'Switzy' by Emma Cline '13 Longlisted for the 2026 Booker Prize
Switzy, the third novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls and The Guest, Emma Cline '13, has been longlisted for the 2026 Booker Prize. A portrait of human mortality, Switzy follows a retired business executive with a degenerative neurological disease as he is shepherded by his assistant to visit friends and family before his medically assisted death in Zurich.
Smriti Mundhra '09—the DGA-winning, two-time Oscar-nominated, and Emmy-nominated filmmaker who created Netflix's hit Indian Matchmaking—is among the group of 12 renowned screenwriters selected for the Sundance Screenwriters Lab, set to take place June 29–July 2, 2026.
Film alum Jeremy Robbins '13 wrote Apex—a lean action film starring Charlize Theron as a wilderness climber and kayaker hunted by a single-minded killer (Taron Egerton) in the Australian outback—because he wanted to watch it.
The retrospective exhibit The House That Jack Built at Pirelli HangarBicocca—a former Pirelli tire plant turned contemporary art institution in Milan—aims to introduce the public to thirty years of Professor Rirkrit Tiravanija's research into spatial and architectural practices.
Jennifer L. Mnookin officially joins Columbia University as its 21st president. Read more.
This Is Who We Are is a series featuring Columbia University School of the Arts' professors, covering careers, pedagogy, and art-making. Here, we talk with Associate Professor of Visual Arts Sable Elyse Smith about the inherent information in materials, time, and the myth of the 'art world.'
Playwriting student Anterior Leverett was awarded the Hansberry-Lilly Fellowship from the Dramatists Guild Foundation, created to support generations of female-identifying playwrights of color.
"My time at Columbia unsettled my sense of certainty," said Mansi Dahal '24, whose luminous debut poetry collection, Women in Marigold, is forthcoming from Stillhouse Press this September.
Executive produced by Film alum Simon Kinberg '03, Apple TV's latest dark comedy Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed has received positive reviews from The Hollywood Reporter, Collider, and Vulture.
The Sensualist: Adventures in Pure Pleasure is the New York Times bestselling author and Professor Gary Shteyngart's first collection of essays—despite having appeared in Best American Essays nine times.
How is the internet like water? Yehwan Song '26 addresses this question in her solo exhibition—an installation of her kinetic sculpture The Other Internet—on view this summer at Subtitled NYC, an artist-run project space in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
Awake and Sing!, Clifford Odets's landmark 1935 play about the struggles and aspirations of a Depression-era Jewish family in the Bronx, will return to Broadway next winter for the first time in two decades—and will mark the Broadway debut of director Tyne Rafaeli '14.
This summer, Yuri Yuan '21 brings Wanderlust to Haverkampf Leistenschneider, Berlin, in her debut solo exhibition in Europe. Gesturing toward geographic and emotional distance, Yuan portrays landscapes and domestic scenes in her signature flattened style. A woman, clad in a gray trenchcoat and cap, walks through a cemetery; a bluejay sips from a puddle; a hand pulls back a curtain, picks up a paintbrush. Wanderlust emphasizes passage over arrival, witness over judgement.
On July 8, 2026, the Television Academy revealed its nominations for the 78th annual Primetime and Creative Arts Emmy Awards—and Columbia alums were all over the list. Let's break it down.
Professor of Professional Practice James Schamus will pen the libretto for the opera adaption of The Wedding Banquet, which will premiere in Seattle in January 2027 before coming to the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.
Alex Strada '16 is the inaugural Public Artist in Residence with the NYC Department of Homeless Services and the Department of Cultural Affairs with her work, Public Address.
Our Cavafy, a selection of new translations of Constantine P. Cavafy—widely considered the most distinguished Greek poet of the 20th century—by Constantine Contogenis '98 was released on July 10, 2026 by Finishing Line Press.
Switzy, the third novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls and The Guest, Emma Cline '13, has been longlisted for the 2026 Booker Prize. A portrait of human mortality, Switzy follows a retired business executive with a degenerative neurological disease as he is shepherded by his assistant to visit friends and family before his medically assisted death in Zurich.
The new sci-fi thriller, The End of Oak Street, written and directed by David Robert Mitchell, produced by Bad Robot and Jackson Pictures, and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, featured work from Directing alum Sushant Chaudhary '21, who joined the team as Assistant Editor to John Axelrad, ACE.