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Clifford Chanin at the 9/11 Museum
Arts & Humanities

How Do You Memorialize a Mass Tragedy?

Twenty-five years after 9/11, Clifford Chanin ’77JRN, ’80SIPA keeps the events of that day in the public consciousness

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16 ‘Outstanding’ Emmy Winners with Columbia Connections

These acclaimed TV shows with alumni and University ties have won Primetime Emmy awards for outstanding series

Photo of Caroline Bynum

My Medievalist Mentor

A conversation with Columbia historian Caroline Walker Bynum on writing, mentorship, and the long arc of intellectual formation

Jeff Bridges and Barbara Streisand on Columbia University campus in The Mirror Has Two Faces

Columbia in the Movies

22 films in which Columbia makes a cameo

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Arts & Humanities

For Our Eyes Only

Looking back at the career of Ernest L. Cuneo '27CC, sketch artist for the first James Bond film

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We Call on Spring: A Short Story

By Belinda McKeon '10SOA

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Arts & Humanities

Poem: "High to Low"

By David Yezzi '95SOA

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Arts & Humanities

The Real McKay

A "Harlem Renaissance" in Columbia's Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Illustration
Arts & Humanities

Next Exit: A Short Story

By Nalini Jones '01SOA

Jacques Barzun
Arts & Humanities

The Unedited Man

Critic John Simon offers his personal reflections on Jacques Barzun '27CC, '32GSAS, one of the twentieth century’s foremost public intellectuals

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Arts & Humanities

The Passage: A Photo Essay

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

Newspaper clipping of Lucien Carr news
Arts & Humanities

The Last Beat

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

Laura Cantrell with guitar, photographed by Rayon Richards
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Tennessee Rose

The return of singer Laura Cantrell

Book cover: "Glaciology" by poet Jeffrey Skinner
Arts & Humanities

Poem "The Deal"

By Jeffrey Skinner '78SOA

Sci-fi/ Columbia University illustration by Cliff Cramp
Arts & Humanities

Space Avengers

Exploring Butler Library's sci-fi magazine collection

Paul Auster
Arts & Humanities

The Solitude of Invention

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

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