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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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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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Book Review: "Alfred Kazin's Journals"

Selected and edited by Richard M. Cook

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Book Review: "Sugar in My Bowl"

Real Women Write About Sex. Edited by Erica Jong '63BC, '65GSAS

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Book Review: "Great Soul"

Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle for India. By Joseph Lelyveld '60JRN

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Book Review: "Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag"

By Sigrid Nunez '75SOA

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Book Review: "Bad News"

How America’s Business Press Missed the Story of the Century, edited by Anya Schiffrin '00JRN

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Book Review: "No Regrets: The Life of Edith Piaf"

By Carolyn Burke '71GSAS

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Fem Text Redux

Lawyer and former reporter Stephanie Staal ’93BC, ’98JRN discusses her book Reading Women: How the Great Books of Feminism Changed My Life

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Book Review: "An Accidental Sportswriter"

By Robert Lipsyte '57CC, '59JRN

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