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The Promise and Pitfalls of Psychedelic Drugs
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The Promise and Pitfalls of Psychedelic Drugs

In A Short, Strange Trip, John O’Connor ’03SOA looks at the history, impact, and mystique of magic mushrooms and the psychedelic movement

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The Pacifist's Guide to Satanism
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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

10 History Books that Will Make You Smarter
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10 History Books that Will Make You Smarter

All by Columbia alumni

Review: Unremarried Widow
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Review: Unremarried Widow

By Artis Henderson '10JRN

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Driving Pinky Madam
Illustration of a chauffeur in India by Edward Kinsella
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Driving Pinky Madam

The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga's Booker-winning début novel, skewers the class wars of the new India

Review: "The Narcotic Farm"
The dairy herd at the Narcotic Farm prison for drug addicts
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Review: "The Narcotic Farm"

The Rise and Fall of America's First Prison for Drug Addicts, by Nancy D. Campbell, JP Olsen '95JRN, and Luke Walden

Review: "The Bishop's Daughter"
Cover of "The Bishop's Daughter" by Honor Moore
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Review: "The Bishop's Daughter"

A memoir by Honor Moore

Review: "Names on the Land"
Cover of Names on the Land: A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States, by George R. Stewart
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Review: "Names on the Land"

A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States, by George R. Stewart '22GSAS

Review: "A Shattered Peace"
Germans scrapping their war machines in 1919 under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles
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Review: "A Shattered Peace"

Versailles 1919 and the Price We Pay Today, by David A. Andelman '66JRN

Review: "Terror and Consent"
Cover of Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-First Century by Philip Bobbitt
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Review: "Terror and Consent"

The Wars for the Twenty-First Century, by Philip Bobbitt

Red Leather Days
Illustration by Mark Steele of Florence Wolfson Howitt and Lily Koppel
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Red Leather Days

A journalist writes a book based on a ninety-year-old woman's discarded, long-forgotten diary

Trilling's Journey Resumed
Illustration of Lionel Trilling by Hadley Hooper
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Trilling's Journey Resumed

An excerpt from Lionel Trilling's newly discovered unfinished novel

Review: "Coltrane: The Story of a Sound"
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Review: "Coltrane: The Story of a Sound"

By Ben Ratliff '90CC

Review: Modernism
Charlie Chaplin digs into a boot in "The Gold Rush" (1925)
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Review: Modernism

The Lure of Heresy, by Peter Gay '51GSAS

Unknown Solutions
Garden by Renee Rothbein, 1924-2001
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Unknown Solutions

Inflorescence and Long Distance by Sarah Hannah '91SOA, '05GSAS

Review: "A Place for the Arts"
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Review: "A Place for the Arts"

The MacDowell Colony, 1907–2007, by Carter Wiseman '72GSAS

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