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Dial M for Morningside: Hitchcock at Columbia
collage of Alfred Hitchcock with movie images and Low Library
Arts & Humanities

Dial M for Morningside: Hitchcock at Columbia

In 1972, film-studies professor Stefan Sharff brought his idol Alfred Hitchcock to campus to receive a Doctor of Humane Letters

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The Story Behind the Most Famous Christmas Poem of All
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The Story Behind the Most Famous Christmas Poem of All

The improbable tale of Santa Claus, Columbia, and Clement Clarke Moore’s “A Visit from St. Nicholas"

Spooky Movies to Stream this Halloween — all with Columbia Connections
Sissy Spacek in Carrie

Spooky Movies to Stream this Halloween — all with Columbia Connections

These haunting tales are perfect for a morbid movie night at home

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

Columbia in the Movies

21 films in which Columbia makes a cameo

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Unbreakable
George Preston holding baseball bats, photographed by Daniella Zalcman
Arts & Humanities

Unbreakable

The home of art historian George Preston ’73GSAS contains all the wood you can handle

Autograph Man
Illustration by Irena Roman of a writing desk with pencils, a typewriter, a signed baseball, and a framed picture of a baseball player
Arts & Humanities

Autograph Man

Writer Paul Auster '69CC, '70GSAS gives a reading at the Kraft Center for Jewish Life

Fiction: "Expectations Great and Small"
Painting by William Ong of two hands sewing
Arts & Humanities

Fiction: "Expectations Great and Small"

By Binnie Kirshenbaum '80GS, chair of the Writing Division at Columbia University School of the Arts

Taking 'Stock
Members of Sha Na Na at Woodstock.
Arts & Humanities

Taking 'Stock

Looking back at Sha Na Na, the doo-wop revival band that started as a Columbia singing group. 

Utopia Parkway
Julio Marzan photographed by Daniella Zalcman
Arts & Humanities

Utopia Parkway

On the road with the poet laureate of Queens

Alice in Columbialand
Illustration of Alice in Wonderland and characters at Columbia University, by Mark Steele
Arts & Humanities

Alice in Columbialand

Celebrating the legacy of the "real" Alice in Wonderland

Every Day Is Bird Day
Phil Schaap
Arts & Humanities

Every Day Is Bird Day

After 40 years at WKCR, jazz guru Phil Schaap '73CC is still riffing like there’s no tomorrow

Remembering Rachel Wetzsteon (1967—2009)
Cover of "Silver Roses" by Rachel Wetzsteon
Arts & Humanities

Remembering Rachel Wetzsteon (1967—2009)

Wetzsteon ’99GSAS, whom Richard Howard called “the most variously gifted of our young poets,” took her own life at the age of 42

Preview From the Bridge
Water-color painting of the Cort Theatre by Philip Bannister
Arts & Humanities

Preview From the Bridge

A Columbia theater-arts professor revives Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge

Seven Years: A Short Story
Painting by Patti Mollica of athletic equipment and boxes outside of apartment door
Arts & Humanities

Seven Years: A Short Story

By Herbert Gold '46CC, '49GSAS

The Night Hunter
Photographer Steve Duncan crawling out of a man hole
Arts & Humanities

The Night Hunter

Steve Duncan '02CC tracks down history in dark, dangerous places. Then he shoots it.

Fiction: "Debt"
Painting by Irena Roman of man sitting with his foot on a pile of mail
Arts & Humanities

Fiction: "Debt"

By Victor LaValle '98SOA

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