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...

By Madison Hu when the light turns red, he will go home in the meantime, three friends walk arm to arm the baby is on his father’s...

Affirmative: By Dominic Wiharso Word travels fast. If you don’t want something spreading around, it’s in your best interest to lock that...

What do you value? By Vivien Sweet It is perhaps a given that an English professor contains multitudes. But Frances Negrón-Muntaner, the...

Don’t cross the intersection. By Sagar Castleman Edward Mendelson is the literary executor of W. H. Auden’s estate, the Lionel Trilling...

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

What happened to Columbia’s linguistics department? By Eva Spier The Columbia University linguistics major is a transplanted organ of...

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...

Unionization at Hex & Co. sets off a chain reaction among NYC board game cafes. By Eli Baum If you’re a real board-gamer in Morningside...

By Muni Suleiman Olivia Treynor, BC ’24, plays a version of Scrabble that transcends the dictionary. “I just think it makes it so much...

Jewish Voice for Peace offers community for Columbia’s forgotten Jews. By Maya Lerman It’s sunset, a woman announces. She places down...

by Miska Lewis Earlier this semester, pink flyers popped up across Columbia’s buildings advertising “Mother Tongue’s Inaugural Picnic:...

by Vivien Sweet There is an uncanny preference for the acronym at Barnard. Within the CCIS, the Consortium for Critical Interdisciplinary...

By Andrea Contreras In the otherwise quiet Milstein Library, Nyra Wise, BC ’24, and Tandile Jackson-Vinson, BC ’24, found themselves bent...

Campus is beautiful and we can’t see why. By Alice Tecotzky As November comes to a close and the final stubborn leaves drop off of the...

Leaps of faith at the Maison Française. By George Murphy Like many Columbia students, I have commitment issues—with languages, that is....

Isamu Noguchi’s unrealized vision. By Iris Chen Last summer I read John Berger’s essay “How to Live with Stones” and it led me to what I...

A love letter to Afrofuturism, acknowledgments of the past, and visions of the future. By Chris Brown Some glad morning, When this life...