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Late-nineteenth-century dresses from the French couturiers Maison Lévilion (left) and House of Worth
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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

London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe

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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Review: "Terror and Consent"

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

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

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

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Review: "Coltrane: The Story of a Sound"

By Ben Ratliff '90CC

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

Garden by Renee Rothbein, 1924-2001
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Unknown Solutions

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

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Review: "A Place for the Arts"

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

Cover of "The Collar: A Year Inside a Catholic Seminary" by Jonathan Englert
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Review: "The Collar"

A Year Inside a Catholic Seminary, by Jonathan Englert '01JRN

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Review: "Hotel: An American History"

By Andrew K. Sandoval-Strausz '94CC

Cover of From the Palmer Raids to the Patriot Act: A History of the Fight for Free Speech in America, by Christopher M. Finan, with quote from Bernie Sanders
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Review: "From the Palmer Raids to the Patriot Act"

A History of the Fight for Free Speech in America, by Christopher M. Finan '92GSAS

Winston Churchill and Herbert Samuel, high commissioner of Palestine, walking toward the site of Hebrew University in Jerusalem, March 1921
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Review: "Churchill's Promised Land"

Zionism and Statecraft, by Michael Makovsky

Illustration by Mark Steele of a 18th century man with an eye patch about to get trampled on by a horse
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From the Bronx to Battery

Bronx native Jerome Charyn’s new novel, Johnny One-Eye, captures the spirit of Manhattan in the ’70s — the 1770s, that is

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