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A Child of the Weather Underground Reckons with His Family History

In a new memoir, Zayd Ayers Dohrn ’06GSAS recounts a childhood spent partially on the lam and wrestles with his parents’ ideals 

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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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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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10 History Books that Will Make You Smarter

All by Columbia alumni

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"A Mother's Tale" by Phillip Lopate
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Book Excerpt "A Mother's Tale”

Phillip Lopate '64CC, essayist and Director of Columbia’s nonfiction writing program, reflects on his mother

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Book Review: “The Perpetual Now”

By Michael D. Lemonick ’83JRN

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Book Review: “The Body Builders: Inside the Science of the Engineered Human”

By Adam Piore '94JRN

The 12 Lives of Samuel Hawley
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Book Review: “The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley”

By Hannah Tinti 

Graham Moore
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The Shock of the New

Oscar-winning screenwriter and New York Times best-selling author Graham Moore ’03CC discusses his new novel

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Reading List: Winter 2016

New and noteworthy releases from alumni and faculty

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Book Review: “His Final Battle: The Last Months of Franklin Roosevelt”

Joseph Lelyveld's book is a meticulously researched examination of the last eighteen months of the life of Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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Book Review: “Mischling”

Affinity Konar's new novel is at once marvelous and strange

The Attention Merchants
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Excerpt: The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads

A professor at Columbia Law School, Tim Wu examines how industries increasingly vie for and commodify our attention

"4 3 2 1" by Paul Auster
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Book Review: “4 3 2 1”

By Paul Auster ’69CC, ’70GSAS

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The Klan’s Last Stand

Laurence Leamer ’69JRN, ’69SIPA discusses his book The Lynching: The Epic Courtroom Battle that Brought Down the Klan

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Reading List: Fall 2016

New and noteworthy releases from alumni and faculty

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