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Professor Anne Bogart will direct Boston Lyric Opera’s production of Bluebeard’s Castle/Four Songs. The brand new production, which will be presented March 22–26, 2023 at The Terminal at Flynn Cruiseport Boston, blends Bela Bartók’s 1918 opera, Bluebeard’s Castle, with Alma Maria Schindler-Mahler’s Four Songs (Vier Lieder) from 1915.
True Biz (2022), the New York Times bestselling novel from alumna Sara Nović ’14, is out now in paperback from Random House.
Magma, written by Þóra Hjörleifsdóttir and translated from the Icelandic by alumna Meg Matich ’15, has been named among the seventy titles on the Dublin Literary Award longlist.
Several projects from Columbia filmmakers are headed to the upcoming South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival, which will take place March 10-19, 2023.
The winners of the 66th Annual Obie Awards, selected from over 400 productions spanning 2020-2022, were announced on February 23, 2023. The awards, which were presented on February 27, honored the work of several Columbia faculty, alumni, and students.
Professor Phillip Lopate (CC ’64) has been voted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a remarkable honor and well-deserved recognition of his lifetime of contributions to American literature.
My Flawless Life, the fifth young adult novel from alumna Yvonne Woon ’10 (CC ’06), is out now from Katherine Tegen Books.
Here, we talk to Fiction student Emily Johnson about the joys of phone banking, grassroots literary readings, and the alchemy of good fiction.
For this interview, we sat down with Visual Arts professor and alumna Yasi Alipour ’18 to talk about the hand’s gestures in art-making, how Naghsh-e Jahan square in Isfahan, Iran has influenced her art practice, and the many ways she imprints embodied reproductions of the infinite onto paper.
The 2023 Film Independent Spirit Awards took place over the weekend, with the Columbia filmmakers behind Joyland and The Cathedral taking home top prizes.
Scholarship Benefit honoring Dean Carol Becker for her 16 years of tremendous leadership.
Three projects from Columbia filmmakers took home awards at this year’s Writers Guild Awards. They are: Women Talking, Hacks, and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.
The 21st edition of the Berlinale Talents just wrapped up and Columbia alumna Apoorva Charan ’18 was one of the participants in the week-long program.
The sixth and latest edition of Alternative Scriptwriting: Contemporary Storytelling for the Screen (Routledge, 2023) features contributions from several Columbia filmmakers, including Cyril Aris ’17, Ellie Foumbi ’17, Missy Hernandez ’17, Jimmy Keyrouz ’16, Chloe Lenihan ’16, Adjunct Assistant Professor Valerie Castillo Martinez ’16, George Sikharulidze ’17, and Isold Uggadottir ’11.