Books

A kid inside the critic

Just because something isn't high-culture doesn't mean we should disregard its value.

Snooki speaks for us

Since a contemporary Salinger has yet to emerge, Snooki may be the one to fill the void.

Brave new reader

It wasn’t until I came across the iBook feature that I started to think seriously about the social and philosophical implications of this product and others.

Star-studded New Yorker Festival caters to the magazine’s readers

The New Yorker festival returns this year with more literary criticism that you can handle

Tribute to Berry explores human relation to environment

As a tribute to Berry’s intellectual contributions, the Thomas Berry Foundation will be hosting a Thomas Berry Award ceremony at 2 p.m. and a memorial service at 4 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 26, at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine.

Sophomore Promotes Recently Published Book

Gaia Goffe, CC ’11, is a Columbia fencer, an active member of Columbia’s Students for Barack Obama, and an employee of the Center for Research on Environmental Decisions.

Addicted to Books

Libraries Upgrade With Tech Improvements

From the time of Herbert Dewey—the Columbia librarian who invented the organizational Dewey decimal system—Columbia University libraries have always been at the forefront of new technology.

Successfully Hacking Into High School Cliches

Remember The Perfect Score, that absolute blot on Scarlett Johansson’s then-burgeoning career? It’s okay if you don’t—thankfully for Johansson, nobody else does either.