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Katherine Brewster
On campus organizing and second-wave feminism. By Schuyler Daffey A woman with a silver bob waits for me at a table outside Le Monde on...
Schuyler Daffey


Jhumpa Lahiri
On origins, Ovid, and Italy. By Miska Lewis and Becky Miller When Jhumpa Lahiri, BC ’89, came to Barnard as a freshman, she visited her...
Miska Lewis and Becky Miller


Hannah Goldfield
By Anouk Jouffret The New York air was damp and heavy as I waited for my lunch partner outside of Tacombi’s new venture, a Mexico...

Anouk Jouffret


Eliza Shapiro
On journalism, education reform, and a Lerner 555 Bat Mitzvah. By Sylvie Epstein Not long ago, our magazine was exclusively a print...

Sylvie Epstein


Tanea Lunsford Lynx
Where you come from, there is a culture. By Muni Suleiman Between 23andMe and Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., it's safe...

Muni Suleiman


Olive Nwosu
In defense of the troublemaker.

Victor Omojola


Elif Batuman
Is that life or is that literature?

Cole Cahill


Jennifer Hirsch
The stories we tell about our sexual selves.

Andrea Contreras


Margo Jefferson
True to oneself! Which Self?

Dominy Gallo


George Chauncey
On the (un)masking of nascent histories.

Benjamine Mo


Premilla Nadasen
The continuous work of history.

Kelsey Kitzke


Michael Thaddeus
On whether Columbia’s number two ranking is rooted in falsehoods.

Sylvie Epstein


Denise Cruz
On smallness, play, and the beautiful collective.

Eliza Rudalevige


Crystal Finn
The gift of the clown up and down Broadway.

Maya Weed


Ann Douglas
On Beats, Bollinger, and burgers.

Sam Needleman


Sonya Douglass
On designing the new Black studies curriculum for New York City public schools.

Ellida Parker


Dean Spade
Practicing people power.

Kelsey Kitzke


Sharon Marcus
On the stories we tell and the stories we don’t about the women who don’t quite fit in.

Dominy Gallo


Marianne Williamson
We're all just drunks in this room.

Nicole Kohut


Arie Esiri
On Naija neorealism.

Victor Omojola
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