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Selected Poems
By Thaleia Dasberg Illustrations by Phoebe Wagoner “simmer” over milkwashed fields plucking feathers off corn stalks bleeding I watch...
Thaleia Dasberg


Selected Poems
By Sofia Whetstone
Sofia Whetstone


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...
Schuyler Daffey


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 and Becky Miller


Drug of Choice
As Barnard rolls out medication abortion, student activists reflect on the past and future of reproductive healthcare on campus. By...

Miska Lewis


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,...
Sagar Castleman


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...
Amogh Dimri and Molly Leahy


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:...
Victor Omojola


Samara Huckvale
By Muni Suleiman The opening sequence of Them (2023) features main character Ira’s vibrant pink boots, jacket, hair, and hat, contrasting...

Muni Suleiman


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...
Sofia Pirri


Chicken Hunt
Our costumed writer tackles the neighborhood bar scene. Amogh Dimri Amid September’s first-month fervor, my friends and I decided to...

Amogh Dimiri


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...
Sam Hosmer


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...
Michael Onwutalu


Altruism, Butchered
Animal rights activists go to new extremes. By Vivien Sweet Amid posters urging students to audition for sketch comedy groups and...
Vivien Sweet
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