By Sager Castleman Two well-dressed people were walking out of Colm Tóibín’s office in Philosophy Hall when I arrived, more anxious than...

A legacy contested, a legacy revived. By Cecilia Zuniga The spirit of ’68 lingers today in the dimly lit corridors of Fayerweather Hall....

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...

The evasiveness of Columbia Dining about its food sources . By Phoebe Wagoner Last year, Hewitt’s “Activism Is About the Journey” mural...

Tracing the histories of a cosmopolitan sculpture. By George Murphy When Dr. Jin Xu was hired as an associate professor in the Department...

A tribute to the timelessness of Columbia’s lawns under the eye of the 2024 solar eclipse. By Chris Brown Author’s Statement: Ten days...

By Lucia Dec-Prat and Ava Lozner Illustration by Ellie Hodges Affirmative When I chose my first-year dining plan, I knew what I wanted:...

By Renny Gong It’s my mother’s birthday. I call her to say, I’m gonna dress like a slut tonight. We switch to FaceTime so I can show her...

Atrocity is not such a self-evident thing. By Sagar Castleman Bruce Robbins isn’t your ordinary English professor. Although his...

How I learned to stop worrying and love the Grove. By Sam Hosmer At twilight on a partly cloudy day, climb six Low Steps and turn around...

By Shreya Khullar A young girl, armed with a camera and a red baseball cap, marches through a gentrified world. Her walk is split between...

By Victor Omojola Illustration by Jorja Garcia Casey Rogerson, CC ’24, doesn’t really work alone. This is not to say that the Bucks...

By Kate Sibery I had been looking for a hole in the ocean— so I decided to walk over to the East River but when I got there every person...

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...

Who gets to tell their story, and what do they get to say? By Muni Suleiman From griots to gossip and Homer to hearsay, you come from a...

Rethinking Greek tragedy in “Bacchae: The Immersive Experience.” By George Murphy Illustration by Derin Ogutcu It is twilight, and a...

On improvisation in the ever-eclectic Barnard dance class. By Molly Murch I could have been hypnotized. With a steady drum beat...

By Avery Reed Auburn, New York, 2022 It’s Sunday afternoon and you’re knitting again. The oxygen machine whirs and you swat the air as a...