People building a boat in a workshop, photographed by Vernon Doucette

Summer 2007

Summer 2007 cover of Columbia Magazine, with photo of a boat being built in a workshop (Vernon Doucette)

Working Skiffs

Against the tide, the kids in Joe Youcha's workshop are carving out their futures.
Feature Stories
Arts & Humanities

Moving Picture

Alice Neel made art on her own terms; but as a new film by her grandson Andrew Neel '01CC suggests, her family paid a price

Arts & Humanities

Politics and Prose

After a criminal indictment and a Nobel Prize, the novelist Orhan Pamuk reflects on the challenges of remaining true to his art

Arts & Humanities

The Fixer

Can editor Franklin Foer '96CC rescue the New Republic? 

Health & Medicine

Rash Judgment?

Brian Fallon '85PH, '85PS says the medical establishment underestimates the devastating effects of Lyme disease

Features

College Walk

Alumni

Checkered Past

Mike Gravel '56GS, former Democratic senator from Alaska, runs for president

Science & Technology

Is This Thing On?

Electrical engineering professor Dan Ellis creates a "life log"

Explorations

Science & Technology

Water Wars

A drought as severe as the 1930s Dust Bowl could ignite conflicts over water, scientists say

Science & Technology

A Fall of Moondust

An astronomer offers an explanation for mysterious putts of light on the lunar surface

Books