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A'Lelia Bundles
Arts & Humanities

How Writer A’Lelia Bundles, Descendant of Madam C. J. Walker, Found Her Subject

Through sweeping biographies of her foremothers, the author shares a dazzling American inheritance. Her own story belongs on the same high shelf

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Supriya Ganesh on The Pitt

From Columbia to The Pitt

For Supriya Ganesh ’19CC, starring in the Emmy-nominated hospital drama wasn’t a far cry from reality

Aimee Ng, chief curator at the Frick Collection
Aimee Ng (Joseph Coscia Jr.)

5 Alumni Museum Curators Shaping the Art World Today

Through visionary exhibitions and programming, Columbia graduates are steering the direction of some of New York’s most prestigious museums

Collage of Oscar-winning movies with Columbia connections

18 Oscar ‘Best Picture’ Winners with Columbia Connections

Since the Golden Age of Hollywood, Columbians have contributed to some of the Academy’s most awarded movies

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Subway train at station
Arts & Humanities

Poem: "Train Ride"

By Bill Zavatsky '74SOA, '74GS

Illustration of men playing chess in a bar
Arts & Humanities

To Capture A King: A Short Story

By Norbert Ehrenfreund '50GSAS

Illustration of horse jockeys riding books
Arts & Humanities

Bookmakers

A literary Run for the Roses at the New School

Valerie Paley in gallery
Arts & Humanities

History in the Making

Historian Valerie Paley '11GSAS gives a heads-up on her makeover of the New-York Historical Society's permanent exhibit

Abstract painting of woman swimming by Vivienne Flesher
Arts & Humanities

Fiction: "Half of All of What Was True"

By Josh Weil '04SOA

Katori Hall
Arts & Humanities

Tell It on the Mountain

The young playwright Katori Hall '03CC unlocks her voice in a controversial play about Martin Luther King Jr.

Photo of snow on branches
Arts & Humanities

Poem: "Light Snow"

By Jeffrey Harrison '80CC

Hamilton Hall at Columbia photographed by Eileen Barroso
Arts & Humanities

Poem: "Me and Kenneth"

By J. D. Scrimgeour '86CC, '87GSAS

Lionel Trilling
Arts & Humanities

Why We (Should) Read Trilling

Literary critic Lionel Trilling ’25CC, ’38GSAS been written off as out of date. Here's why he matters more than ever

View of the Twin Towers from Brooklyn in 1977
Arts & Humanities

The Looming Towers

Urban photographer Camilo José Vergara '77GSAS documented the Twin Towers as they rose and became pillars of the city below them

Zhou Long with accordion
Arts & Humanities

Of Snakes and Butterflies

When Zhou Long won the 2011 Pulitzer for Music, he gained something more than artistic laurels

Illustration of Manning Marable by David Hollenbach
Arts & Humanities

A Message for the World

Manning Marable believed that Black history and scholarship should be a means for changing the world

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