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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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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

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

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

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. 

Julio Marzan photographed by Daniella Zalcman
Arts & Humanities

Utopia Parkway

On the road with the poet laureate of Queens

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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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