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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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Review: "Radical Ambition"

C. Wright Mills, the Left and American Social Thought, by Daniel Geary

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Review: "Boulevard of Dreams"

Heady Times, Heartbreak, and Hope along the Grand Concourse in the Bronx, by Constance Rosenblum '67JRN

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Review: "Life List"

A Woman's Quest for the World's Most Amazing Birds, by Olivia Gentile '03JRN

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Review: "When Principles Pay"

Corporate Social Responsibility and the Bottom Line, by Geoffrey Heal

"Toward Los Angeles" by Dorothea Lange, March 1937
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Review: "The Likes of Us"

America in the Eyes of the Farm Security Administration, by Stu Cohen

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Review: "Dancing in the Dark"

A Cultural History of the Great Depression, by Morris Dickstein '61CC

Illustration of Kim Jong Ill by David Brinley
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Northern Exposure

North Korea has sealed itself off from the world, but cracks are beginning to show. What does it all mean — and what should the U.S. do next?

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Book Review: "Amateur Barbarians"

By Robert Cohen '83SOA

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Book Review: "Great Negotiations"

Agreements that Changed the Modern World, by Frederik Stanton '96CC

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A Rose for Emily

An interview with Jerome Charyn ’59CC, author of The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson: A Novel

Columbia students stage a mock book burning in 1936 to protest Nicholas Murray Butler's decision to send a delegate to the University of Heidelberg's 550th anniversary celebration
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Book Review: "The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower"

Complicity and Conflict on American Campuses, by Stephen H. Norwood '84GSAS

Henry Luce in 1937 with Columbia law professor, Newsweek columnist, and disillusioned Brain Truster Raymond Moley
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Book Review: "The Publisher"

Henry Luce and His American Century, by Alan Brinkley

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