Books

Six books from Columbia alumni that promise to make raising children just a little easier

All by globetrotting Columbia alumni

Some world leaders used the pandemic as an excuse to silence critics and roll back civil liberties. Can the damage be undone?

A review of The Quiet Before: On the Unexpected Origins of Radical Ideas, by Gal Beckerman ’21JRN

All from Columbia alumni authors

By Geraldine Brooks ’83JRN 

By Jessamine Chan ’12SOA

A review of Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks, by Patrick Radden Keefe ’99CC

In Rescuing Socrates, American-studies professor Roosevelt Montás ’95CC, ’04GSAS makes the case for a liberal-arts education

Sociologist Danielle J. Lindemann ’10GSAS takes an intellectual dive into a popular but maligned genre

Here are just a few of the acclaimed books written, at least in part, at the shop’s cramped tables

By Gary Shteyngart