Five Fascinating Facts About Earth’s Ancient Climate Donald R. Prothero
Earth’s ancient climate reveals a history of extreme transformations—from a greenhouse world of sweltering temperatures and high sea levels to a “snowball earth” in which glaciers reached the equator....
View ArticleAndré Colomer, the Action of the Arts, and the Importance of PoetryOskar De Wolf
– An individualist anarchist? To the uninitiated, it may appear somewhat peculiar that an individualist anarchist is a part of poetry month at the Columbia University Press blog. Anarchism has a...
View ArticlePete Hill on River Profiles
Centuries of mismanagement and destructive development have gravely harmed American waterways, with significant consequences for the ecosystems and communities built around them. In River Profiles: The...
View ArticleThe Power of the Shuar: How a Small Group of Indigenous People Protected...
Affluent farmers and wealthy groups of investors have continued to destroy extensive tracts of tropical forests in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and Latin America over these past forty years. The ongoing...
View ArticleJonathan Chaves on Yanagawa Seigan
Perhaps the largest body of great poetry in the world as yet undiscovered is the verse composed by Japanese authors not in Japanese, but in literary Chinese (C., wenyan; J., bungen). The phenomenon of...
View ArticleWhat’s the Difference Between a Tree and a Building? Sometimes...
The New City: How to Build Our Urban Sustainable Future is about the urban environment and how to make it a safer place for us to live in and, at the same time, dramatically reduce its effects on rapid...
View ArticleMatthew Fraleigh on The Same Moon Shines on All
The last few decades have been a time of great change for the field of Japanese literary studies. The scope of the category “Japanese literature” is very differently conceptualized than it was just a...
View ArticleChanging the Media Environment to Protect Climate Activists Adrienne Russell
Activism serves as an essential channel of communication from the public to policy makers, corporations, and other powerful actors. It is precisely because of its essential role in governance (and...
View ArticleJean Yen-chun Lin on A Spark in the Smokestacks
When author Jean Lin initially approached first-time homeowners of newly built gated communities in Beijing regarding their protests against overflowing landfills and waste incinerator construction...
View ArticleA Systems Thinking Approach to Teaching About Climate Change Cassie Xu and...
Climate change is one of the largest threats for humanity and has already had a significant impact globally and locally. It is perhaps the most defining issue of our time. It will ultimately test how...
View ArticleRoque Raquel Salas Rivera on Translating The Book of Conjurations
Poetry, like alchemy, can promise a material wealth it never quite delivers, transmutation through words, and the power to turn paupers into patrons, but most often promises an alchemy of the soul that...
View ArticleVirginia Hanusik on Into the Quiet and the Light
Into the Quiet and the Light: Water, Life, and Land Loss in South Louisianaoffers a glimpse into the vulnerabilities and possibilities of living on the water during an ongoing climate catastrophe and...
View Article
