Books

Cozy up with new reads from Mitch Albom ’82JRN, ’83BUS, Natan Last ’21SIPA, and other Columbia authors

In Five Bullets, CNN legal analyst Elliot Williams ’02JRN, ’02LAW looks back at a controversial 1984 shooting

By Kiran Desai ’99SOA

Shows like American Idol and MasterChef give viewers an inflated sense of their own economic prospects, finds Columbia political scientist Eunji Kim

In Uncompete, Ruchika T. Malhotra ’10JRN touts the benefits of collaborating over competing, and gives concrete strategies for how to do it

In The Little Book of Data, ad-tech executive Justin Evans ’93CC shows that anyone can succeed in our information-based economy

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

In Lab Dog, Melanie D.G. Kaplan ’02JRN delves into the history, ethics, and future of experimenting on animals

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