Columbia Journal is excited to announce the winners and finalists of our annual Spring Contest, which was judged by Melissa Febos in nonfiction, Analicia Sotelo...
Available for purchase: Columbia Journal, issue 58
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American Constructs of Violence: Art by Conor Fagan
Constructs of American Violence consists of nine small paintings, which are details of a Civil War monument and a Civil War era cannon that reside...
Art and Seoul: An Interview with Frances Cha
Frances Cha speaks about If I Had Your Face, her debut novel set in South Korea, and about writing, art, pop culture, and women.
Writing Iranian America: An Interview with Porochista Khakpour
In this interview, Jasmine Vojdani speaks with writer Porochista Khakpour about fragmented identity, being Iranian in America, regret, and her new book, The Brown Album:...
The Sacred and the Profane: Art by Scott Brennan
Though I am no longer a practicing Catholic, the religious iconography made a lasting impression, and I continue to notice it in the secular world...
On Being A Good Indian: An Interview With Stephen Graham Jones
Max Asher Miller spoke with Stephen Graham Jones about The Only Good Indians, a bloody book with eyes on what it means to navigate Native...
Review: The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
A terrifying whirlwind of blood with the brains to match, The Only Good Indians is sure to be among the most exciting novels this summer...
Review: You Will Never Be Forgotten by Mary South
South’s prose is funny, propulsive, and completely original... explored with nuance and depth.
Translations of Translations: Steve Kronen’s take on Sappho, Flaubert and Verlaine
These three fluid, new and surprising poems are rendered from other translations and notes: an experiment in translation.
Four Poems by Ruby Solly
"I see all twelve heavens and you are in every one."
Review: Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh
Moshfegh's Death in Her Hands makes readers feel willfully uncomfortable, unwillfully human, and potentially insane.
Review: Ogadinma Or, Everything Will Be Alright by Ukamaka Olisakwe
Ogadinma Or, Everything Will Be All Right, digs out a range of emotions—rage, expectation, admiration, admonition—which keep the reader turning page after page.
Photo Essay: Haiti Beyond the Headlines
In order to mark both the earthquake anniversary and the easing of peyilok, Haitian journalist Junior St Vil and Ildi Tillmann, author and documentary photographer,...