By Sona Wink The express 2 normally bullets between 72nd and 96th. It is a stretch that encapsulates the unstoppable forward momentum so...

Snuggle in, you're in for a great issue.

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...

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...

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...

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,...