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Late-nineteenth-century dresses from the French couturiers Maison Lévilion (left) and House of Worth
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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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Alfred Kazin, in a 1968 portrait by Arnold Newman
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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

Mahatma Gandhi in 1947 with his grandnieces
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Book Review: "Great Soul"

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

Susan Sontag and her son, David Rieff, in 1976
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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

Edith Piaf at Columbia's Maison Francaise in 1947
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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

Robert Lipsyte covering a boxing match at Shea Stadium in 1967
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Book Review: "An Accidental Sportswriter"

By Robert Lipsyte '57CC, '59JRN

Painting: "Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On" by J. M. W. Turner (1840)
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Book Review: "Scribble, Scribble, Scribble"

Writing on Politics, Ice Cream, Churchill, and My Mother, By Simon Schama

Cover of "Alan Lomax" by John Szwed
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Book Review: "Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World"

By John Szwed

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Book Review: "Endgame"

Bobby Fischer’s Remarkable Rise and Fall — from America’s Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness, by Frank Brady '76SOA

Cover of "How Italian Food Conquered the World"
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Venni, vidi, ora mangiate!

John F. Mariani ’73GSAS, a columnist for Esquire and Bloomberg News, discusses his book How Italian Food Conquered the World

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