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In Review: "After the End: Timing Socialism in Africa"
Works by Mozambican Artists shine brightest in the Wallach's fall show.

Sam Needleman


In Review: "1919: Black Water"
Buell brings the brilliant Torkwase Dyson to campus. By Sam Needleman · Published November 11, 2019. While dogged administrators...

Sam Needleman


The Blue Jay: Episode 5
Featuring an interview with Maureen Raymo, the Director of the Lamont-Doherty Core Repository at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of...

The Blue and White Magazine
Wait, Just One Question: Happiness – PART 2
The second installment of a graphic series detailing interviews with Columbia’s spiritual advisors on the definition of happiness. By Kat...

The Blue and White Magazine
Letter from a Jewess of Color
Tackling Ashkenormativity. By Noa Fay. A Jewish woman. If you are an American reading this, you likely pictured an Ashkenazi woman—a...
Noa Fay


Blue Notes, November 2020
On the inflatable rat, dining alone, student voter turnout, and the politics of Zoom names. By Raquel Turner, Hailey Ryan, Sylvie Epstein...
Raquel Turner, Hailey Ryan, Sylvie Epstein, Eduardo Espinosa


Wait, Just One Question: Happiness – PART 1
The first installment of a graphic series detailing interviews with Columbia’s spiritual advisors on the definition of happiness. By Kat...
Kat Chen


Blue Book, November 2020
How to Do Fall Like a Brooklyn Alt-Indie Chick. The complete guide to looking like you’ve attended every LCD Soundsystem show. By Malia...

The Blue and White Magazine


Joon Baek
By Benjamine Mo Ours is a community of change. As our institution contends with the existential threats of disease and dispersal, student...

Benjamine Mo


Uwade Akhere
By Jaden Jarmel-Schneider Uwade Akhere, CC ‘21, launched her singing career at a ’70s themed fifth-grade talent show. She’d grown up in...
Jaden Jarmel-Schneider


Oscar yi Hou
Oscar yi Hou, CC ‘20, paints people—not just as bodies, nor as the reduced, essentialized products of liberal identity politics, but people

Lilly Cao


Letter From the Editor, November 2020
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


In Which Our Hero Takes a Gap Semester
Well, this just won’t do, thought Verily as he opened President Bollinger’s infamously verbose, oft-lampooned email announcing the complete
Hailey Ryan


Doodling Dissent
Sergio Peçanha on visual storytelling, journalism in the Trump era, and keeping your head up in the face of absurdity.

Dominy Gallo


The Neurons of Novels
It was a Thursday morning in September and, like any self-respecting undergraduate woefully majoring in English, I opened The New Yorker app

Sophie Poole


Postcard From Morningside, November 2020
#November2020

Kat Chen


The Climate Fight’s New Stronghold
Attentive observers recognize that climate change impacts and is impacted by everything we do—from the food we eat to the energy we consume

Elizabeth Jackson


Commonplace Resilience
The sun consumes the streets, rescuing the asphalt from the burgeoning October chill.

Annelie Hyatt


Was That Good for You (the Sex)?
I always knew I’d lose my virginity in college.
Nicole Kohut and Michael Colton


The Antiquation of Antiquity
While the Core Curriculum may advertise itself as the immovable benchmark of the Columbia experience, it has yielded to widespread pedagogic
Nicole Kohut and Claire Schweitzer
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