Books

Luisa Navarro ’13JRN, author of Mexico’s Day of the Dead, explains the history and meaning behind a frequently misunderstood holiday

From Gary Shteyngart, Ed Park ’95SOA, and other Columbia authors

By Peter Mendelsund ’91CC 

A Training School for Elephants, by travel writer Sophy Roberts ’97JRN, tells the little-known tale of a Belgian king and Irish fixer in Africa

In We Survived the Night, Julian Brave NoiseCat ’15CC takes a deeply personal look at the historic efforts to erase Native culture 

For Baddest Man: The Making of Mike Tyson, Mark Kriegel ’86JRN had to revisit his own past as a sportswriter

In Between Two Rivers, Oxford historian Moudhy Al-Rashid ’05CC finds relatable slices of life in five-thousand-year-old clay tablets

In Everyday Intuition, Elizabeth Greenwood ’13SOA explores our inner voices and how we should use them

From A'Lelia Bundles ’76JRN, John McWhorter, and other Columbia authors

In Why Nothing Works, Marc J. Dunkelman ’01CC investigates the decline of public-sector innovation from the 1960s through today

By Jemimah Wei ’22SOA 

By Karen Russell ’06SOA