The editors are delighted to officially announce that the Columbia Journal Fall Contest is now open for submissions in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and, for the...
Announcing Columbia Journal Issue 57
Order your copy of Columbia Journal's Spring 2019 edition, Issue 57, featuring work by Jenny Holzer, Patti Smith, Eileen Myles, Duy Doan, and Donika Kelly.
On Writing as Longing: An Interview with Michele Filgate
Michele Filgate is the kind of person who you can meet for the first time at a co-working space in SoHo, bond over both being...
Blurbed: July 2019
In each edition of Blurbed, Columbia Journal's columns editor, Adin Dobkin, pulls pieces from his reading list and the thoughts of other Journal editors.
The Interior
[Clarendon, Jamaica] [“We are driving to the interior.”—Elizabeth Bishop, “Arrival at Santos”] The mountains loom Large like questions About poverty. Wages Low. Crime, high, ...
Review: The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
“All the boys knew about that rotten spot,” describes the narrator of The Nickel Boys, Colson Whitehead’s searing novel set in Jim Crow-era Florida. The boys,...
Review: Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob
Good Talk whiplashes the reader from ease and pleasure to apprehension and concern, so that the reader is never truly comfortable.
Review: Searching for Sylvie Lee by Jean Kwok
More than a fast-paced thriller, Searching for Sylvie Lee is a meditation on dislocation, the gulf that separates generations of migrants, and the price of...
An ‘Austere, Whispering Power’: An Interview with Colm Tóibín
This scholarly and writerly interview probes relationships presented by Colm Tóibín between art and living, psychology and fiction, form and national identities, fiction and politics,...
Poemas de las protestas
Until Mother's Day of 2018, Luis Montenegro took part in the Nicaraguan Protests. In his poetry, the doctor examines the ongoing unrest.
On Mortality and Myth: An Interview with Chaya Bhuvaneswar
Chaya Bhuvaneswar talks about her book White Dancing Elephants, and her writing as it evolves within and beyond myth, time, and self-love.
Blurbed: June 2019
Hello and welcome to the new (and possibly improved?) Blurbed. Each month, columns editor Adin Dobkin gives recommendations from his reading list, as well as...
Mapping Emotions in the City: An Interview with Melanie Kruvelis
Melanie Kruvelis talks emotional mapping, grieving alone in New York City, and the catharsis of karaoke.