Philip Leventhal
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Editor at @ColumbiaUP. I acquire in Film and Media Studies, Journalism, and Literary Studies. Opinions my own.
Joined September 2016
Congratulations to Maggie Hennefeld, author of DEATH BY LAUGHTER, and J. E. Smyth, author of MARY C. MCCALL JR, whose books are finalists for the Wall Award! https://t.co/2UUH8rVM2o
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Congratulations to Jennifer Scappettone on the official publication day of her much-anticipated new book, POETRY AFTER BARBARISM: THE INVENTION OF MOTHERLESS TONGUES & RESISTANCE TO FASCISM. Use the code CUP20 and save 20% https://t.co/29byQTfKCS
#LiteratureNow @ColumbiaUP
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Against a backdrop of xenophobic and ethnonationalist fantasies of linguistic purity, Poetry After Barbarism uncovers a stateless, polyglot poetry of resista... | CUP
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"[F]orcefully connects the modernist aesthetic to the violence of the Middle Passage." -- Simon Gikandi Congratulations to Laura Winkiel on the official publication day of her new book, MODERNISM & THE MIDDLE PASSAGE. https://t.co/n4gzCsSihi
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I'm excited for my next book event @Princeton! I'll be in conversation with my dear friend & fellow @Columbia alum, Autumn Womack. If you'll be in/near Princeton on Monday, October 20th, please join us at 5:00-6:30 in Rabonowitz A17. Thanks @PrincetonAAS & English for having me!
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Finally had time to listen to this excellent interview with Mark Goble about his new book, DOWNTIME: THE 20TH CENTURY IN SLOW MOTION, with Alix Beeston on the New Books Network. https://t.co/zETaSPx9dx.
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Hot off the press! DICTATING REALITY: THE GLOBAL BATTLE TO CONTROL THE NEWS, by Martin Moore and Thomas Colley. Use the coupon code CUP20 and save 20%! https://t.co/WGbqH6mpMq
@ThomasColley @ColumbiaUP
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Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan discusses her new book, OVERDETERMINED, the dynamics that shape contemporary Indian English literature, and the complexities of teaching minoritized literatures in the West on New Books Network. https://t.co/lTh4nVhddg
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This Wednesday, Jennifer Scappettone will be launching her eagerly awaited and timely new book, POETRY AFTER BARBARISM at the Regenstein Library at the University of Chicago. https://t.co/yjSUJhNLPI
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We are pleased to announce that Maebh Long and Matthew Hayward's THE RISE OF PACIFIC LITERATURE is the Winner of the 2025 Modernist Studies Association Book Prize. https://t.co/nvwr4TVrMG
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Tonight at 7 pm! Edward Mendelson discusses his book, THE INNER LIFE OF MRS. DALLOWAY and the new edition of Virginia Woolf's novel from @nyrbclassics with Francesca Wade at @bookculture
https://t.co/pFVyfK5lsy.
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"While there is surely some strategic value in the right-wing capture of CBS, the deep history of conservative animosity against the network suggests to many another possible motive: revenge." -- AJ Bauer, author of the forthcoming MAKING THE LIBERAL MEDIA
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It was once deemed the "Communist Broadcasting System" by conservative activists.
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Looking forward to my book talk @BrynMawrCollege tomorrow at 12:30-2:00pm! Thank you @BlackCatrachoBK for the invitation to share my work with the students, faculty, and broader English & #BlackStudies communities at Bryn Mawr & @haverfordedu ✍🏾📚 #PhillyHereICome
Please join us tomorrow for our second guest of the 25-26 Black Studies Speaker Series @BrynMawrCollege with Dr. @ProfMcInnis on his field-shifting book Afterlives of the Plantation @ColumbiaUP
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🏆Many congratulations to @chouliaraki_l her book 'Wronged' @ColumbiaUP has been awarded both the Outstanding Book Award of the @icahdq & the Best Book Award of @icaptc two of the highest honours in the Media field. ⬇️Read more:
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Professor Lilie Chouliaraki’s Wronged: The Weaponization of Victimhood has won two top ICA awards, praised as a ground-breaking study of politics, media and victimhood.
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Please join us tomorrow for our second guest of the 25-26 Black Studies Speaker Series @BrynMawrCollege with Dr. @ProfMcInnis on his field-shifting book Afterlives of the Plantation @ColumbiaUP
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"Jacobson promotes an unsettled perspective on the relationship between the film text and its mode of production." New in review, Parker Stenseth on Brian Jacobson's The Cinema of Extractions: https://t.co/SyKAj4RTQF
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Gaza's journalists are starved, displaced, killed — yet continue to report from one of the most dangerous places on Earth. https://t.co/a5lwrmw8BD
niemanreports.org
A record number of journalists have been killed in the Israel-Hamas war, most of them Palestinians covering Gaza
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I was honored to be inducted into the Martin Luther King, Jr. Collegium of Scholars @Morehouse College. The Collegium recognizes “individuals [who] have demonstrated and are evolving toward great achievement in their chosen vocation, a profound commitment to their community…
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Big news! After 15 years of championing African books, Brittle Paper’s founder Dr. @ainehiedoro is stepping into the spotlight with her first book! 🥳🥳 Forest Imaginaries: How African Novels Think arrives Jan 2026 from @ColumbiaUP. #AfricanLiterature
https://t.co/1ajn90SdkJ
brittlepaper.com
After fifteen years sharing African books with readers the world over, Brittle Paper’s founding editor, Dr. Ainehi Edoro, is publishing her first book. Forest Imaginaries: How African Novels Think...
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On November 3, join Jennifer Scappettone as she discusses her highly anticipated new book POETRY AFTER BARBARISM: THE INVENTION OF MOTHERLESS TONGUES & RESISTANCE TO FASCISM at Public Trust. https://t.co/nrQM2EeBqu
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Hot off the press! POETRY AFTER BARBARISM: THE INVENTION OF MOTHERLESS TONGUES & RESISTANCE TO FASCISM, by Jennifer Scappettone. Use the code CUP20 and save 20%: https://t.co/VfrAJV2aRK
@ColumbiaUP #LiteratureNow
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