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The Seniors
Parting Words
Senior Vignettes West Lawn, Mostly by Sylvie Epstein On April 12th, 2022, I tweeted: “wearing overalls, eating such a good apple, walking...


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...

Stephen Dames
24/7, 4.5 stars.
After Anthony J’s Google Reviews By Stephen Dames Jeff always loved me. And I him. When I was a kid I used to go down to the 24/7 on...


Lynnette Widder
23/17/42
By Lynnette Widder 23. He is at a table beneath the fruit trees: the wind lifts, and pink petals sheet towards the crushed stone ground....

Will Lyman
Pursuing the Personal
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...

Jake Goidell
Kabul, Kyiv, Columbia
Tracing the experiences of displaced scholars at Columbia and threats to academic freedom. By Jake Goidell As the Taliban re-seized...

Eliza Rudalevige
Confessions of a Short-Term Sugar Baby
An unconventional avenue towards auxiliary income. By Eliza Burns I made my Seeking Arrangements profile in a post-drunk fit of...


Madison Hu
Maya Castronovo
By Madison Hu Pupin 428. 4 p.m. Green chalkboards peek out from behind a large projector screen. Popcorn sits precariously in my lap. My...


Kelsey Kitzke
Joey Recker
By Kelsey Kitzke I first met Joey Recker, CC ’23, in the Barnard anthropology class The Politics of Care, where we spent a semester...


Tara Zia
Through the Looking Glass
Finding escape in Chelsea’s eclectic gallery scene. By Tara Zia “It smells of cheap champagne … and sweat,” remarks a woman, laughing, as...

Shreya Khullar
Playing with Fire
Pale Fire Theater plays with audience-actor intimacy. By Shreya Khullar Sixty streets down from Columbia’s campus, a new world of student...
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