By Claire Shang It’s May. Just when everyone feels they’ve gotten in the swing of things, suddenly everything is over. People are...

Earlier this month, scrolling through Elon Musk–owned Twitter, I came across some 2020 data on the subscription base of Harper’s...

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...

I don’t know how I’ll ever write this last letter.

Old habits die hard.

The Blue and White staff certainly looks good in blue and white.

Death to the ban on hugs.

Here’s to new light.

Our magazine isn’t a magazine at all: It’s music.

Lacunae are, first and foremost, textual chasms—gaps on the page where something once was, or where something could be. They’re the...

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 This month, in his profile of Anjali Verma (Off-Campus Characters, p. 12), Staff Writer Jaden Jarmel-Schneider writes about...

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 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...

By Ufon Umanah There’s no more important task before us than the preservation of history. I’m not saying this because without history,...

By Caroline Hurley You think you know someone until it comes time to buy them a Christmas gift. You’re frantically browsing Oprah...

By Caroline Hurley I think that there’s something to be said for confusion; that feeling of untethered loss; that state of cognitive...

The first picture of me as a student on campus was taken unsurprisingly on move-in day, unsurprisingly by my mom. It’s a series of...

I’ll admit it–when Professor Erik Gray brought up Lionel Trilling in this month’s Conversation interview (pg. 20), I had absolutely no...

The Major League Baseball home opener for my hometown team is April 5th this year. The Yankees take to the diamond on April 2nd—who cares...