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Sona Wink
The Rupture of Low Plaza
Grappling with the aftermath of spring arrests, in Uris. By Sona Wink I remember the feeling I got when I first visited Columbia and...


Gracie Moran
St. Stephen’s Green, and Everywhere Else
By Gracie Moran I saw chilled extremities stretched over the bridge’s ledge, ducks creeping through the pond in St. Stephen’s Green like...

Maya Lerman and Ava Lozner
Am I an Academic Weapon?
By Maya Lerman and Ava Lozner Affirmative I still can’t believe I’m here at Columbia, my dream school! To stand here on Low Steps, in the...


Sona Wink
Joan Jonas
Sea creatures, magic shows, and inner spirits By Sona Wink I came to know Joan Jonas amidst unusual circumstances: We sat side by side...
George Murphy
Wandering Stars
By George Murphy No city lights scrape away our stars here. The wind comes and goes in darkness, and owls softly boom, as small creatures...
George Murphy
Flowers
By George Murphy Saturday and we are lost in a sea of cherry-billows, alone together.  We lie down, reach our roots deep, and pour...

Josh Kazali
An American in Wetherspoons
Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the pub. By Josh Kazali In many ways, England is an unlikely candidate for Americans studying...

Kate Sibery
In Defense of French Autofiction
Or of the self. By Kate Sibery Disclaimer: All translations in this piece (except for book titles) were done by the writer. “Dans ce...


Shreya Khullar
Grit and Glory
Columbia athletes’ path to the 2024 Paris Olympics By Shreya Khullar Everyone is silent. There is jostling, the brisk squeaking of shoes,...

Chris Brown
The President Next Door
Shafik’s resignation and the role of the University President. By Chris Brown “If [administrators] are really concerned with discovering...
Remi Seamon
Selected Poems
By Remi Seamon Meanwhile, Siberia Long weeks full of swallowing and goodbyes, full of lining up next to caskets to receive strange kisses...

Alice Tecotxky
Lydia Liu and Anupama Rao
On language, our planet, and the chatbots. By Alice Tecotzky Watching Lydia Liu and Anupama Rao converse is like watching two bees zip...

Jorja Garcia
Making (Non)sense
A history of the zine. By Jorja Garcia A few weeks ago, in order to procrastinate a Contemporary Civilization assignment, I spent yet...

Henry Astor
Senza se, senza ma
On protests, community, and faith. By Henry Astor All names have been changed . In the early days of my study abroad, I found myself in...


Shreya Khullar
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...


The Seniors
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...


Sayuri Govender
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...
Aliza Yona Abusch-Magder
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...

Schuyler Daffey and Madison Hu
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...

Maya Lerman
Atish Saha
By Maya Lerman I had heard about Atish Saha, GS ’24, through my grapevine of idealistic film major friends long before I got the chance...
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