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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: "Secret Girl"

A Memoir, by Molly Bruce Jacobs '81LAW

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Review: "Life on the Lower East Side"

Photographs by Rebecca Lepkoff, 1937–1950, text by Peter E. Dans '61PS and Suzanne Wasserman

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Review: "Pigeons"

The Fascinating Saga of the World's Most Revered and Reviled Bird, by Andrew D. Blechman '93JRN

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Review: "American Movie Critics"

An Anthology from the Silents Until Now, edited by Phillip Lopate '64CC

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Review: "The Accidental Investment Banker"

Inside the Decade that Transformed Wall Street, by Jonathan A. Knee

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Review: "Rough Crossings"

Britain, the Slaves, and the American Revolution, by Simon Schama

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Copland's Party Music

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Shadowing Shakespeare

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Beauty and Artiste

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Deutschland After All

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Grand Central to All Points

The Architecture of Warren & Wetmore, by Peter Pennoyer '80CC, '84APP and Anne Walker '00APP

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Mixed-up Media

Letters to a Young Journalist, by Samuel G. Freedman

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