By Geraldine Brooks ’83JRN 

From Jenny Slate ’04CC, Amanda Lee Koe ’17SOA, and other alumni and faculty

By Susan Minot ’83SOA

All by Columbia alumni

All by Columbia alumni authors

In American Scary, scholar Jeremy Dauber explores the country’s fascination with the macabre

All by Columbia alumni and faculty authors

In The Secret Life of Data, Aram Sinnreich ’00JRN explores the unknown impacts of the information age

By Rachel Kushner ’01SOA

By Tracy O’Neill ’20JRN 

By Dinaw Mengestu ’05SOA

How a zealous antitax campaign that went unnoticed by many has altered America’s social, cultural, and political fabric