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Toby Talbot, co-owner and proud "matron" of the New Yorker Theater, reveals the story behind Manhattan's wild and wonderful affair with art-house film. With her husband Dan, Talbot showcased a range of eclectic films, introducing French New Wave and New German cinema, along with other groundbreaking genres and styles.
W...ith the opening of the New Yorker Theater, a cinema located at the heart of Manhattan's Upper West Side, cutting-edge films from around the world were screened for an eager audience, including the city's most influential producers, directors, critics, and writers. Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, Susan Sontag, Andrew Sarris, and Pauline Kael, among many others, would make the New Yorker their home, trusting in the owners' impeccable taste and incorporating much of what they viewed into their work.
Columbia University Press Read Gary Steiner's recent NYT op-ed, "Animal, Vegetable, Miserable." Steiner considers the use of animals for human consumption as well as veganism.
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The free-range turkey debate ignores whether it’s wrong to kill animals for human consumption at all.
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The blog Mixed Multitudes just posted an interview with Elliot Wolfson in which he discusses the relationship between Jewish mysticism and Jewish philosophy.
Wolfson is most recently the author of "Open Secret Postmessianic Messianism and the Mystical Revision of Menahem Mendel Schneerson"
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Elliot R. Wolfson is the Abraham Lieberman Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University, where he teaches courses in mysticism, Kabbalah, and the philosophy of religion. Two of his books, ...
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We've posted some videos of noted illustrator David Allen Sibley on how to draw an osprey.
David Allen Sibley's lovely illustrations can also be found in our new book Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems about Birds.
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Earlier this month Amazon’s blog Omnivoracious wrote a post about a recent visit by David Allen Sibley to their offices.
Columbia University Press Another very good review of Utopia or Auschwitz: Germany’s 1968 Generation and the Holocaust. This time from the New Statesman.
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Earlier this year, before Angela Merkel's re-election as chancellor, the BBC's then Europe editor, Mark Mardell, called Germany "the most grown-up country in the world". Whether you share that ...
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Book Patrol, the book blog for the Seattle PI, named "The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control," as one of the Best Books about Books for 2009.
See what they have to say about the book and some of the other excellent choices.
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Welcome to Book Patrol's inaugural list of our favorite books about books of the year. The list is in no particular order; for all of them are worth a read, and as you will see, in the year the e-book took off, books about books were very much alive.
Columbia University Press Beliefnet recently published a glowing review of Mark C. Taylor's new book Field Notes from Elsewhere: Reflections on Living and Dying." The review calls the book a "must read" and Mark Taylor, a "a mix of philosopher, metaphysician, and medical theologian."
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Columbia University Press We will add it to our facebook page soon but for now, visit our Youtube channel to watch a video with Toby Talbot discussing her new book/memoir "The New Yorker Theater and Other Scenes from a Life at the Movies."
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Toby Talbot discusses her new book The New Yorker Theater and Other Scenes from a Life at the Movies. Toby Talbot, co-owner and proud "matron" of the New Yorker Theater, reveals the story behind Manhattan's wild and wonderful affair with art-house film. ...
Columbia University Press R. Glenn Hubbard, author of "The Aid Trap: Hard Truths About Ending Poverty," was recently on CNBC with Maria Bartiromo to discuss his book and the need for a new Marshall Plan for the world's poorest countries.
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Columbia University Press Le Monde Diplomatique has a podcast interview (in English) with Patrick Porter, author of "Military Orientalism: Eastern War Through Western Eyes." In the interview, Porter discusses a recent article he wrote about the U.S. war in Afghanistan.
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Patrick Porter talks to George Miller about his article in November's Le Monde diplomatique, “Culture wars in Afghanistan”. He explains that the US has suddenly realised it needs to better understand the Taliban, but has failed to do so. download (MP3, 15.7 Mb)
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Tomorrow night (11/11): Isabella Rossellini (!) will join Toby Talbot to discuss her new book, "The New Yorker Theater and Other Scenes from a Life at the Movies."
The event will be at the Barnes & Noble at 1972 Broadway (66th street) at 7:30 pm.
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The New Yorker Theater and Other Scenes from a Life at the Movies by Toby Talbot was just reviewed in The East Hampton Star, which said the book “will certainly appeal to film buffs, to New Yorkers, and to celebrity watchers. And there are valuable materials for cinematic historians as well.”
Columbia University Press Greg Robinson discusses how his recent book sheds new light on on the internment of Japanese in North America during World War II.
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Authors' own takes on the core arguments, contexts, nature of detail & significance of some of the best intellectual nonfiction.
Columbia University Press Win a free box of Columbia University Press books! Find out how at our blog. First 12 people to respond win! Tell your friends!
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As you can imagine happens at a book publishing company, we’ve got quite a lot of book lovers working here. And they collect books in their offices — a lot of great books. We’re doing a big fall ...
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In light of a recent, high-profile arrest of a suspected Jewish terrorist in Israel, we've posted an excerpt from Ami Pedahzur and Arie Perliger's new book Jewish Terrorism in Israel.
The excerpt recounts the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin.
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The recent arrest of Yaakov Teitel for allegedly carrying out a series of domestic acts of terror in Israel is a reminder of the persistent existence of Jewish terrorism.
