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...
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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...
Eli Baum
Revolt of the Nerds
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...
Muni Suleiman
Olivia Treynor
By Muni Suleiman Olivia Treynor, BC ’24, plays a version of Scrabble that transcends the dictionary. “I just think it makes it so much...
Maya Lerman
A Shabbat of Our Own
Jewish Voice for Peace offers community for Columbia’s forgotten Jews. By Maya Lerman It’s sunset, a woman announces. She places down...
Miska Lewis
Kit Malloy
by Miska Lewis Earlier this semester, pink flyers popped up across Columbia’s buildings advertising “Mother Tongue’s Inaugural Picnic:...
Vivien Sweet
Mariame Sissoko
by Vivien Sweet There is an uncanny preference for the acronym at Barnard. Within the CCIS, the Consortium for Critical Interdisciplinary...
Andrea Contreras
Nyra Wise and Tandile Jackson-Vinson
By Andrea Contreras In the otherwise quiet Milstein Library, Nyra Wise, BC ’24, and Tandile Jackson-Vinson, BC ’24, found themselves bent...
Alice Tecotxky
Left in the Dark
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...
George Murphy
Parlez-vous Anglais?
Leaps of faith at the Maison Française. By George Murphy Like many Columbia students, I have commitment issues—with languages, that is....
Iris Chen
The Artist’s Playground
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...
Chris Brown
A Time Before Yesterday
A love letter to Afrofuturism, acknowledgments of the past, and visions of the future. By Chris Brown Some glad morning, When this life...
Thaleia Dasberg
Selected Poems
By Thaleia Dasberg “simmer” over milkwashed fields plucking feathers off corn stalks bleeding I watch you steam you smoked thing boots...
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