Joan Jonas
Sea creatures, magic shows, and inner spirits By Sona Wink I came to know Joan Jonas amidst unusual circumstances: We sat side by side...
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Alice Tecotxky
Lydia Liu and Anupama Rao
On language, our planet, and the chatbots. By Alice Tecotzky Watching Lydia Liu and Anupama Rao converse is like watching two bees zip...
Sagar Castleman
Colm Tóibín
By Sager Castleman Two well-dressed people were walking out of Colm Tóibín’s office in Philosophy Hall when I arrived, more anxious than...
The Blue and White Magazine
Bruce Robbins
Atrocity is not such a self-evident thing. By Sagar Castleman Bruce Robbins isn’t your ordinary English professor. Although his...
Vivien Sweet
Frances Negrón-Muntaner
What do you value? By Vivien Sweet It is perhaps a given that an English professor contains multitudes. But Frances Negrón-Muntaner, the...
Sagar Castleman
Edward Mendelson
Don’t cross the intersection. By Sagar Castleman Edward Mendelson is the literary executor of W. H. Auden’s estate, the Lionel Trilling...
Schuyler Daffey
Katherine Brewster
On campus organizing and second-wave feminism. By Schuyler Daffey A woman with a silver bob waits for me at a table outside Le Monde on...
Miska Lewis and Becky Miller
Jhumpa Lahiri
On origins, Ovid, and Italy. By Miska Lewis and Becky Miller When Jhumpa Lahiri, BC ’89, came to Barnard as a freshman, she visited her...
Anouk Jouffret
Hannah Goldfield
By Anouk Jouffret The New York air was damp and heavy as I waited for my lunch partner outside of Tacombi’s new venture, a Mexico...
Sylvie Epstein
Eliza Shapiro
On journalism, education reform, and a Lerner 555 Bat Mitzvah. By Sylvie Epstein Not long ago, our magazine was exclusively a print...
Muni Suleiman
Tanea Lunsford Lynx
Where you come from, there is a culture. By Muni Suleiman Between 23andMe and Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., it's safe...
Sylvie Epstein
Michael Thaddeus
On whether Columbia’s number two ranking is rooted in falsehoods.
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