We're delighted to announce the new print issue of Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art.
In Rare Company: An Interview with Nicole Chung
Nicole Chung talks about confronting family lore surrounding her adoption, discovering revision ideas in her dreams, and editing a memoir while grieving.
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This is a good time/for abandonment, dear silent,/ cold universe with stairs/that go nowhere,/ where are you taking me?
Find Your Sacred Spaces: An Interview with Bill King
Bill King talks about his new poetry collection, The Letting Go, what he's learned from fatherhood, and the importance of sacred spaces for writers.
Two Poems by Isabel Zapata and Martha Mega, Translated from Spanish
In your nightmare, you walk slowly underneath an umbrella made out of human/ bones.
An Act of Exploration: An Interview with Deborah Eisenberg
Deborah Eisenberg discusses her forthcoming story collection Your Duck is My Duck, her writing process, and what's next.
Review: Sea Prayer by Khaled Hosseini
Sea Prayer is a marvel for both its lyricism and its brevity, its ability to span generations and touch multiple narratives in such little space.
The Power of Women’s Anger: An Interview With Soraya Chemaly
Soraya Chemaly talks about Serena Williams, #MeToo, and the realities of being a feminist parent.
Pareidolia Me
My daughter’s sleep/ wave machine/ becomes a granular datum of cheer
Heading Back into Memory: An Interview with Richie Hofmann
The poet Richie Hofmann discusses growing up in Germany, reading translated poems, and of course, his poetry.
Four Poems by Richie Hofmann
Perhaps my need to appear/ happy at all times comes from a fear/ of my true thoughts and desires.
The Word Process: An Interview with Olivia Laing
Olivia Laing discusses the spaces she works, the one skill that writers need, and the writers she returns to again and again.
Poems from Yu Nu, Lee Chin-Wen, Xiao Shui, Translated from Chinese
Will some lightly clapping hands remain/ in places where death walked through?