The revolving door rolled her out onto a bustling, uncaring sidewalk where an early winter wind whetted its taste for exposed flesh.
Review: Gun Island by Amitav Ghosh
Gun Island is Ghosh at his tenacious, exhausted best—marrying a mythical tale from his homeland with the plight of the human condition, all the while...
Italian poems about love, loss and the sea translated by Amy Newman
Snow, graves and time passing. Perfect poems for the approaching winter.
Review: Essays One by Lydia Davis
Essays One takes readers through the “unsuspected” rooms of Lydia Davis’ mind.
Call for Submission: 2019 Winter Contest
The editors of Columbia Journal are delighted to officially announce that the 2019 Winter Contest is now open for submissions in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction....
Poems by Gabriella R. Tallmadge: Veterans Day 2019 Special Issue, Poetry
Labyrinth, rapture, salvo. The release, all at once, a rack of rockets, a salve. Dismantling the elk nest, ants in the scaffolding of our bed....
Veterans Day 2019 Special Issue
At the Columbia Journal, we believe that the stories and voices of service members and civilians affected by war should be circulated and contemplated. Today...
A Peaceful Hillside: Veterans Day 2019 Special Issue, Nonfiction
I came back from Vietnam with a chest full of medals and a head full of nightmares, a full-blown case of post-traumatic stress disorder, the...
Quaker: Veterans Day 2019 Special Issue, Fiction
My sign turns heads. Some cars slow, most pass but all read. TO WAR VIA LA USMC
Review: Irreversible Things by Lisa Van Orman Hadley
A fair warning: don’t be fooled by the ease of this read, by the sheer joy of following this narrator into adulthood. The heartbreak catches...
French poem from 1836 translated anew
An interrogation of what consumes us and what we can overcome.
Down to the Marrow: An Interview with Carmen Maria Machado
Carmen Maria Machado talks about her new memoir, In the Dream House. The book explores domestic abuse in a lesbian relationship.
Like Building A Church
In your third month we buy a manger at Babies R’ Us. “Some Assembly Required,” you read on the box. “That could be stamped on...