This summer, the undergraduate course was offered in an accelerated format during Columbia Summer Session. After a deep dive ...

Like Paris in the 1920s, New York in the 1960s was a center of artistic innovation. As James Hoberman, adjunct professor of film and media studies at School of the Arts, shows in his book, Everything ...

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In Language City, Ross Perlin, a linguist, takes readers on a tour of the city’s communities with endangered tongues.

In Love, Money, Duty, Rachel Adams explores care as a form of work, a feeling, an ethic, and an art. Combining readings of writers and artists—among them, Toni Morrison, Susan Sontag, Roz Chast, Sally ...

College or graduate school may be over, but a lifetime of reading awaits. From James Shapiro's The Playbook, which is about the Federal Theatre Project, a Works Progress Administration program that, ...

What has gold done to people? What has it made them do? The Witwatersrand in South Africa, once home to the world’s richest goldfields, is today scattered with abandoned mines into which informal ...

The moment a person steps off the street and into a restaurant—to take just one example—the brain mentally starts a new “chapter” of the day, a change that causes a big shift in brain activity. Shifts ...

As the start of the 2024-2025 academic year approaches, Columbia’s Task Force on Antisemitism has released its second set of recommendations. Grounded in extensive meetings with students, the report ...