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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: "The Balfour Declaration"

The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, by Jonathan Schneer '78GSAS

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Review: "The Emperor of All Maladies"

A Biography of Cancer, by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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Book Review: "The Lost Peace"

The Lost Peace: Leadership in a Time of Horror and Hope, 1945-1953, by Robert Dallek '64GSAS

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Book Review: "Sunset Park"

By Paul Auster '70CC

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Human Rights: Newer Than You Think

We talk with history professor Samuel Moyn about his book The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History

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Book Review: "The Woman Who Fell from the Sky"

An American Journalist in Yemen, by Jennifer Steil '97JRN

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Interpreters of Dreams

A review of How to Read the Air by Dinaw Mengestu '05SOA and Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok '97SOA

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Book Review: "The Man Who Ate His Boots"

The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage, by Anthony Brandt '61GSAS

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Book Review: "Perfect Reader"

By Maggie Pouncey '00CC, '08SOA

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Book Review: "Lay the Favorite"

A Memoir of Gambling, by Beth Raymer '08SOA

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Book Review: "Norman Podhoretz: A Biography"

By Thomas L. Jeffers

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Atlantic & Pacific

Two new books evoke the lingering lessons of World War II

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