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Backtrack
By Gracie Moran No need to search my helices to find my creator, just see me right here in this rotten mood, inhaling like I want to...
Gracie Moran
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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...

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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...
Gracie Moran
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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...
Maya Lerman and Ava Lozner
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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...
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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...
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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...
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An American in Wetherspoons
Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the pub. By Josh Kazali Illustration by Jacqueline Subkhanberdina In many ways, England is an...

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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...
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Grit and Glory
Columbia athletes’ path to the 2024 Paris Olympics By Shreya Khullar Illustration by Ellie Hodges Everyone is silent. There is jostling,...
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The President Next Door
Shafik’s resignation and the role of the University President . By Chris Brown “If [administrators] are really concerned with discovering...
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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...
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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...
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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...

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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...

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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...
Shreya Khullar
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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