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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: "Hotel: An American History"

By Andrew K. Sandoval-Strausz '94CC

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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

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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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A Pitch Perfect Match

An excerpt from Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, by Oliver Sacks

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French Preoccupation

An excerpt from Why France? American Historians Reflect on an Enduring Fascination, by Robert O. Paxton

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Review: St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves

By Karen Russell '06SOA

Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger in September 1972
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Review: "Nixon and Kissinger"

Partners in Power, by Robert Dallek '64GSAS

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Review: "Dry Manhattan"

Prohibition in New York City, by Michael A. Lerner '89CC

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Review: "Off the Books"

The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor, by Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh

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Review: "Conquering Gotham — A Gilded Age Epic"

The Construction of Penn Station and Its Tunnels, by Jill Jonnes '77JRN

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Review: "Man and Camel"

By Mark Strand

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