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The Fashionable Legacy of the Gilded Age

Elizabeth L. Block ’04GSAS recently published Gilded Age Fashion, a book showcasing over fifty dresses and accessories from the late 1800s     

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The Pacifist's Guide to Satanism

La Carmina, an award-winning blogger, journalist, and author, offers a spirited defense of the often-misunderstood religion

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A Response to Authoritarian Attacks on Universities

In his latest book, University: A Reckoning, former Columbia president Lee C. Bollinger ’71LAW, ’02HON defends the role of higher education in America

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The Mysterious Death of Zac Brettler

In London Falling, Patrick Radden Keefe ’99CC investigates the murky circumstances surrounding an English teenager who washed up in the Thames

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President-elect Barack Obama prepares to take the oath of office in January 2009
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Review: A Promised Land

By Barack Obama ’83CC

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6 Fabulous Books to Read this Winter

From Sarah Smarsh '05SOA, Phillip Lopate '64CC, and other Columbia authors

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Review: "The Last Million"

By David Nasaw ’72GSAS

Writer Danielle Evans (Beowulf Sheehan)
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Review: "The Office of Historical Corrections"

By Danielle Evans ’04CC

Sigrid Nunez
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Review: What Are You Going Through

By Sigrid Nunez ’72BC, ’75SOA

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Well-Versed

3 new poetry collections from Columbia alumni

Illustration of Columbia psychologist Carl L. Hart by Jonny Ruzzo for Columbia Magazine, 2020
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A Professor Makes a Radical Argument for Recreational Drugs

Columbia psychologist Carl L. Hart discusses his book Drug Use for Grown-Ups

Covers of Conjure Women by Afia Atakora, Hello Darkness, My Old Friend by Sanford D. Greenberg, Trouble the Saints by Alaya Dawn Johnson, Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar, Daddy by Emma Cline, Just Us by Claudia Rankine, in Columbia Magazine fall 2020 issue
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6 New Books to Read This Fall

All from Columbia-alumni authors

Illustration by Jonny Ruzzo of Erin Geiger Smith, author of Thank You For Voting, for Columbia Magazine fall 2020 issue
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Yes, Your Vote Matters

Voting is a cherished American right, but more than 40 percent of eligible adults don’t do it

Cover of Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing by Jacob Goldstein, reviewed in Columbia Magazine fall 2020 issue
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Review: "Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing"

By Jacob Goldstein '04JRN

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Review: "The Lost Pianos of Siberia"

By Sophy Roberts '97JRN

Martha McPhee
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Review: "An Elegant Woman"

By Martha McPhee '94SOA

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