Philip Leventhal
@philipleventhal.bsky.social
Editor at Columbia University Press. I acquire in Film and Media Studies, Journalism, and Literary Studies. Opinions my own.
"We are keepers of canon and critique, of traditions and interventions, of discipline-specific discourses and a robust legacy of public engagement."
Ragini Srinivasan, author of OVERDETERMINED, on the importance of literature teachers in an age of AI. bit.ly/4rBLgsa @columbiaup.bsky.social
Ragini Srinivasan, author of OVERDETERMINED, on the importance of literature teachers in an age of AI. bit.ly/4rBLgsa @columbiaup.bsky.social
Actually, It’s a Good Time to Be an English Prof (opinion)
No, really.
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December 3, 2025 at 9:15 PM
"We are keepers of canon and critique, of traditions and interventions, of discipline-specific discourses and a robust legacy of public engagement."
Ragini Srinivasan, author of OVERDETERMINED, on the importance of literature teachers in an age of AI. bit.ly/4rBLgsa @columbiaup.bsky.social
Ragini Srinivasan, author of OVERDETERMINED, on the importance of literature teachers in an age of AI. bit.ly/4rBLgsa @columbiaup.bsky.social
Congratulations to Sunny Xiang, author of TONAL INTELLIGENCE, on receiving a grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for her article, “Asian American Art During the First Intifada” bit.ly/4q5nqDN @columbiaup.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Congratulations to Sunny Xiang, author of TONAL INTELLIGENCE, on receiving a grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for her article, “Asian American Art During the First Intifada” bit.ly/4q5nqDN @columbiaup.bsky.social
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You can buy a ton of sick books from @columbiaup.bsky.social at cup.columbia.edu/cyber-monday/
December 1, 2025 at 1:34 PM
You can buy a ton of sick books from @columbiaup.bsky.social at cup.columbia.edu/cyber-monday/
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For this so-called "Cyber Monday," @columbiaup.bsky.social is offering all of its titles--including my own Cold War Modernists--at a 50% discount! At this price, you can't afford not to get yourself and everyone on your holiday shopping list a copy, can you?
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Cold War Modernists | Columbia University Press
European intellectuals of the 1950s dismissed American culture as nothing more than cowboy movies and the A-bomb. In response, American cultural diplomats tr... | CUP
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December 1, 2025 at 3:56 PM
For this so-called "Cyber Monday," @columbiaup.bsky.social is offering all of its titles--including my own Cold War Modernists--at a 50% discount! At this price, you can't afford not to get yourself and everyone on your holiday shopping list a copy, can you?
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Today! All books in @columbiaup.bsky.social Black Lives in the Diaspora series are 50% off, including THE SOUTHS IN HER by @nimojo.bsky.social; AFTERLIVES OF THE PLANTATION by Jarvis McInnis; and SCATTERED & FUGITIVE THINGS by @lehelton.bsky.social. bit.ly/4rupQx9
December 1, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Today! All books in @columbiaup.bsky.social Black Lives in the Diaspora series are 50% off, including THE SOUTHS IN HER by @nimojo.bsky.social; AFTERLIVES OF THE PLANTATION by Jarvis McInnis; and SCATTERED & FUGITIVE THINGS by @lehelton.bsky.social. bit.ly/4rupQx9
Interested in documentary film? Today only, save 50% on all books in @columbiaup.bsky.social's Investigating Visible Evidence series including THE DOCUMENTARY AUDIT, by Pooja Rangan and REVOLUTIONARY BECOMINGS, by Ying Qian. bit.ly/4rupQx9
December 1, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Interested in documentary film? Today only, save 50% on all books in @columbiaup.bsky.social's Investigating Visible Evidence series including THE DOCUMENTARY AUDIT, by Pooja Rangan and REVOLUTIONARY BECOMINGS, by Ying Qian. bit.ly/4rupQx9
Today! All old and new books in @columbiaup.bsky.social's Modernist Latitudes series are 50% off, including REORIENTALISM by Nariman Skakov; STATIC FORMS by Shir Alon; STITCH, UNSTITCH by @kristingrogan.bsky.social; and MODERNISM & THE MIDDLE PASSAGE by Laura Winkiel bit.ly/4rupQx9
December 1, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Today! All old and new books in @columbiaup.bsky.social's Modernist Latitudes series are 50% off, including REORIENTALISM by Nariman Skakov; STATIC FORMS by Shir Alon; STITCH, UNSTITCH by @kristingrogan.bsky.social; and MODERNISM & THE MIDDLE PASSAGE by Laura Winkiel bit.ly/4rupQx9
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If you are at all curious about the ways the mechanisms of the publishing industry influence not just what books are published but how and why they are written, you need to read Dan Sinykin's BIG FICTION.
Today! All old & new books in @columbiaup.bsky.social's Literature Now series are 50% off, including POETRY AFTER BARBARISM by @xenoglossic.bsky.social; POETRY IN GENERAL by @keegancf.bsky.social; BIG FICTION by @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social; and WRITING BACKWARDS by @manshel.bsky.social! bit.ly/4rupQx9
December 1, 2025 at 9:20 PM
If you are at all curious about the ways the mechanisms of the publishing industry influence not just what books are published but how and why they are written, you need to read Dan Sinykin's BIG FICTION.
Today! All old and new books in @columbiaup.bsky.social's Film & Culture series are 50% off, including NOMADIC CINEMA by Alison Griffiths; MAN OF TASTE, by Rob King; THE CINEMA OF EXTRACTIONS by @bleudeciel.bsky.social; and DEATH BY LAUGHTER, by @hennefem.bsky.social! bit.ly/4rupQx9 #CyberMonday
December 1, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Today! All old and new books in @columbiaup.bsky.social's Film & Culture series are 50% off, including NOMADIC CINEMA by Alison Griffiths; MAN OF TASTE, by Rob King; THE CINEMA OF EXTRACTIONS by @bleudeciel.bsky.social; and DEATH BY LAUGHTER, by @hennefem.bsky.social! bit.ly/4rupQx9 #CyberMonday
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Haven't read BIG FICTION? Been waiting for the right time? Need a gift for the fiction-lover in your life. 50% off right now. Go get it babes.
Today! All old & new books in @columbiaup.bsky.social's Literature Now series are 50% off, including POETRY AFTER BARBARISM by @xenoglossic.bsky.social; POETRY IN GENERAL by @keegancf.bsky.social; BIG FICTION by @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social; and WRITING BACKWARDS by @manshel.bsky.social! bit.ly/4rupQx9
December 1, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Haven't read BIG FICTION? Been waiting for the right time? Need a gift for the fiction-lover in your life. 50% off right now. Go get it babes.
Today! All old & new books in @columbiaup.bsky.social's Literature Now series are 50% off, including POETRY AFTER BARBARISM by @xenoglossic.bsky.social; POETRY IN GENERAL by @keegancf.bsky.social; BIG FICTION by @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social; and WRITING BACKWARDS by @manshel.bsky.social! bit.ly/4rupQx9
December 1, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Today! All old & new books in @columbiaup.bsky.social's Literature Now series are 50% off, including POETRY AFTER BARBARISM by @xenoglossic.bsky.social; POETRY IN GENERAL by @keegancf.bsky.social; BIG FICTION by @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social; and WRITING BACKWARDS by @manshel.bsky.social! bit.ly/4rupQx9
Today! Save 50%-70% on all @columbiaup.bsky.social books in journalism studies, including THE TECH-MEDIA HYBRID, by Qun Wang and DICTATING REALITY, by @martinjemoore.bsky.social and ThomasColley! bit.ly/4rupQx9 #CyberMonday
December 1, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Today! Save 50%-70% on all @columbiaup.bsky.social books in journalism studies, including THE TECH-MEDIA HYBRID, by Qun Wang and DICTATING REALITY, by @martinjemoore.bsky.social and ThomasColley! bit.ly/4rupQx9 #CyberMonday
Today! Save 50%-70% off on all @columbiaup.bsky.social
books in film studies, including DOWNTIME, by @goblemark.bsky.social; HOLLYWOOD'S OTHERS, by @fuscowrites.bsky.social; MY AFFAIR WITH ART HOUSE CINEMA, by Phillip Lopate, and MARY C. MCCALL, by @jesmyth.co.uk! bit.ly/4rupQx9 #CyberMonday
books in film studies, including DOWNTIME, by @goblemark.bsky.social; HOLLYWOOD'S OTHERS, by @fuscowrites.bsky.social; MY AFFAIR WITH ART HOUSE CINEMA, by Phillip Lopate, and MARY C. MCCALL, by @jesmyth.co.uk! bit.ly/4rupQx9 #CyberMonday
December 1, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Today! Save 50%-70% off on all @columbiaup.bsky.social
books in film studies, including DOWNTIME, by @goblemark.bsky.social; HOLLYWOOD'S OTHERS, by @fuscowrites.bsky.social; MY AFFAIR WITH ART HOUSE CINEMA, by Phillip Lopate, and MARY C. MCCALL, by @jesmyth.co.uk! bit.ly/4rupQx9 #CyberMonday
books in film studies, including DOWNTIME, by @goblemark.bsky.social; HOLLYWOOD'S OTHERS, by @fuscowrites.bsky.social; MY AFFAIR WITH ART HOUSE CINEMA, by Phillip Lopate, and MARY C. MCCALL, by @jesmyth.co.uk! bit.ly/4rupQx9 #CyberMonday
Today! Save 50%-70% on all @columbiaup.bsky.social books in literary studies, including THE INNER MRS. DALLOWAY, by Edward Mendelson; OVERDETERMINED, by Ragini Srinivasan; THE CLASSROOM & THE CROWD, by @afilreis.bsky.social and PEOPLE'S CHOICE LITERATURE, by @tomcomitta.bsky.social! bit.ly/4rupQx9
December 1, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Today! Save 50%-70% on all @columbiaup.bsky.social books in literary studies, including THE INNER MRS. DALLOWAY, by Edward Mendelson; OVERDETERMINED, by Ragini Srinivasan; THE CLASSROOM & THE CROWD, by @afilreis.bsky.social and PEOPLE'S CHOICE LITERATURE, by @tomcomitta.bsky.social! bit.ly/4rupQx9
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This is a good time to support books in the "Black Lives in the Diaspora" series, a collaboration between Howard University and Columbia University Press! #thesouthsinher #tsih
Shop big savings! Cyber Monday sale is here! 70% off select books + all others 50% off. Deal ends at midnight ET. @agendapub.bsky.social @columbiabusiness.bsky.social @fernpub.bsky.social @transcript-verlag.bsky.social @barbarabudrich.bsky.social @columbiagsapp.bsky.social @Columbia
Cyber Monday | Columbia University Press
2025 Cyber Monday Sale The sale begins on December 1, 2025, at 12:00 AM EST and ends at 11:59 PM EST, December 1, 2025. Discounts will be automatically applied at checkout. Sale prices cannot be combined...
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December 1, 2025 at 3:55 PM
This is a good time to support books in the "Black Lives in the Diaspora" series, a collaboration between Howard University and Columbia University Press! #thesouthsinher #tsih
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Cyber Monday sale today at @columbiaup.bsky.social -- 50% off all books. Including my Jennifer Egan book, the B-Side Books collection (that I have an essay in-- on Sylvia Townsend Warner)... and many other great books that I have nothing to do with...
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December 1, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Cyber Monday sale today at @columbiaup.bsky.social -- 50% off all books. Including my Jennifer Egan book, the B-Side Books collection (that I have an essay in-- on Sylvia Townsend Warner)... and many other great books that I have nothing to do with...
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10 yrs later... my book is 50% off ALL DAY in @columbiaup.bsky.social's cyber monday sale!
December 1, 2025 at 3:09 PM
10 yrs later... my book is 50% off ALL DAY in @columbiaup.bsky.social's cyber monday sale!
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I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University
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The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review
Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.
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November 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University
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Cyber Monday is a terrible name but @columbiaup.bsky.social is a great press and my book will be on sale for %50 off. All the slow motion for half the price!
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Downtime | Columbia University Press
Slow motion has become perhaps the least special effect in film and media, a stylistic technique for showing violence, dream sequences, and flashbacks or oth... | CUP
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November 29, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Cyber Monday is a terrible name but @columbiaup.bsky.social is a great press and my book will be on sale for %50 off. All the slow motion for half the price!
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if you haven't died from laughter by the end of the holiday weekend, you can give it another go via @columbiaup.bsky.social's Cyber Monday sale -- all books 50% off, 1 day only, Dec 1st, don't miss it!!! (hehehehehe....) 📚🤣☠️
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November 26, 2025 at 5:43 PM
if you haven't died from laughter by the end of the holiday weekend, you can give it another go via @columbiaup.bsky.social's Cyber Monday sale -- all books 50% off, 1 day only, Dec 1st, don't miss it!!! (hehehehehe....) 📚🤣☠️
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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
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
"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: 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
"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: 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
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
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
"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...
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
"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...
Very good interview w/ Matthew Hart, the new chair of English at Columbia. news.columbia.edu/news/matthew...
"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
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
"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
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