On difficult questions and extremely long jokes. By Ava Lozner Illustration by Em Bennett (Ok, so a penguin … wait—One day, a penguin...

Re-reading Federico García Lorca’s “Poet in New York.” By George Murphy “There has been no more terribly acute critic of America than...

On memory, silhouettes, and other people’s houses. By Gabriela McBride Illustrations by Kathleen Halley-Segal  Kathleen sat on my blue...

The Choice We All Make: Campus Politics and Self Definition. By Eva Spier Illustration by Phoebe Wagoner — — —  “The remaking of life!...

Professors on protest and Palestine in the classroom By Maya Lerman  It’s the first day of the semester, and I feel lost in...

Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the pub. By Josh Kazali In many ways, England is an unlikely candidate for Americans studying...

Or of the self.  By Kate Sibery Disclaimer: All translations in this piece (except for book titles) were done by the writer. “Dans ce...

On protests, community, and faith. By Henry Astor All names have been changed . In the early days of my study abroad, I found myself in...

On masterpieces and gender politics. By Shreya Khullar A few weeks into Art Humanities, I felt the urge to preempt my questions with a...

On Columbia’s Black literary magazine history By Muni Suleiman The 1970s were a meditative time for Black literature. If the ’60s were a...

The quest for fusion energy in Columbia’s Plasma Lab. By Sona Wink In Everything, Everywhere All at Once (2022) , a cosmic donut (more...

By Sofia Pirri Illustration by Jacqueline Subkhanberdina A blown-up image of Sofonisba Anguissola’s self-portrait illuminates the dark...

Reading Roberto Bolaño in New York City. By Maya Lerman “Drink up, boys, drink up and don’t worry, if we finish this bottle we’ll go down...

Annotation as a transgressive and generative practice. By Tara Zia “This is how you read a novel: you inhale the experience. So start...

A bar crawl through Columbia’s history. By Josh Kazali As happens to so many of us in our short Morningside stint, some friends and I...

What the father of African cinema taught me about independence and being alone. By Victor Omojola “Back in Dakar they must be saying:...

The imposter paradox, post-affirmative action.

On the elusive, often unsuccessful form of the essay. By Will Lyman “The essay stages an encounter between an ‘I’ and the world in which...

An unconventional avenue towards auxiliary income. By Eliza Burns I made my Seeking Arrangements profile in a post-drunk fit of...

Effective Altruism provides a popular—and potentially dangerous—approach to modern ethics. By Stephen Dames “Could you guys keep it...