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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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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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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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