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
Beijing’s Music Underground. By photographer Matthew Niederhauser ’05CC
The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations. By Mark Mazower
How Jane Jacobs Took on New York’s Master Builder and Transformed the American City. By Anthony Flint '85JRN
The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century Skeptic. By Michael Scammell '85GSAS
Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals. Photographs by Christopher Payne '90CC with an essay by Oliver Sacks
Adventures in America's Retirement Utopias, by Andrew D. Blechman '93JRN
The Forgotten Struggle of Civil Rights in the North, by Thomas J. Sugrue '84CC
New Perspectives on Lincoln and his World, edited by Eric Foner '63CC, '69GSAS
A Year at a Catholic High School in Harlem, by Patrick J. McCloskey '98JRN
Letters to Lillian and Travel Notebooks, by Daniel Esterman '65CC, Thomas Crow, and Hubert Damisch
Female soldiers in Iraq report an epidemic of sexual assault and harassment. Is the military taking them seriously?
The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga's Booker-winning début novel, skewers the class wars of the new India