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Dial M for Morningside: Hitchcock at Columbia
collage of Alfred Hitchcock with movie images and Low Library
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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
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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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Pointe Taken
Alicia Graf Mack photographed in 2006 by Lois Greenfield for Columbia Magazine
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Pointe Taken

After a knee injury nearly ended her career, Alicia Graf '03GS is back on her toes

The Artist as Citizen
Vaclav Havel in the Kremlin shortly before meeting with President Boris Yeltsin in April 1992
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The Artist as Citizen

An up-close view of playwright and former Czech president Václav Havel

A Hanging at the Met
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A Hanging at the Met

Auld Lang ’Zine
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Auld Lang ’Zine

The Columbia Review claims to be the nation’s oldest college literary journal

Classics à la Mode?
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Classics à la Mode?

Why traditional humanistic education is worth fighting for

Still Life with Critic
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Still Life with Critic

On a broad canvas, Jed Perl finds figures in the shadows

The Confessions and Obsessions of Ariel Schrag
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The Confessions and Obsessions of Ariel Schrag

A young cartoonist draws inspiration from high school

A Fling and a Prayer
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A Fling and a Prayer

The Great Throwdini fills his audience with the adrenaline of anxiety and dread

Mad Libs
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Mad Libs

In a new show of experimental theater called Gravid Water, actors and improvisers meet onstage to perform a series of unrehearsed scenes

The King of Maps
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The King of Maps

No one knows the streets of New York like John Tauranac

A Literary Filiation
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A Literary Filiation

Few are aware that Norman Podhoretz's intellectual life began well before 1960

Speak, Memory
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Speak, Memory

A Columbia archive helps history find a voice

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