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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...

Recently I remarked to a friend how it felt to visit Carman 10 after almost two years since I moved out. Looking out the window by the...

By David Alexander Swanson Thanksgiving has passed. Out march the elves and the reindeer, the snowmen and candy canes in their cohorts....

By David Alexander Swanson To the Class of 2021, allow me to be the 600th to welcome you to our hallowed halls, and to be the first to...

by Alex Swanson There’s a particular sense of dejection on campus around midterms. I myself write this, sleep deprived, writing-hand in...

Writing my first Editor-in-chief’s letter a day after the inauguration of President Trump puts me in quite the odd position. The syzygy...

During my freshman year I tripped while walking up the stairs in Ferris and cut my head without realizing it. I got up thinking I was...

It has become somewhat of a summer tradition for me to make a very ambitious to-do list (this year’s included learning to program in Java...