Dominique Townsend recounts how, as a high school senior, a 12th-century wooden statue of a Buddha in a museum helped set her ...

In The Soldier’s House, Journalism Professor Helen Benedict tells the story of an Iraq War veteran who saves the lives of his ...

The Department of Energy mission aims to integrate artificial intelligence into transformative scientific discovery.

Poets, literary critics, and lovers of poetry often speak of the “music of poetry.” The Sounds of Poetry Viewed as Music by Fred Lerdahl, Fritz Reiner Professor Emeritus of Musical Composition, gives ...

Howard Marks, the chairman and cofounder of Oaktree Capital Management, is renowned for his insightful assessments of market opportunity and risk. After four decades spent ascending to the top of the ...

Paul Thomas Chamberlin’s book, Scorched Earth, recasts the conflict as a brutal struggle for survival among declining and ascendant imperial powers. In popular memory, the Second World War was an ...

Columbia University has announced that it will launch a new Columbia Global Center in Tel Aviv to build on its existing collaborations in Israel and facilitate further engagement and partnerships.

Over the last two decades, the United States has supported a range of militias, rebels, and other armed groups in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. Critics have argued that such partnerships have many ...

Forty years later, a Columbia professor shares what he learned from a high-profile experiment in which he tried to teach a chimp human language. In 1973, Herbert Terrace set out to do what no ...

Fiction, nonfiction, memoir, history, essays, language, art history, architecture, climate—we’ve got you covered with this diverse list of books. We’ve all heard the story about waking up as a ...

From zombies and falconry to Oscar Wilde and Max, Maurice Sendak’s beloved children’s book character, Jack Halberstam, a professor of English and Comparative Literature, offers an alternative history ...