description for upper manhattan bookstore crawl. April 19th through April 25th

¡Celebra con nosotros el Día de las Librerías Independientes! Desde el domingo 19 hasta el sábado 25 de abril, consigue un sello por cada compra en cada librería participante.

list of participating bookstores The fountain bookshop Word Up Recirculation Sister's Uptoen Book Culture and Book Culture on Broadway

#UpperManhattanBookstoreCrawl 2026
Celebrate with us for Indie Bookstore Day!

Starting Sun, April 19th through Sat, April 25th, visit participating stores and pick up a stamp card. Receive a stamp by making a purchase at each store. Get all 5 stamps and you could win a bookstore prize pack!

Taiwan Studies Initiative Milk Tea Month: The Milk Tea Alliance Dr. Jeffrey Wasserstrom will give a talk based on his book The Milk Tea Alliance: Inside Asia’s Struggle Against Autocracy and Beijing.

Next Friday (April 24), I'll be back at IU, where I taught for most of the first part of my career, speaking on The Milk Tea Alliance (first time I'll give a live talk where I can hold up a copy of the Taiwan edition) at noon, details of here events.iu.edu/easc/event/2... cc @columbiagr.bsky.social

The Fragile Undersea Cables That Connect Our World | Columbia Global Reports A conversation about the fragile fiber cables that power and connect our modern life

Livestream event!

Join us for a conversation about the backbone of modern life—the robust network of delicate undersea cables that makeup the internet—featuring experts across business, engineering, and journalism.

🗓️ Wed May 6, 12pm ET

Everyone is welcome! Just be sure to register by 5/1 ⤵️

lots of copies of The Burning Ground messily arranged on a table cover design by Kelly Winton

Happy US pub day to THE BURNING GROUND: Oil and Militancy in Nigeria (May 28 in UK)

Noo Saro-Wiwa’s incisive investigation of the oil industry in her home country of Nigeria reveals a haunting tale of corruption in a region struggling with contradiction

⭐ globalreports.columbia.edu/books/the-bu...

It's always great to get learn via Good Reads that someone new has come across, read & liked one's no longer new book/I was gratified to see the March review below of my 2020 @columbiagr.bsky.social book Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink & February review below of my 2025 CGR book The Milk Tea Alliance

Social Media Had Gun-Level Immunity. That Just Ended Podcast Episode · WhoWhatWhy's Podcasts · April 3 · 40m

“It's time we be far more serious about regulation than we have been. And I think the evidence is plain that something has to happen”

@oliviersylvain.bsky.social author of RECLAIMING THE INTERNET talks about holding social media companies accountable on WhoWhatWhy
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

Olivier Sylvain Wants to Reclaim the Internet from Big Tech Justin Hendrix spoke to Sylvain about his new book, Reclaiming the Internet How Big Tech Took Control—and How We Can Take It Back, at Book Culture.

Olivier Sylvain is a professor at Fordham Law School and the author of a new book titled Reclaiming the Internet: How Big Tech Took Control—and How We Can Take It Back, published by Columbia Global Reports. I interviewed him at Book Culture, a bookstore on 112th Street in New York City.

Blood and Oil — The Dial What extraction did to Nigeria.

"In some communities, a generation has grown up without any memory of pristine water or air—and given their lack of education, little reason to mourn it."

Check out @thedialmag.bsky.social for an excerpt from Noo Saro-Wiwa's THE BURNING GROUND (on sale 4/14) ⤵️
www.thedial.world/articles/new...

Reclaiming the Internet | Columbia Global Reports How the Internet lost its way—and how to fix it

I'm happy to report that my book, Reclaiming the Internet (Columbia Global Reports), came out last week. globalreports.columbia.edu/books/reclai...

Why Flying Is Miserable | Columbia Global Reports An eye-opening account of how the airline industry used to operate, what changed to give us the broken system we work within today, and what we can do to fix it.

✈️ learn more about WHY FLYING IS MISERABLE: And How to Fix It
globalreports.columbia.edu/books/why-fl...

Opinion | This Is Why Flying Is So Awful

"The good news is that this mess is not intractable. There is a way out."

@ganeshsitaraman.bsky.social, author of WHY FLYING IS MISERABLE, explains what happened to the airline industry to make flying so awful, for @nytopinion.nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/o...

Blood and Oil — The Dial What extraction did to Nigeria.

1/ Oil extraction has devastated the ecosystem in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, and upended the lives of the communities who depended on it. Noo Saro-Wiwa, a writer from Oginoland, reflects on what it’s like to see your home transformed for “black gold.” www.thedial.world/articles/new...

⭐TOMORROW!⭐

March is #IndiePressMonth!

Celebrate with us and take a journey through the fascinating landscape of Chinese literature with THE SUBPLOT: What China Is Reading and Why It Matters, by journalist Megan Walsh

⭐ get your copy at your favorite indie bookstore https://bookshop.org/a/78888/9781735913667

the cover for Reclaiming the Internet on the left with photos of Olivier Sylvain and Justin Hendrix on the right, with this text below: Olivier Sylvain in conversation with Justin Hendrix Tues. Mar. 24, 7pm, Book Culture

Next Tuesday in NYC!

Join us at Book Culture for a conversation about RECLAIMING THE INTERNET with author Olivier Sylvain and Justin Hendrix, CEO & editor of Tech Policy Press

🗓️ Tues 3/24, 7pm at Book Culture (112th St)

🛜 register now--> forms.gle/pGj7uqgnUsVi...

stacks of copies of The Burning Ground, by Noo Saro-Wiwa, some spine-out, some facing-out so you can see the cover cover design by Kelly Winton

Just arrived at the CGR office!

Early copies of THE BURNING GROUND: Oil and Militancy in Nigeria, by journalist Noo Saro-Wiwa

✨ On sale April 14, but available for preorder now!
globalreports.columbia.edu/books/the-burning-ground

🚨📚 New book alert 🚨📚

"Reclaiming the Internet: How Big Tech Took Control—and How We Can Take It Back" (Columbia Global Reports - @columbiagr.bsky.social) by Fordham Law Professor Olivier Sylvain (@oliviersylvain.bsky.social) is out today.

DC! NYC! Come see Olivier talk about his book:

➡️ TOMORROW Wed 3/18, 7pm Politics & Prose at The Wharf, DC
with @nancyscola.bsky.social
learn more: politics-prose.com/olivier-sylv...

➡️ next Tue 3/24, 7pm @bookculture.com NYC
with @justinhendrix.bsky.social
register now: forms.gle/pGj7uqgnUsVi...

D.C. people, I'll be in conversation this Wednesday night at the @politicsprose.bsky.social on the Wharf with Fordham Law's @oliviersylvain.bsky.social about his brand-new book, "Reclaiming the Internet: How Big Tech Took Control—and How We Can Take It Back"...

lots of copies of Reclaiming the Internet messily arranged on a table cover design by Kelly Winton

Happy pub day to RECLAIMING THE INTERNET: How Big Tech Took Control—and How We Can Take It Back, by Olivier Sylvain

“A must-read for those interested in AI law & policy, offering vital insights on what works in technology regulation.” —Frank Pasquale

🛜 globalreports.columbia.edu/books/reclai...

Losing Big | Columbia Global Reports The story behind the astonishing rise—and potential dangers—of the online sports gambling industry.

learn more about LOSING BIG: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling ⤵️
globalreports.columbia.edu/books/losing...

$500M Bet On The Iran Strike — Before It Happened Podcast Episode · Prof G Markets · March 5 · 29m

"When the Supreme Court legalized sports gambling surely we did not anticipate what we now have, which is basically the gamblification of everything"

ICYMI: Jonathan Cohen, author of LOSING BIG, definitely has concerns about prediction markets, on Prof G Markets 🎧
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/%...

Under the sea Podcast Episode · Start the Week · March 9 · 42m

“For island economies to be cast out of the internet, even for a brief while, would really plunge economies into chaos”

🎧 ICYMI: Samanth Subramanian, author of THE WEB BENEATH THE WAVES, talked about the fragility of internet infrastructure with BBC Start the Week
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/u...

How to Reclaim the Internet Episode 2828: Olivier Sylvain on Free Speech, Section 230 and How Big Tech Took Control of the Internet

"The argument to reclaim the internet is to reclaim the story that there is something about the internet that offers great promise that has been lost."

Olivier Sylvain joined Keen On America to talk about his new book RECLAIMING THE INTERNET (out next week!)
keenon.substack.com/p/how-to-rec...

Losing Big | Columbia Global Reports The story behind the astonishing rise—and potential dangers—of the online sports gambling industry.

learn more about LOSING BIG: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling ⤵️
globalreports.columbia.edu/books/losing...

$500M Bet On The Iran Strike — Before It Happened Podcast Episode · Prof G Markets · March 5 · 29m

"When the Supreme Court legalized sports gambling surely we did not anticipate what we now have, which is basically the gamblification of everything."

Jonathan Cohen, author of LOSING BIG, definitely has concerns about prediction markets, on Prof G Markets 🎧
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/%...

The Triangle of Power | Columbia Global Reports How the world broke—and how we can still save it

THE TRIANGLE OF POWER: Rebalancing the New World Order 🔻
globalreports.columbia.edu/books/the-tr...

Amid Rhetoric About Rupture With U.S., Finland Urges Calm

"A more varied world order needs institutional reform, however, Mr. Stubb says. He lays out an optimistic, even slightly utopian plan in his new book, The Triangle of Power."

Read more about that slightly utopian plan in THE TRIANGLE OF POWER out now from CGR🔻
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/w...

Book cover for “Reclaiming the Internet: How Big Tech Took Control—and How We Can Take It Back” by Olivier Sylvain, next to an endorsement from Frank Pasquale, author of “The Black Box Society”: “A must-read for those interested in AI law and policy, offering vital insights on what works in technology regulation.” [cover design by Kelly Winton]

“Expertly mapping the internet’s past and present, Sylvain envisions a far better future for online life in this refreshing call for reform.”— @frankpasquale.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

RECLAIMING THE INTERNET is on sale 3/17 but avail for preorder now!
🛜 globalreports.columbia.edu/books/reclai...

The Triangle of Power | Columbia Global Reports How the world broke—and how we can still save it

learn more about THE TRIANGLE OF POWER 🔻
globalreports.columbia.edu/books/the-tr...