Gary Shteyngart's 'The Sensualist' Forthcoming with Random House in November
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.
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 Directing Concentration Head and Professor of Professional Practice Bette Gordon about artistic freedom, learning through experimentation, and why curiosity and play remain the guiding pillars of her filmmaking practice and her pedagogy as a teacher.
Cautionary Tales: A Symphony of Anger/Kòlè, the debut New York solo exhibition by Laurena Finéus '24, which opened last month at Fridman Gallery, considers anger as a form of knowing. On view now through June 19, 2026.
Two books from Columbia alums are featured on this summer reading list from Columbia Magazine. Read more.
The 79th Annual Tony Awards concluded the evening of June 7, and Columbia theatre-makers took home some of the night's biggest honors.
Fresh off the success of their debut novel, a writer wrestles with disillusionment, despair, and mysterious visions in surreal sophomore novel, Lucid Dreams, by Daphne Palasi Andreades '19.
This summer, Visual Arts' Director of Graduate Studies, Concentration Head of Painting, and Assistant Professor David Antonio Cruz reenvisions interiors across two boroughs: at PES Futures—a satellite initiative of the Project for Empty Space in Manhattan's historic Chinatown—and the Glyndor Gallery at Wave Hill Public Garden and Cultural Center in the Bronx.
Dean of the School of the Arts and Parr Professor of English and Comparative Literature Sarah Cole has co-edited The Oxford Handbook of H. G. Wells (Oxford University Press, 2026), a comprehensive overview of the life and work of one of the most influential writers of the 20th century.
A man has been found slumped over the steering wheel of his BMW, dead, in a South Asian enclave of suburban New Jersey—and the Sharmas are at the center of the case. In Men Like Ours, the darkly comic debut novel by Writing alum Bindu Bansinath '23, coming-of-age meets murder mystery as Anita Sharma, her restless teenage daughter Leila, and the women of the neighborhood are roped into the investigation of their friend's death.
The Off-Broadway hit, School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls by Playwriting alum Jocelyn Bioh '08, is getting its Broadway bow with leading nonprofit theatre company, Manhattan Theatre Club, this fall.
The Classical Theater of Harlem has announced that its 2026 Uptown Shakespeare in the Park production will be Othello—one of Shakespeare's most emotionally-charged tragedies, exploring power, rage, and racism—directed by Carl Cofield '14 with assistant direction from Kanika Asavari Vaish '22.
La Mar, a stunningly intimate account of community resilience by Mexican filmmaker, journalist, and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies, Jean Chapiro '25, has been longlisted for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Student Awards.
Paradise Pawn, the debut novel from Writing alum Meg Richardson '20—out July 14, 2026 with Tin House—follows the inseparable teenage duo, Jackie and Kayla, who hawk everything from luxury jewels to chainsaws at the pawn shop where they help out their fathers in Cherry Beach, Florida.
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.