Frances Negrón-Muntaner
What do you value? By Vivien Sweet It is perhaps a given that an English professor contains multitudes. But Frances Negrón-Muntaner, the...
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Sagar Castleman
Edward Mendelson
Don’t cross the intersection. By Sagar Castleman Edward Mendelson is the literary executor of W. H. Auden’s estate, the Lionel Trilling...
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Tara Isabel Zia
Out of the Margins
Annotation as a transgressive and generative practice. By Tara Zia “This is how you read a novel: you inhale the experience. So start...
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Eva Spier
He Cut That Cake With a Knife
What happened to Columbia’s linguistics department? By Eva Spier The Columbia University linguistics major is a transplanted organ of...
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Josh Kazali
In Search of Lost Pints
A bar crawl through Columbia’s history. By Josh Kazali As happens to so many of us in our short Morningside stint, some friends and I...
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Eli Baum
Revolt of the Nerds
Unionization at Hex & Co. sets off a chain reaction among NYC board game cafes. By Eli Baum If you’re a real board-gamer in Morningside...
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Muni Suleiman
Olivia Treynor
By Muni Suleiman Olivia Treynor, BC ’24, plays a version of Scrabble that transcends the dictionary. “I just think it makes it so much...
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Maya Lerman
A Shabbat of Our Own
Jewish Voice for Peace offers community for Columbia’s forgotten Jews. By Maya Lerman It’s sunset, a woman announces. She places down...
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Miska Lewis
Kit Malloy
by Miska Lewis Earlier this semester, pink flyers popped up across Columbia’s buildings advertising “Mother Tongue’s Inaugural Picnic:...
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Vivien Sweet
Mariame Sissoko
by Vivien Sweet There is an uncanny preference for the acronym at Barnard. Within the CCIS, the Consortium for Critical Interdisciplinary...
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Andrea Contreras
Nyra Wise and Tandile Jackson-Vinson
By Andrea Contreras In the otherwise quiet Milstein Library, Nyra Wise, BC ’24, and Tandile Jackson-Vinson, BC ’24, found themselves bent...
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Alice Tecotxky
Left in the Dark
Campus is beautiful and we can’t see why. By Alice Tecotzky As November comes to a close and the final stubborn leaves drop off of the...
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George Murphy
Parlez-vous Anglais?
Leaps of faith at the Maison Française. By George Murphy Like many Columbia students, I have commitment issues—with languages, that is....
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Iris Chen
The Artist’s Playground
Isamu Noguchi’s unrealized vision. By Iris Chen Last summer I read John Berger’s essay “How to Live with Stones” and it led me to what I...
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Chris Brown
A Time Before Yesterday
A love letter to Afrofuturism, acknowledgments of the past, and visions of the future. By Chris Brown Some glad morning, When this life...
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Thaleia Dasberg
Selected Poems
By Thaleia Dasberg Illustrations by Phoebe Wagoner “simmer” over milkwashed fields plucking feathers off corn stalks bleeding I watch...
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Schuyler Daffey
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...
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Miska Lewis and Becky Miller
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...
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Miska Lewis
Drug of Choice
As Barnard rolls out medication abortion, student activists reflect on the past and future of reproductive healthcare on campus. By...
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