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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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A Harlem Alliance

The Abyssinian Baptist Church is world famous

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Culinary Picaresque

The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen by Jacques Pépin

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Books in Brief

From Lisa Anderson, James Boylan ’51JRN, and other Columbia authors

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Profiles in Malice

Fools Rush In: Steve Case, Jerry Levin, and the Unmaking of AOL Time Warner by Nina Munk

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Tales of Magic and Prophecy

Oracle Night by Paul Auster

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Review: I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in Natural History

By Stephen Jay Gould '67GSAS

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Review: A Jacques Barzun Reader

Edited by Michael Murray

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Finding the Harlem of the Here and Now

John L. Jackson ’00GSAS is the author of Harlemworld: Doing Race and Class in Contemporary America

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Books in Brief

Myths of Venice, and more

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Review: My Misspent Youth

By Meghan Daum ’96SOA

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Review: Pearl's Secret: A Black Man's Search for His White Family

By Neil Henry ’78J

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