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Searching for Nothing
The joys of the Book Culture browse.
Willa Neubauer
Rescuing Jouissance
A personal history of taking back the night.
Sophie Poole
Obedience: Act I
On “perfect passivity” and what it means to be Guai.
Styvalizh Uribe
In Our Solitude
On the pandemic’s post-crisis feeling of loss.
Sylvie Epstein
When Resiliency Runs Out
What happens when you can’t outrun your illnesses anymore?
Elysa Caso-McHugh
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
The E-Word
An extended inquiry into Columbia’s coveted pile of oddly untouchable gold.
Lyla Trilling
The Limits of Accountability
A year on Columbia Debate Society.
Claire Shang
Who Are We Scrolling For?
Reflections on anonymity and abuse.
Kelsey Kitzke
“Big Problems” at Barnard
First-Year Experience directors offer bandaids for 2020’s many bullet holes.
Becky Miller
Pesky Pathologies
A wild goose chase for a therapist—in this economy!
Nicole Kohut
The Future is Femcel
Even in the celibate cybersphere, there’s a gender gap.
Chloë Gottlieb
Artists of Artifice
A dispatch from dispo culture.
Claire Shang
Something’s Gotta Give
Student donors won’t let their elite confines stop them from saving the world.
Bella Devaan
Zombie No Go Think, Unless You Tell Am To Think
From Nigeria to Columbia, Black solidarity to end police brutality.
Victor Omojola
Defund CU Athletics
Or at least let me onto the basketball team.
Michael Colton
The Cult of Brohood
Frats conceal sexual violence with mafia-style rules.
Lyla Trilling
Alone Together
Columbia’s global WeWork spaces foster quasi-communities.
Chloe Kok
Mind Over Matter
In a virtual environment, access to mental health support is more important—and impersonal—than ever.
Claire Schweitzer
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