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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
My Medievalist Mentor
A conversation with Columbia historian Caroline Walker Bynum on writing, mentorship, and the long arc of intellectual formation
Columbia in the Movies
22 films in which Columbia makes a cameo
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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Literary critic Lionel Trilling ’25CC, ’38GSAS been written off as out of date.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
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The Looming Towers
Urban photographer Camilo José Vergara '77GSAS documented the Twin Towers as they rose and became pillars of the city below them
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Of Snakes and Butterflies
When Zhou Long won the 2011 Pulitzer for Music, he gained something more than artistic laurels
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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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Nibs and Nibbles
The 2011 Pulitzer Prize recipients clink glasses in celebration of their achievements in journalism, literature, and music
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A Sentimental Education
Playwright and political activist Tony Kushner '78CC provides insight into his intellectual development
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The Power of Lingering
To shoot his photo essay Disappearing Shanghai, J-school professor Howard French had to make something else fade from view: himself