Skip to main content
  • Arts & Humanities
  • Science & Technology
  • Health & Medicine
  • Alumni
  • On Campus
  • Books
Issues
  • About
  • Subscribe
  • Contact Us
  • School Abbreviations
  • Arts & Humanities
  • Science & Technology
  • Health & Medicine
  • Alumni
  • On Campus
  • Books

Books

How Guardrails and Regulations Stifled American Progress
Why Nothing Works by Marc Dunkelman
Books

How Guardrails and Regulations Stifled American Progress

In Why Nothing Works, Marc J. Dunkelman ’01CC investigates the decline of public-sector innovation from the 1960s through today

Most Popular
The Pacifist's Guide to Satanism
2022_La-Carmina-1

The Pacifist's Guide to Satanism

La Carmina, an award-winning blogger, journalist, and author, offers a spirited defense of the often-misunderstood religion

The Best Way to Stop a Negative-Thought Spiral
1.21_BOOKTALK_art_Brian-Stauffer

The Best Way to Stop a Negative-Thought Spiral

Psychologist Ethan Kross ’07GSAS suggests strategies to root out negative self-talk 

Genius at Work: How Franz Boas Created the Field of Cultural Anthropology
Archive photo of Franz Boas reenacting a Kwakiutl ceremonial dance to assist Smithsonian Institution sculptors building a diorama
Boas reenacts a Kwakiutl ceremonial dance to assist Smithsonian Institution sculptors building a diorama. (Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution Archives)

Genius at Work: How Franz Boas Created the Field of Cultural Anthropology

A century ago, when people believed that human potential was determined by race and gender, a maverick Columbia professor decided everyone was wrong

More Stories

Dorothy Butler Gilliam: A Newsroom Pioneer
BookTalk_Gilliam
Books

Dorothy Butler Gilliam: A Newsroom Pioneer

The Washington Post's first Black woman reporter discusses her new memoir, Trailblazer

Summer 2019 Reading List
Book spines: Please Read this Leaflet Carefully, The New Rules of Pregnancy, Rabbits for Food, Instructions for a Funeral, The General's Cook, The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna
Books

Summer 2019 Reading List

New and noteworthy releases from alumni and faculty

Book Review: "Working"
Cover of "Working" by Robert Caro
Books

Book Review: "Working"

By Robert A. Caro '68JRN

Review: Orange World
Cover of "Orange World" by Karen Russell
Books

Review: Orange World

By Karen Russell '06SOA

Book Review: "Doing Justice"
Preet Bharara next to book cover of "Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law"
Books

Book Review: "Doing Justice"

A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law, by Preet Bharara '93LAW

A Feat of Biblical Proportions
Illustration of Robert Alter
Books

A Feat of Biblical Proportions

Robert Alter ’57CC, a professor of comparative literature at UC Berkeley, has produced a 3,500-page translation of the Hebrew Bible

Review: Tinderbox
Book cover: "Tinderbox"
Books

Review: Tinderbox

By Robert W. Fieseler ’13JRN

Book Review: "Am I Dying?!"
Book cover: "Am I Dying?!"
Books

Book Review: "Am I Dying?!"

By Christopher Kelly ’06CC, ’11PS, ’18PH and Marc Eisenberg ’91CC, ’95PS

Book Review: "How to Hide an Empire"
Book cover: "How to Hide an Empire"
Books

Book Review: "How to Hide an Empire"

By Daniel Immerwahr ’02CC

Your Spring 2019 Reading List
Books by Columbia alumni: "Hark" by Sam Lipsyte, "The Free Speech Century" by Lee Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone, "Honorable Exit" by Thurston Clarke, "American Spy" by Lauren Wilkinson, "More than Words" by Jill Santopolo, "An Anonymous Girl" by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen, "The War Before the War" by Andrew Delbanco
Books

Your Spring 2019 Reading List

New and noteworthy books from alumni and faculty

Tim Wu Explains How Big Tech is Crippling Democracy
Columbia Law professor Tim Wu
Books

Tim Wu Explains How Big Tech is Crippling Democracy

The expert who coined the term “net neutrality” calls for the breakup of big tech, big pharma, and big banks

Reading List: Winter 2018
Books
Books

Reading List: Winter 2018

New and noteworthy releases from alumni and faculty

  • Read More

Stay Connected.

Sign up for our newsletter.

General Data Protection Regulation

Columbia University Privacy Notice

  • Latest Issue
  • Past Issues
  • Arts & Humanities
  • Science & Technology
  • Health & Medicine
  • Alumni Newsmakers
  • On Campus
  • Books
  • About
  • Subscribe
  • Staff
  • Advertising
  • Awards
  • Contact Us
  • School Abbreviations
  • Donate
  • columbia.edu
  • Alumni Association
  • Update Your Information
  • Disability Services

©2025 Columbia University