On 112th and Amsterdam lies a Columbia staple. Over the years, Book Culture has become an integral part of most Columbia students’ lives....

By Sam Needleman It was once ordained, by a soul whose name and major have since given over to the winds of time, that: “On the Last...

In this desert, the sky is yellow and Biblical In a small house with an unending yard that lolls into an arid hillside: she hems dresses,...

Students pay the bill when it comes to free speech, but what if they didn't have to?

Mary Schmich's metro journalism. By Grace Adee Mary Schmich has been a metro columnist for the Chicago Tribune since 1992. In 2012, she...

The Blue and White continues its short fiction series with a story from a recent graduate from Columbia College.

Affirmative By Nora May McSorley If you’re considering it, then you may actually have the brains admissions thinks you do. Otherwise, you...

It’s not that being a part of the Columbia Democrats and serving as their president last year was out of the question for Joanna Cohen...

On average, Sean Kelso sees a new movie every week. One of his most recent favorites was The Art of Self-Defense, a small-release film...

Illustration by Mwandeyi Kamwendo

“Don’t be afraid,” starts A Mercy, Toni Morrison’s ninth novel. No, it’s not the book we read for Lit Hum, but it was the first time I...

Administrative chicanery, Wu + Nussbaum's glow-up, and the peacocks of St. John's.

By Kate Steiner

By Jacob Snyder Are you easily fatigued? Are you often disorganized or indecisive? Do you experience recurrent disturbances in appetite?...

By Drazen Medina Many of us pass through these years at our respective schools wondering what mark, if any, we have made on our peers and...

For Israeli Apartheid Week, Professor Joseph Massad draws connections between Zionism and anti-Semitism.

The Blue and White takes a long-range look at Barnard Public Safety By The Blue and White Before the encounter on April 11, 2019–you have...

By Ufon Umanah There’s no more important task before us than the preservation of history. I’m not saying this because without history,...