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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: "American Dervish"

By Ayad Akhtar '03SOA

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Book Review: "The Flame Alphabet"

By Ben Marcus

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Book Review: "Berlin 1961"

By Frederick Kempe '77JRN

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Tales of an American Dreamer

We talk with Steven Millhauser '65CC, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and short-story writer, about his book We Others: New and Selected Stories

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Book Review: "The Buddha in the Attic"

By Julie Otsuka '99SOA

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Book Review: "[sic]: A Memoir"

By Joshua Cody '06GSAS

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Book Review: "Helvetica and the New York City Subway System"

By Paul Shaw '80GSAS

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Book Review: "Harlem"

The Four Hundred Year History from Dutch Village to Capital of Black America. By Jonathan Gill '86CC, '99GSAS

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Book Review: "Nom de Plume"

By Carmela Ciuraru '96JRN

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Book Review: Swamplandia!

By Karen Russell '06SOA

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Book Review: "The Rules of the Tunnel" and "Strange Relation"

By Ned Zeman '88JRN and Rachel Hadas

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Book Review: "Jacques Barzun: Portrait of a Mind"

By Michael Murray (Frederic C. Beil)

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