Arts & Humanities

Central American migrants risk their lives on the journey north through Mexico

A murder in Riverside Park changed the lives of a group of Columbia undergrads. Did it change literature as well?

The return of singer Laura Cantrell

By Jeffrey Skinner '78SOA

Exploring Butler Library's sci-fi magazine collection

Paul Auster, one of America’s most enigmatic literary figures, has opened up about his life in a new memoir. Now he opens his front door

By David Yezzi '95SOA

By Ed Park '95SOA

What can painters of a hundred years ago tell us about our brains? Neurobiologist Eric Kandel narrates a museum tour of the mind

Theater director Diane Paulus '97SOA takes on Porgy and Bess

For a MoMA exhibition, architects rethink the American suburbs in light of the foreclosure crisis

By Bill Zavatsky '74SOA, '74GS