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Two Poems by Timothy Berrigan
To put names and faces to the numbers of our long time together.
Casualty
Aman is, by all medical and anecdotal accounts, dying.
A Conversation with Viet Thanh Nguyen
So for better or for worse, COVID has turned out to be an opportune moment. It’s terrible for the entire country, but for a writer,...
Review: Life of the Party by Tea Hacic-Vlahovic
An elaborate disappearing act, Tea Hacic-Vlahovic’s novel plots a young woman’s debaucherous romp through Milan’s high society as she acclimates her existing problems to a...
North
Soon after re-entering their natal streams, the salmon’s kidneys fail. Having come to maturity in the ocean, they can no longer ingest freshwater.
Three Poems by Manouchehr Atashi and Mohammad Biabani Translated from the Persian
Poems translated by Marjan Modarres Sabzevari
Words Apart
There was an undeniable charm to the unlikely nature of our bond, a lighthearted Frenchman and an aging American virgin
Three Poems by Pamela Proietti Translated from the Italian
Three Poems (Thirty-two Hours, Four Days, That Which Remains) translated by Stephen Eric Berry and Donna Mancusi-Ungaro Hart from the Italian.
Wentworth
Wentworth sat alone in his apartment on New Year’s Eve, daydreaming about a reading party held in honor of his debut novel, which in reality...
Eco-Horror, Motherhood, and the Creative Process: An Interview With Diane Cook
Leyton Cassidy, Podcast Editor for the Columbia Journal, sat down with Diane Cook to discuss her debut novel, The New Wilderness, as well as her...
Review: Friends and Strangers by J. Courtney Sullivan
A novel that reminds you just how hyper-aware the world has become since the early 2010s—the war between genders, races, classes—and yet never loses sight...
A Deconstruction of ‘Some Girls Walk Into The Country They Are From’ with the Translation Editors
A conversation between the Columbia Journal Translation Editors about the main topics traversing through ‘Some Girls Walk Into The Country They Are From’ by Sawako...