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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

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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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Gained in Translation

If This Be Treason: Translation and Its Dyscontents, by Gregory Rabassa ’54GSAS

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Call Him Herman

Melville: His World and Work, by Andrew Delbanco

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The Columbian Candidate

Nicholas Murray Butler served as Columbia’s president for 44 years and created the University in his own image. But there was another job he wanted

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From 8:46 to 10:28

102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers, by Jim Dwyer ’80JRN and Kevin Flynn ’79JRN

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Found Art

New York, Empire City 1920–1945, by David Stravitz with Christopher Gray ’75GS

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They Invented It, We Reinvented it

The Invention of Painting in America, by David Rosand ’59CC, ’65GSAS

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90 Miles from Oblivion

High Noon in the Cold War: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Max Frankel ’52CC, ’53GSAS

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New York Underfoot

Touring Gotham’s Archaeological Past: 8 Self-Guided Walking Tours through New York City

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If These Dolls Could Talk

The Art of the Russian Matryoshka, by Rett Ertl ’74/’86GSAS and Rick Hibberd

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Porn in the USA

XXX: 30 Porn-Star Portraits, by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders ’74CC

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Hell Froze

Red Sox vs. Yankees: The Great Rivalry and Babe Ruth: Launching the Legend

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Canada Lee’s Curtain Call

Becoming Something: The Story of Canada Lee, by Mona Z. Smith ’94GSAS

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