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A'Lelia Bundles
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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
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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

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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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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

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A Hanging at the Met

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Auld Lang ’Zine

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

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Classics à la Mode?

Why traditional humanistic education is worth fighting for

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Still Life with Critic

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

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The Confessions and Obsessions of Ariel Schrag

A young cartoonist draws inspiration from high school

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A Fling and a Prayer

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

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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

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The King of Maps

No one knows the streets of New York like John Tauranac

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A Literary Filiation

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

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Speak, Memory

A Columbia archive helps history find a voice

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Cracks in the Foundation

Supporters and critics agree that the United Nations needs an overhaul. Six Columbia insiders assess the damage and tell us where repairs should begin

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