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Thaleia Dasberg
Selected Poems
By Thaleia Dasberg Illustrations by Phoebe Wagoner “simmer” over milkwashed fields plucking feathers off corn stalks bleeding I watch...



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...


Miska Lewis
Drug of Choice
As Barnard rolls out medication abortion, student activists reflect on the past and future of reproductive healthcare on campus. By...


Sagar Castleman
Nuss and Them
A tenants’ rights attorney revisits the building, and people, he devoted much of his career to. By Sagar Castleman In the early 1970s,...

Amogh Dimri and Molly Leahy
Did You Pass the Background Check?
By Amogh Dimri and Molly Leahy Congratulations on being admitted to INSIDE THE SITUATION ROOM with Former United States Secretary of...


Victor Omojola
Ousmane and I
What the father of African cinema taught me about independence and being alone. By Victor Omojola “Back in Dakar they must be saying:...


Muni Suleiman
Samara Huckvale
By Muni Suleiman The opening sequence of Them (2023) features main character Ira’s vibrant pink boots, jacket, hair, and hat, contrasting...


Sofia Pirri
Chambit Miller
By Sofia Pirri On Aug. 26, 2023, Chambit Miller, CC ’24, was at a fried chicken restaurant in Lima. Surrounded by her Peruvian lover and...


Amogh Dimiri
Chicken Hunt
Our costumed writer tackles the neighborhood bar scene. Amogh Dimri Amid September’s first-month fervor, my friends and I decided to...


Sam Hosmer
Long-Term Parking
A tribute to a forgotten pocket of campus. By Sam Hosmer Last semester I encountered a sealed, abandoned, turn-of-the-century Otis...


Michael Onwutalu
The Perils of Place
Ed Ruscha’s liminal gas station holds up a mirror to campus. By Michael Onwutalu Exactly a month after I arrived in New York, I found...


Vivien Sweet
Altruism, Butchered
Animal rights activists go to new extremes. By Vivien Sweet Amid posters urging students to audition for sketch comedy groups and...
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