With psychological clarity and emotional precision, Febos revisits the past to rewrite the future.
Between Screens: Structural Revision
I write during screen time, the bounds of which creep earlier and earlier. But I don’t know how to structurally revise a 77,000 word novel in 20-minute increments.
Review: The Lightness by Emily Temple
The book tackles a myriad of themes. It moves seamlessly between spirituality and sexuality, from religion to relationships, and from Siddhartha’s Buddhism to Sleeping Beauty. It combines fact with fiction, folklore with fairytale, and desire with danger.
Review: Life of the Party by Tea Hacic-Vlahovic
An elaborate disappearing act, Tea Hacic-Vlahovic’s novel plots a young woman’s debaucherous romp through Milan’s high society as she acclimates her existing problems to a new milieu saturated by the fashion world and its attendant vices.
Eco-Horror, Motherhood, and the Creative Process: An Interview With Diane Cook
Leyton Cassidy, Podcast Editor for the Columbia Journal, sat down with Diane Cook to discuss her debut novel, The New Wilderness, as well as her writing process, relationship with nature, and the religion of writing.
Review: Friends and Strangers by J. Courtney Sullivan
A novel that reminds you just how hyper-aware the world has become since the early 2010s—the war between genders, races, classes—and yet never loses sight of its timeless keystone: the strength of the bonds built by women, between women.
Review: The Sprawl by Jason Diamond
Diamond’s gaze, astute and compelling, is critical not only of the object of its inquiry but also of itself—of the hesitant, intricate love we have for the places that shaped us.
Review: Where Things Touch by Bahar Orang
Orang’s narrative is one that resists categorization; combining poetry, nonfiction, and philosophy, she brings forth a book that challenges the reader to meditate on the same questions and insights that drove her through the process of writing, searching, and living.
Review: World of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Into this summer of our discontent comes poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s first book of essays World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments. Here is everything that’s been missing: family, food, travel, immersion in nature, the abundance…
Review: Being Lolita by Alisson Wood
Wood cunningly uses the reader’s knowledge so that, at decisive points, they either read with or against the grain of this text.
Review: Antiemetic for Homesickness by Romalyn Ante
Romalyn Ante’s debut collection presents an important and magical display of culture and perspective.
Home Army: A Letter To My Grandfather
The Polish word for “loss” is “utrata”—the “u” an empty vessel on the page, but a full, circular sound gathered at the front of the mouth: utrata as a kind of interior possession, a weight one carries.