We're delighted to announce the new print issue of Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art.
A Purple State
Pittsburgh is a blue city nestled in the red part of a purple state. A political bruise.
Review: Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Adjei-Brenyah lays out the many ways the enlightened interact with a broken world: they laugh, cry, shake their fists at it, or remain indifferent.
Hazeover by Mohammad Tolouei, Translated from Farsi
Addiction doesn’t disappear, it only changes forms. I was hooked on idleness, but now I'm hooked on work.
Within the Body: An Interview with Susannah Nevison
Susannah Nevison talks about disability, mass incarceration, and her upcoming collection, Lethal Theatre.
Daydream by Edogawa Ranpo, Translated from Japanese
I continued on my way down that boundless, endless white road that seemed to stretch on and on and on.
(Dis)Connections: Katherine Bradford at Canada
A sense of mutual isolation suffuses Katherine Bradford's visions of containment and longing in her latest solo show at Canada.
Review: The Witch Elm by Tana French
Tana French's The Witch Elm gives rise to real questions about identity, the nature of self-perception, and the limitations of being in your own head.
Review: The Shell Game Edited by Kim Adrian
If good creative writing sparks the instinct to write, The Shell Game provides ample embers to inspire a wide range of writers.
The Work of the Living
The last bees form a cloud that fills/ the sky. One dies and then/ another, little motor of the brain/ kaput.
Review: Deviation by Luce D’Eramo, Translated by Anne Milano Appel
Luce D'Eramo's Deviation constitutes an invaluable insight on memory, trauma, and repression in the context of life-writing.
Review: Transcription by Kate Atkinson
Kate Atkinson's latest novel follows protagonist Juliet as she transcribes documents during World War II and is swept into a high-tension waiting game.
Review: Lake Success by Gary Shteyngart
Gary Shteyngart's newest novel Lake Success serves as a vivid, colorful pastoral of America in all its glamour and blemishes.