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We are pleased to announce the release of our Fall 2019 catalog. Please take a moment to explore our forthcoming titles.

Tuesday, May 21 is comment for the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. In honor of the school’s alumni, we are featuring excerpts from The Cairing Heirs of Doctor Samuel Bard on our blog Monday through Friday.

May 20-24 is Russian Literature week. To celebrate, we have co-sponsored free events with Read Russia, and will be featuring books excerpts from our Russian Library series all week.

We will be offering a 30% discount on all of this week’s featured titles. Check our blog each day to get the coupon codes.

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Dr. Karen Kinsell: Making Health Care Happen in the Deep South (May 24, 2019)
Photo credit: Peter Wortsman The only MD in the entire county, tending to the health needs of some 3,600 people. Her patient pool includes many destitute individuals, some of whom cross state lines from nearby Alabama to seek care. Dr. Karen Kinsell ’93 Primary Care Practitioner Master of Public Health Our final spotlight on renown graduates of Columbia University’s Vagelos College
Translating the Untranslatable (May 23, 2019)
Our second #TranslationThursday post brings you an excerpt from Between Dog and Wolf, a novel by Sahsa Sokolov. In honor of of Russian Literature Week, we have shared an excerpts from titles published in our Russian Library series. Russian Literature Week ends tomorrow with an event celebrating Russian literature at Book Culture in New York
Iliazd’s Lost Modernist Masterpiece (May 23, 2019)
All week we have been sharing excerpts from our Russian Library series in honor of Russian Literature Week. Today, for #TranslationThursday, we’re sharing two excerpts for your reading enjoyment. First up, we have an excerpt from Iliazd’s novel Rapture. If you are in New York City, translator Thomas Kitson has curated an exhibit of Iliazd’s
Dr. Davida Coady: Protecting Imperiled Populations (May 23, 2019)
Photo credit: Peter Wortsman Following a long career devoted to the care of the world’s most vulnerable,including refugees, the homeless, and the incarcerated, Dr. Coady succumbed toovarian cancer in 2018. Davida Coady ’65 A Doctor Devoted to the Care of Disadvantaged Children, Refugees, Addicts, and Lifers Pediatrician International health activist Substance-abuse specialist Our spotlight on renown
Linor Goralik Conjures the Everyday Absurd (May 22, 2019)
It’s Russian Literature Week! All this week we are sharing excerpts from our Russian Library series. Today we are sharing an excerpt from Linor Goralik’s collection Found Life: Poems, Stories, Comics, a Play, and an Interview, edited by Ainsley Morse, Maria Vassileva, and Maya Vinokour. If you are in Philadelphia, don’t miss The Man Who Couldn’t

New Titles from Distributed Presses

Studying Horror Cinema
The Informal Economy
Ruth Beckermann
Age of Fear: The Cold War and Its Influence on Czechoslovakia 1945–1968
From Cotton and Smoke
Families in Transition