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The Woman Question
On masterpieces and gender politics. By Shreya Khullar A few weeks into Art Humanities, I felt the urge to preempt my questions with a...
Shreya Khullar


Senior Vignettes
You had to be there. Alice Tecotzky Two floors above 108th Street and Broadway lives a gray-blue couch, shaped like an L, adorned with a...
The Seniors


Finding Ourselves
Seeking portraits of the South Asian diaspora. By Sayuri Govender To me, diaspora has always felt like this: Half your mind is in your...
Sayuri Govender
The Material of the Matriline
By Aliza Yona Abusch-Magder My grandmother, my Oma, has hands I have come to know as a symbol: that feeling of being a ripening fruit on...
Aliza Yona Abusch-Magder


Is This Essay AI?
By Schuyler Daffey and Madison Hu Affirmative: Professor B sits at his desk in Barnard Hall, the fluorescent luminescence of Milstein his...
Schuyler Daffey and Madison Hu


Colm Tóibín
By Sager Castleman Two well-dressed people were walking out of Colm Tóibín’s office in Philosophy Hall when I arrived, more anxious than...
Sagar Castleman


Revisiting 1968
A legacy contested, a legacy revived. By Cecilia Zuniga The spirit of ’68 lingers today in the dimly lit corridors of Fayerweather Hall....
Cecilia Zuniga


Reaching for Black Heights
On Columbia’s Black literary magazine history By Muni Suleiman The 1970s were a meditative time for Black literature. If the ’60s were a...

Muni Suleiman


Through the Donut's Hole
The quest for fusion energy in Columbia’s Plasma Lab. By Sona Wink In Everything, Everywhere All at Once (2022) , a cosmic donut (more...

Sona Wink


Following the Vegetable Trail
The evasiveness of Columbia Dining about its food sources . By Phoebe Wagoner Last year, Hewitt’s “Activism Is About the Journey” mural...
Phoebe Wagoner


Memories of Paradise
Tracing the histories of a cosmopolitan sculpture. By George Murphy When Dr. Jin Xu was hired as an associate professor in the Department...
George Murphy


When Columbia Thaws
A tribute to the timelessness of Columbia’s lawns under the eye of the 2024 solar eclipse. By Chris Brown Author’s Statement: Ten days...
Chris Brown


Is This a Columbia Dining Event?
By Lucia Dec-Prat and Ava Lozner Illustration by Ellie Hodges Affirmative When I chose my first-year dining plan, I knew what I wanted:...

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Mother's Birthday
By Renny Gong It’s my mother’s birthday. I call her to say, I’m gonna dress like a slut tonight. We switch to FaceTime so I can show her...

The Blue and White Magazine


Bruce Robbins
Atrocity is not such a self-evident thing. By Sagar Castleman Bruce Robbins isn’t your ordinary English professor. Although his...

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Where Windows Gaze at Walls
How I learned to stop worrying and love the Grove. By Sam Hosmer At twilight on a partly cloudy day, climb six Low Steps and turn around...

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Mariah Barrera
By Shreya Khullar A young girl, armed with a camera and a red baseball cap, marches through a gentrified world. Her walk is split between...

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Casey Rogerson
By Victor Omojola Illustration by Jorja Garcia Casey Rogerson, CC ’24, doesn’t really work alone. This is not to say that the Bucks...

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Untitled
By Kate Sibery I had been looking for a hole in the ocean— so I decided to walk over to the East River but when I got there every person...

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Pedagogy of the Privileged
By Sofia Pirri Illustration by Jacqueline Subkhanberdina A blown-up image of Sofonisba Anguissola’s self-portrait illuminates the dark...

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