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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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Book Review: “If the Oceans Were Ink”

By Carla Power '95JRN

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Book Review: “Hissing Cousins”

By Marc Peyser '87JRN and Timothy Dwyer

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Review: Get in Trouble

By Kelly Link '91CC

The Lusitania
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Review: Dead Wake

By Eric Larson '78JRN

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Book Review: "Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry"

By Jeffrey A. Lieberman, with Ogi Ogas

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Jersey Boy

Richard Ford, a Columbia humanities professor, discusses his book Let Me Be Frank With You

The Culinary Imagination
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Book Review: "The Culinary Imagination"

Americans have never spent less time in the kitchen preparing the daily meals that feed our families. And yet culturally, our interest in food has never been stronger

The Unspeakable
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Book Review: "The Unspeakable"

By Meghan Daum ’96SOA 

Impolite Conversations
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Book Review: "Impolite Conversations"

On Race, Politics, Sex, Money, and Religion, by Cora Daniels '94JRN and John L. Jackson Jr. '00GSAS

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Review: Nora Webster

By Colm Tóibín

Brighton Beach
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Book Review: "Panic in a Suitcase"

By Yelena Akhtiorskaya '09SOA

The Late Starters Orchestra
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Book Review: "The Late Starters Orchestra"

By Ari L. Goldman ’73JRN

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