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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

London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe

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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"Triple Point (Pendulum)" by Sarah Sze
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Review: "Sarah Sze: Triple Point"

By Sarah Sze

"Harlem Nocturne"
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Three Women

We talk with professor Farah Jasmine Griffin about her book Harlem Nocturne

"Raising Henry"
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Book Review: "Raising Henry"

A Memoir of Motherhood, Disability, and Discovery, by Rachel Adams

"Tragic Prelude"
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Book Review: "The Good Lord Bird"

By James McBride '80JRN

"At Night We Walk in Circles"
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Book Review: "At Night We Walk in Circles"

By Daniel Alarcón '99CC

James Gillray, Maniac Ravings, or Little Boney in a Strong Fit, 1803
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Book Review: "The Art of Controversy: Political Cartoons and Their Enduring Power"

By Victor S. Navasky

JFK's Last Hundred Days
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Book Review: “JFK’s Last Hundred Days”

By Thurston Clarke '72BUS

The Great Civilized Conversation
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The Central Kingdom

Wm. Theodore de Bary ’41CC, ’53GSAS, ’94HON discusses his book The Great Civilized Conversation: Education for a World Community

Phillip Lopate
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Review: "Portrait Inside My Head: Essays” & “To Show and To Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction”

Two books by Phillip Lopate '64CC

The Measure of Manhattan
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Book Review: “The Measure of Manhattan”

By Marguerite Holloway '88JRN

"Her"
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Book Review: “Her”

By Christa Parravani '03SOA

"Here and Now"
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Book Review: “Here and Now: Letters”

By Paul Auster '69CC '70GSAS and J. M. Coetzee

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