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The Crossword, April 2021
"Happy May Day"

Cy Gilman


Letter From the Editor, April 2021
Here’s to new light.

Dominy Gallo


Gesamtkunstwerk
On January 30th, 2021 at roughly 4 a.m. ...

Adam Glusker


In Which Our Hero Appeals to Lesser Intellects
My Dear Sir ...

Verily Veritas


Courting at the Cloisters
Medieval mystique meets modern love.

Jaden Jarmel-Schneider


Anyone Can Cook!
On kitchen concoctions in the stay-at-home age of Covid.

Sylvie Epstein


Do These Sound Like Vaccine Side Effects to You?
Affirmative by Victor Omojola, Negative by Elysa Caso-McHugh

Victor Omojola and Elysa Caso-McHugh


When Resiliency Runs Out
What happens when you can’t outrun your illnesses anymore?

Elysa Caso-McHugh


Khadija Hussain
Khadija Hussain, BC '21, wants students to think critically.

Tarini Krishna


All of That Stuff Gets Built!
Mabel O. Wilson on architecture and Blackness.

Sam Needleman


Are You Really Passionate About Your Major?
Affirmative by Claire Schweitzer, Negative by Tarini Krishna

Claire Schweitzer and Tarini Krishna


Little, Black, and Bold
Andi Owens, GS ’63, on Aeschylus’s Agamemnon, Harlem walking tours, and being Black at Columbia in the ’60s.

Willa Neubauer


Welcome to Hotel Covid
A look inside New York’s hottest and most contagious deal.

Chase Cutarelli


Labor of Love
Professor couples on their marriage of the head and the heart.

Maya Weed


“Students First”
Under Chegg’s corporate strategy, student insecurity is a marketable good.

Cy Gilman


Alexandra Waterbury
By Samantha Sacks I remember seeing Alexandra Waterbury, G.S. ’21, for the first time at the water fountain outside studio 1 in Barnard...

Samantha Sacks


A New Era for Barnard Tap
The hiring of a legend promises change for the Barnard dance department.

Eliza Rudalevige


A Senior Send-off
Three graduating B&W’ers find unlikely love in a hopeless place.

The Blue and White Magazine


KGB + The Machine
Robo-poetry reveals the shortcomings of AI—and our need for human M4M submissions.
Kat Chen, Gaby Edwards, and Benjamine Mo


The E-Word
An extended inquiry into Columbia’s coveted pile of oddly untouchable gold.

Lyla Trilling
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