by Ben Hooyman | Mar 13, 2026 | Awards, ECEC, Humanities, News, Read
Ofer Dynes (Leonard Kaye Assistant Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, Department of Slavic Languages) has won a 2025 Jordan Schnitzer First Book Award for his forthcoming book “The Fiction of the State: The Partitions of Poland and the Beginning of...
by Ben Hooyman | Feb 20, 2026 | News, Read, Russia
Columbia Slavic alums Max Lawton and Bradley Gorski have been awarded book prizes at the 2026 AATSEEL conference in New Orleans, LA. Max Lawton won for the Best Prose Translation into English for his “Red Pyramid: Selected Stories” by Vladimir Sorokin...
by Ben Hooyman | Feb 19, 2026 | News, Read, Russia
Columbia Global’s latest edition of the In Our View series features Alexander Cooley’s recent book “Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics,” co-written with Alexander Dukalskis. The feature addresses several...
by Ben Hooyman | Feb 16, 2026 | News, Read, Russia
Plunkett Lake Press has reissued “Special Envoy to Churchill and Stalin, 1941-46,” an account of W. Averell Harriman’s years as President Roosevelt’s personal envoy to Britain at the outset of World War II, and as the ambassador to the Soviet...
by Ben Hooyman | Jan 30, 2026 | Central Asia, Humanities, News, Russia
The work of Polish-American poet Anna Frajlich (Emerita of the Department of Slavic Languages at Columbia University) was recently featured in a Russian-language release by the Kyrgyzstan Polish Society. Kyrgyzstan is the poet’s birthplace, making the...
