“Ah, the Southern Country! Ah, the Island! Ah, Taiwan!”

Under a glass case on the sixth floor of Butler Library was an intimate array of manuscripts, journals, and personal artifacts by short-story writer Lydia Davis, BC ’70. Pages littered with scribbled notes, slashed-out sentences, and question marks suggest that even the renowned translator and award-winning writer may have struggled with homophones.

Will the space opera subgenre ever die? Not if it’s in the form of a brightly neon and raunchy lesbian space quest.

Tucked into the Upper West Side at 969 Amsterdam Ave., Happy Hot Hunan opened its doors in 2015 with two goals in mind: intense flavor and generous portions. Eleven years later, it continues to do just that through a carefully curated menu mixing traditional Hunanese cuisine and modern American-Chinese classics.

“Deeper than the Ocean” by Mirta Ojito, Journalism ’01, presents readers with characters who live between memory and reality, haunted by the undeadness of their past and by fears passed down through generations.

Drift Pins isn’t your typical indie band. When band members are not practicing in the basement of the 50 Haven Athletic Center, they’re upstairs learning how to become the world’s next doctors at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center.

Soft hyperpop reverberated throughout a moodily lit Low Library Rotunda as well-dressed spectators awaited this year’s edition of the Asian American Alliance’s fashion show, SILK.

As the sun set on Oct. 29, students and adults of all ages gathered into the warmly-lit reception room of Columbia’s Deutsches Haus to listen to fairy tales. However, these fairy tales were not of the typical, sanitized kind, but rather “truly dark, truly grim” tales for children—something that the event’s speaker, award-winning writer and podcaster Adam Gidwitz, CC ’04, specializes in.

As students poured into 555 Lerner, they were greeted with the cheerful music of Fabián Gómez blasting from the speakers and the sound of dancers’ heels clicking as they swung their skirts up, evoking the plumage of birds.