Books

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

In The Other Dark Matter, journalist Lina Zeldovich ’12JRN says we are wasting a valuable scientific and economic asset

By Colm Tóibín