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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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6 New Books to Read this Fall

All by Columbia alumni and faculty authors

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Will Your Data Come Back to Haunt You?

In The Secret Life of Data, Aram Sinnreich ’00JRN explores the unknown impacts of the information age

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Review: Creation Lake

By Rachel Kushner ’01SOA

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Review: Woman of Interest

By Tracy O’Neill ’20JRN 

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Review: Someone Like Us

By Dinaw Mengestu ’05SOA

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Could All Our Tax Breaks Be Breaking the Country?

How a zealous antitax campaign that went unnoticed by many has altered America’s social, cultural, and political fabric

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8 Books that Will Transport You to Another Time and Place

These works of historical fiction provide fascinating windows into life long ago, with plenty of wisdom for our current age

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6 New Books to Add to Your Summer Reading List

All by Columbia alumni authors

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Review: Long Island

By Colm Tóibín

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Review: The Stone Home

By Crystal Hana Kim ’09CC, ’14SOA

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The Societal Causes of Eating Disorders

In Dead Weight, Emmeline Clein ’16CC, ’22SOA draws on her own story, as well as interviews, academic studies, history, and pop culture

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A Complicated History of Imperfect Revolutions

Historian Nathan Perl-Rosenthal ’11GSAS discusses his book The Age of Revolutions and the Generations Who Made It

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