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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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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

Photo by Thomas Roma from "Enduring Justice"
Arts & Humanities

A Book-Sized World

A new exhibition this winter will feature a selection of Professor Thomas Roma's modest and intimate photographs

Kathryn Bigelow with cinematographer Barry Ackroyd and script supervisor Aslaug Konradsdottir in the Madaba Refugee Camp near Amman, Jordan
Arts & Humanities

Shoot Shoot, Bang Bang

The visceral cinema of Kathryn Bigelow ’79SOA has heady theoretical roots

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Dance Party

Columbians at the Sundance Film Festival

Illustration by Philippe Lechien of Philippe Petit walking tightrope between Twin Towers with an Oscar statue on his head
Arts & Humanities

High Art

Man on Wire, the 2008 documentary coproduced by film professor Maureen Ryan '92SOA, wins an Oscar

Painting of outdoor cafe by Joe McKendry
Arts & Humanities

Fiction: "Here or There"

By Jay Neugeboren '59CC

Illustrated portrait of Barack Obama by Andrea Ventura (2008)
Arts & Humanities

Politics for Grown-Ups

Revisiting Richard Hofstadter’s “Paranoid Style” in the Age of Obama

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Matinee Hero

Mr. Kim's Video says goodbye to Morningside Heights

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