Claire Shang
Letter from the Editor, December 2022
By Claire Shang A peculiarity reveals itself in this month’s pieces. Maybe it’s just the ever-wistful advent of the semester’s end, but...
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Claire Shang
Letter from the Editor, November 2022
By Claire Shang A good deal of the pieces this issue are, in various ways, about New York, which is to say they are about landmarks and...
Claire Shang
Letter from the Editor, NSOP 2022
By Claire Shang Of this summer’s happenings, the closing of Max Caffè was far from the most important. But eulogizing a place has endless...
Claire Shang
Letter from the Editor, May 2022
By Claire Shang It’s May. Just when everyone feels they’ve gotten in the swing of things, suddenly everything is over. People are...
Claire Shang
Letter from the Editor, April 2022
Earlier this month, scrolling through Elon Musk–owned Twitter, I came across some 2020 data on the subscription base of Harper’s...
Claire Shang
Letter from the Editor, March 2022
This is my favorite time of year—just before spring unfurls in full, when each new day of sunlight still feels like a gift to be marveled...
Dominy Gallo and Lyla Trilling
Letter From the Editor, December 2021
I don’t know how I’ll ever write this last letter.
Dominy Gallo
Letter From the Editor, September 2021
The Blue and White staff certainly looks good in blue and white.
Dominy Gallo
Letter From the Editor, March 2021
Our magazine isn’t a magazine at all: It’s music.
Sam Needleman
Letter From the Editor, December 2020
Lacunae are, first and foremost, textual chasms—gaps on the page where something once was, or where something could be. They’re the...
Sam Needleman
Letter From the Editor, November 2020
By Sam Needleman Bereft of cohesion, and hardly expecting any looming events to provide it, our editors chose to bind this issue of The...
Sam Needleman
Letter from the Editor, Orientation 2020
Sam Needleman This month, in his profile of Anjali Verma (Off-Campus Characters, p. 12), Staff Writer Jaden Jarmel-Schneider writes about...
Sam Needleman
Letter from the Editor, May 2020
By Sam Needleman This isn’t how it was supposed to go! We were working on our April issue when the Bad News came, and we were forced to...
Ufon Umanah
Letter from the Editor, December 2019
Ufon Umanah Ah, there it is, silly old Columbia. The more I write about, there it is, silly old Columbia. The more I write about it, the...
Ufon Umanah
Letter from the Editor, April 2019
By Ufon Umanah There’s no more important task before us than the preservation of history. I’m not saying this because without history,...
Caroline Hurley
Letter From the Editor, December 2018
By Caroline Hurley You think you know someone until it comes time to buy them a Christmas gift. You’re frantically browsing Oprah...
Caroline Hurley
Letter From the Editor, October 2018
By Caroline Hurley I think that there’s something to be said for confusion; that feeling of untethered loss; that state of cognitive...
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