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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
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
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: "Asylum"
Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals. Photographs by Christopher Payne '90CC with an essay by Oliver Sacks
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Review: "Leisureville"
Adventures in America's Retirement Utopias, by Andrew D. Blechman '93JRN
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Review: "Sweet Land of Liberty"
The Forgotten Struggle of Civil Rights in the North, by Thomas J. Sugrue '84CC
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Review: "Our Lincoln"
New Perspectives on Lincoln and his World, edited by Eric Foner '63CC, '69GSAS
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Review: "The Street Stops Here"
A Year at a Catholic High School in Harlem, by Patrick J. McCloskey '98JRN
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Review: "Meyer Schapiro Abroad"
Letters to Lillian and Travel Notebooks, by Daniel Esterman '65CC, Thomas Crow, and Hubert Damisch
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Betrayal in the Field
Female soldiers in Iraq report an epidemic of sexual assault and harassment. Is the military taking them seriously?
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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
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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
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Review: "Names on the Land"
A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States, by George R. Stewart '22GSAS
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Review: "A Shattered Peace"
Versailles 1919 and the Price We Pay Today, by David A. Andelman '66JRN