In a new memoir, Zayd Ayers Dohrn ’06GSAS recounts a childhood spent partially on the lam and wrestles with his parents’ ideals
La Carmina, an award-winning blogger, journalist, and author, offers a spirited defense of the often-misunderstood religion
In London Falling, Patrick Radden Keefe ’99CC investigates the murky circumstances surrounding an English teenager who washed up in the Thames
All by Columbia alumni
Writing on Politics, Ice Cream, Churchill, and My Mother, By Simon Schama
Bobby Fischer’s Remarkable Rise and Fall — from America’s Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness, by Frank Brady '76SOA
John F. Mariani ’73GSAS, a columnist for Esquire and Bloomberg News, discusses his book How Italian Food Conquered the World
The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, by Jonathan Schneer '78GSAS
The Lost Peace: Leadership in a Time of Horror and Hope, 1945-1953, by Robert Dallek '64GSAS
We talk with history professor Samuel Moyn about his book The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History
An American Journalist in Yemen, by Jennifer Steil '97JRN
A review of How to Read the Air by Dinaw Mengestu '05SOA and Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok '97SOA
The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage, by Anthony Brandt '61GSAS