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Is This a Columbia Dining Event?
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:...
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Mother's Birthday
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...
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Bruce Robbins
Atrocity is not such a self-evident thing. By Sagar Castleman Bruce Robbins isn’t your ordinary English professor. Although his...
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Where Windows Gaze at Walls
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...
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Mariah Barrera
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...
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Casey Rogerson
By Victor Omojola Illustration by Jorja Garcia Casey Rogerson, CC ’24, doesn’t really work alone. This is not to say that the Bucks...
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Pedagogy of the Privileged
By Sofia Pirri Illustration by Jacqueline Subkhanberdina A blown-up image of Sofonisba Anguissola’s self-portrait illuminates the dark...
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Literary Afterlives of the 20th Century
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...
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The Gaps in the Record
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...
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Euripides, Revisited
Rethinking Greek tragedy in “Bacchae: The Immersive Experience.” By George Murphy Illustration by Derin Ogutcu It is twilight, and a...
Molly Murch
I Woke up in Studio 306
On improvisation in the ever-eclectic Barnard dance class. By Molly Murch I could have been hypnotized. With a steady drum beat...
Avery Reed
Teeth and Zoology: A Fable
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...
Madison Hu
Going Home
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...
Dominic Wiharso and Josh Kazali
Do you know my secret?
Affirmative: By Dominic Wiharso Word travels fast. If you don’t want something spreading around, it’s in your best interest to lock that...
Vivien Sweet
Frances Negrón-Muntaner
What do you value? By Vivien Sweet It is perhaps a given that an English professor contains multitudes. But Frances Negrón-Muntaner, the...
Sagar Castleman
Edward Mendelson
Don’t cross the intersection. By Sagar Castleman Edward Mendelson is the literary executor of W. H. Auden’s estate, the Lionel Trilling...
Tara Isabel Zia
Out of the Margins
Annotation as a transgressive and generative practice. By Tara Zia “This is how you read a novel: you inhale the experience. So start...
Eva Spier
He Cut That Cake With a Knife
What happened to Columbia’s linguistics department? By Eva Spier The Columbia University linguistics major is a transplanted organ of...
Josh Kazali
In Search of Lost Pints
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...
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