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...
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...
Quaker: Veterans Day 2019 Special Issue, Fiction
My sign turns heads. Some cars slow, most pass but all read. TO WAR VIA LA USMC
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...
Review: Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
Last month, the Booker Prize committee raised literary eyebrows when they awarded the coveted international prize to two authors for the first time since 1992,...
Writing ‘Mythological’ & ‘Imaginatively’: Podcast Episode 1
The Journal launches its new podcast exploring Fall Online judges Monica Sok & Akil Kumarasamy's writing processes.
Review: Find Me by André Aciman
When we grow up, where do we go? This is the question running through the heart of Find Me, Andre Aciman’s long-awaited sequel to his 2007 novel Call...
Fall 2019 Contest Fiction Finalist: RipCord
Alice looked over at Andrew. And then she looked away. She kept her eyes down as they walked to the lockers to don their gear....
Fall 2019 Contest Fiction Finalist: Sachi & the Yurt
No one in our leafy suburb had ever seen anything like the yurt. When I was seven and Sachi was ten, Dad built Sachi her “reading...
Fall 2019 Contest: Winners Announced
Columbia Journal is excited to announce the winners and finalists of our inaugural 2019 Fall Contest, which was judged by Akil Kumarasamy (fiction), Monica Sok...
Fall 2019 Contest Fiction Winner: Between the Meat World and the Real World
All day long she sits hunched over the receiver with the volume turned up so it drowns out the white noise from the freeway. When...