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Lucia Aniello in Hacks
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Lucia Aniello Hacks the System

The executive producer, writer, and director shares her unusual path to the top

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The Final Fate of the Voting Rights Act

Recent Supreme Court rulings have hollowed out the landmark 1965 legislation, which sought to prevent racial discrimination in voting

Jeff Bridges and Barbara Streisand on Columbia University campus in The Mirror Has Two Faces

Columbia in the Movies

22 films in which Columbia makes a cameo

A scene from The Pitt

16 ‘Outstanding’ Emmy Winners with Columbia Connections

These acclaimed TV shows with alumni and University ties have won Primetime Emmy awards for outstanding series

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Taylor Brodsky with child, photographed by Chris Ho
Arts & Humanities

Sound Stages

Irene Taylor Brodsky '97JRN made an award-winning documentary about her deaf parents. Now, as a mother, she is gaining a new understanding of the subject

Illustration of a sound engineer working behind the scenes at a concert hall, by Philippe Lechien
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Firebird Rising

In the bowels of Philosophy Hall, a shocking sound

Jacques Barzun in 1947 (Richard Rutledge / Condé Nast Archive)
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Simple and Direct

A former student recalls Jacques Barzun's clarity of mind and pen

Les Halles, Paris, circa 1970, by Al Mercado
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One-Shot Guy

Photographer Al Mercado lost a lot of pictures, but those he saved are gems

Illustration by Michael Witte of Jack Kerouac presenting a book typed on a scroll of paper to his editor
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The Road Not Taken

Jack Kerouac's On the Road turns 50

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The Fixer

Can editor Franklin Foer rescue the New Republic?

People building a boat in a workshop, photographed by Vernon Doucette
Arts & Humanities

Working Skiffs

Against the tide, the kids in Joe Youcha's workshop are carving out their futures

W.H. Auden in 1939
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Executor Privilege

Edward Mendelson on W. H. Auden

"Hartley and Andrew" by Alice Neel
Arts & Humanities

Moving Picture

Alice Neel made art on her own terms; but as a new film by her grandson Andrew Neel '01CC suggests, her family paid a price

A partial building design pictured in Low Library was created by architecture students and now is displayed on the lower level of Avery Hall through the end of April (Mark Bearak '08GSAPP).
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Learning to Truss

As part of the architecture school’s 125th anniversary, graduate students created two structures in Low Library to demonstrate a novel building approach

Illustration of André Malraux
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Colonel of Truth

André Malraux at Columbia

Illustration by Mark Steele of a game show
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Blonde Knockout

Dr. Joyce Brothers '53GSAS wins big

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