top of page
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...
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...
Sagar Castleman
Nuss and Them
A tenants’ rights attorney revisits the building, and people, he devoted much of his career to. By Sagar Castleman In the early 1970s,...
Amogh Dimri and Molly Leahy
Did You Pass the Background Check?
By Amogh Dimri and Molly Leahy Congratulations on being admitted to INSIDE THE SITUATION ROOM with Former United States Secretary of...
Victor Omojola
Ousmane and I
What the father of African cinema taught me about independence and being alone. By Victor Omojola “Back in Dakar they must be saying:...
Muni Suleiman
Samara Huckvale
By Muni Suleiman The opening sequence of Them (2023) features main character Ira’s vibrant pink boots, jacket, hair, and hat, contrasting...
Sofia Pirri
Chambit Miller
By Sofia Pirri On Aug. 26, 2023, Chambit Miller, CC ’24, was at a fried chicken restaurant in Lima. Surrounded by her Peruvian lover and...
Amogh Dimiri
Chicken Hunt
Our costumed writer tackles the neighborhood bar scene. Amogh Dimri Amid September’s first-month fervor, my friends and I decided to...
Sam Hosmer
Long-Term Parking
A tribute to a forgotten pocket of campus. By Sam Hosmer Last semester I encountered a sealed, abandoned, turn-of-the-century Otis...
Michael Onwutalu
The Perils of Place
Ed Ruscha’s liminal gas station holds up a mirror to campus. By Michael Onwutalu Exactly a month after I arrived in New York, I found...
Vivien Sweet
Altruism, Butchered
Animal rights activists go to new extremes. By Vivien Sweet Amid posters urging students to audition for sketch comedy groups and...
Anouk Jouffret
Hannah Goldfield
By Anouk Jouffret The New York air was damp and heavy as I waited for my lunch partner outside of Tacombi’s new venture, a Mexico...
Muni Suleiman
Queering Columbia
Reviewing the life, death, and preservation of LGBTQ+ community spaces on campus. By Muni Suleiman When you open Queering the Map, you’re...
Madison Hu and Miska Lewis
will.i.am?
By Madison Hu and Miska Lewis Affirmative My roommate Lila is drunk in the corner mumbling the classic will.i.am lyric about “screaming...
Henry Astor
The Pit
By Henry Astor “The greatest crime in the world is not developing your potential.” – Roger Williams. Or so read the etching on the facade...
Stephen Dames
Renny Gong
By Stephen Dames I first met Renny Gong, CC ’24, two years ago while attending a potluck dinner for new members of 4x4 Magazine. Sitting...
Becky Miller
Vanessa Tasé Sueiro
By Becky Miller If you are searching for Vanessa Tasé Suiero, as people in Morningside Heights often are, she can usually be found at...
Anna Patchefsky
Cloudy with a Chance of Haze
An online weatherman puts the personal back in forecasting.
bottom of page