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Aliza Yona Abusch-Magder
The Material of the Matriline
By Aliza Yona Abusch-Magder My grandmother, my Oma, has hands I have come to know as a symbol: that feeling of being a ripening fruit on...
Schuyler Daffey and Madison Hu
Is This Essay AI?
By Schuyler Daffey and Madison Hu Affirmative: Professor B sits at his desk in Barnard Hall, the fluorescent luminescence of Milstein his...
Maya Lerman
Atish Saha
By Maya Lerman I had heard about Atish Saha, GS ’24, through my grapevine of idealistic film major friends long before I got the chance...
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...
Cecilia Zuniga
Revisiting 1968
A legacy contested, a legacy revived. By Cecilia Zuniga The spirit of ’68 lingers today in the dimly lit corridors of Fayerweather Hall....
Muni Suleiman
Reaching for Black Heights
On Columbia’s Black literary magazine history By Muni Suleiman The 1970s were a meditative time for Black literature. If the ’60s were a...
Sona Wink
Through the Donut's Hole
The quest for fusion energy in Columbia’s Plasma Lab. By Sona Wink In Everything, Everywhere All at Once (2022) , a cosmic donut (more...
Phoebe Wagoner
Following the Vegetable Trail
The evasiveness of Columbia Dining about its food sources . By Phoebe Wagoner Last year, Hewitt’s “Activism Is About the Journey” mural...
George Murphy
Memories of Paradise
Tracing the histories of a cosmopolitan sculpture. By George Murphy When Dr. Jin Xu was hired as an associate professor in the Department...
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