechtman and D.A. Miller on the gross, long, shitty, and brilliant films of Radu Jude
Shithole Cinema | Anna Shechtman, D. A. Miller
In Radu Jude’s Romania, people don’t have a good word to say about the country or its citizens; on the contrary, they curse the place with a vehemence as
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November 20, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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We found AI produces fake ‘expert’ quotes for questionable websites - including our own director… @dmil.bsky.social @cj-robinson.bsky.social @emilybell.bsky.social

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When the pink-slime researchers become the pink slime.
We love to hear when journalists engage with our research, so in October, we set up an LLM agent to sort through Google Alerts for Tow Center’s work and notify us when our research is cited in news. T...
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November 20, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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PEOPLE'S CHOICE LITERATURE: The Most Wanted and Unwanted Novels by TOM COMITTA via @columbiaup.bsky.social is a fascinating test of the horror of AI in literature.
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PEOPLE'S CHOICE LITERATURE: The Most Wanted and Unwanted Novels...fascinating!
PEOPLE'S CHOICE LITERATURE: The Most Wanted and Unwanted Novels TOM COMITTA Columbia University Press ( non-affiliate Bookshop.org lin...
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November 19, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Register today! 📚
Join @aft.org President @rweingarten.bsky.social & @dianeravitch.bsky.social for a conversation on An Education. Once a supporter of high-stakes testing, she now advocates for strong public schools. Dec 7, 6:15 PM ET 👉 https://sharemylesson.com/webinars/aft-book-club-diane-ravitch
November 19, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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On Thursday, Nov. 20th at 6:15, join Thomas Colley and Martin Moore for the launch of their amazing new book, DICTATING REALITY: THE GLOBAL BATTLE TO CONTROL THE NEWS at King's College. bit.ly/43hRFhK @martinjemoore.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
Dictating Reality: The Global Battle to Control the News (Book Launch) | King's College London
Martin Moore and Thomas Colley will discuss their new book, 'Dictating Reality', published with Columbia University Press, which focuses on how states are battling to control and shape the news in ord...
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November 19, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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The blurbs are in!

Thanks to @sidbedingfield.bsky.social, @rickperlstein.bsky.social, and @alicetiara.bsky.social for their generous praise for *Making the Liberal Media* which is due out in March.

Journalists and academics interested in reviewing—hit me up and I'll connect you with my publicist!
Well-written and deeply researched, Making the Liberal Media delivers new and significant insights into how conservative leaders employed the "liberal media" claim to build a movement that came to dominate US politics and policy formation. Bauer is an exceptional storyteller. Sid Bedingfield, author of Newspaper Wars: Civil Rights and White Resistance in South Carolina, 1935-1965 With deep curiosity, creativity, and intellectual skill, A.J. Bauer has unearthed a story about the rise of the right that shifts the paradigm, by placing the habit of criticizing the media at the core of conservative identity. It is full of irony and richness, and utterly convincing. Rick Perlstein, author of Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980 Through meticulous archival research, AJ Bauer shows that “liberal media bias” is not just a slogan, but foundational to modern conservatism. From anti-communism to MAGA, newspapers to Joe Rogan, Making the Liberal Media traces the roots of right-wing media criticism and how it structured and legitimized the modern right. An essential read for understanding how conservative critiques of journalism became a political strategy, an identity marker, and a driver of media innovation. Alice E. Marwick, Director of Research, Data & Society
November 17, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Coming out of very fun conversation on Saturday and I would like to announce that it is wonderful to read and think about Stitch, Unstitch by @kristingrogan.bsky.social, which helps us shape the modernist canon in relation to how poets engage everyday, ordinary labor.
November 17, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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I am full of gratitude for this conversation @redemmas.org on Saturday with @kristingrogan.bsky.social and Chris Nealon. It was such a wonderful way to launch Poetry in General. Thanks to all who came!!
Three people having fun discussing work and poetry.
November 17, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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the best my book has ever looked @redemmas.org
Poster: “no war on venezuela!” Next to stitch, unstitch; sign advertising “tonight”
November 16, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Keegan’s book is just so, so good - on how poetry expresses, refracts, and critiques state-managed capitalism, and how it does this by developing interdisciplinary public forms. I’ve been reading this book all week and cannot wait to talk with Keegan and Chris later today!
November 15, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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This is tonight! I’m very excited about it
November 15, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Alex Katz, Red Tie, 1979
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Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Kozak
November 14, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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For the haters who say Big Fiction over-relies on allegory, my most explicit, spirited defense of allegorical interpretation. "Sociology and Allegory," published as part of a series on the sociology of literature in IASL. Lemme know if you want a PDF
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Sociology and Allegory
The question of the relationship between internal and external analysis of literature remains open across disciplinary inquiries. Although Pierre Bourdieu claims to offer a definitive answer to the qu...
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November 13, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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"Mendelson fixes his erudite scholarly gaze upon the woman behind the novel ... a reminder of the pleasures of reading the novel anew"--Center for Fiction

Use the code CUP20 and save 20% on THE INNER LIFE OF MRS. DALLOWAY, by Edward Mendelson bit.ly/43tcDu2
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The Inner Life of Mrs. Dalloway | Columbia University Press
Mrs. Dalloway is a novel about almost everything. The story of a single day in London after the First World War, it travels backward and forward in time and ... | CUP
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November 14, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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This Saturday at 7 pm, two @columbiaup.bsky.social authors, Keegan Cook Finberg and Kristin Grogan discuss their extraordinary new books, POETRY IN GENERAL and STITCH, UNSTITCH: in conversation w/ Christopher Nealon at @redemmas.org! bit.ly/3LAvRYz @keegancf.bsky.social @kristingrogan.bsky.social
Keegan Cook Finberg and Kristin Grogan present "Poetry in General: How a Literary Form Became Public" and "Stitch, Unstitch Modernist Poetry and the World of Work" in conversation w/ Christopher Nealo...
Join us for an evening of rethinking the power and labor of poetry in everyday spaces.
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November 14, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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my library bought @kristingrogan.bsky.social ’s beautiful book and yours should too
November 13, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Tomorrow (11/14) 1 pm, join Jennifer Scappettone as she talks about her new book POETRY AFTER BARBARISM: THE INVENTION OF MOTHERLESS TONGUES & RESISTANCE TO FASCISM at Brown University. bit.ly/4oCBuEl @xenoglossic.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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Just received the news that a true friend and hero of mine Michael Ray Richardson has passed away. I really have no words. Here is an interview I did with him for The Real News Network last year. Rest in Peace, Ray. 😪 www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK-U...
Michael Ray Richardson: My life after the NBA | Edge of Sports
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November 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM