In a new memoir, Zayd Ayers Dohrn ’06GSAS recounts a childhood spent partially on the lam and wrestles with his parents’ ideals
La Carmina, an award-winning blogger, journalist, and author, offers a spirited defense of the often-misunderstood religion
In London Falling, Patrick Radden Keefe ’99CC investigates the murky circumstances surrounding an English teenager who washed up in the Thames
All by Columbia alumni
The Oxford Book of American Poetry, edited by David Lehman
The Man Who Invented Fidel: Castro, Cuba, and Herbert L. Matthews of The New York Times, by Anthony DePalma
Buried by The Times:The Holocaust and America’s Most Important Newspaper, by Laurel Leff
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America, by Ira Katznelson
If This Be Treason: Translation and Its Dyscontents, by Gregory Rabassa ’54GSAS
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
102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers, by Jim Dwyer ’80JRN and Kevin Flynn ’79JRN
The Invention of Painting in America, by David Rosand ’59CC, ’65GSAS
High Noon in the Cold War: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Max Frankel ’52CC, ’53GSAS
Touring Gotham’s Archaeological Past: 8 Self-Guided Walking Tours through New York City