Frances Cha speaks about If I Had Your Face, her debut novel set in South Korea, and about writing, art, pop culture, and women.
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.
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.
Au Revoir, Gopher
I turn and face Bill Murray. You, I say. You leave in the morning. Bill Murray looks at me as if I’m beyond saving.
Spring 2020 Contest: Winners & Runner Ups Announced
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...
Spring Contest Runner Up in Fiction: Aquanauts of Hudson Canyon
Leo's whole body is now cold and fractured, a calving iceberg. The old man's incontinent and incoherent and not long for this world—this seems more...
Spring Contest Runner Up in Fiction: Swallowed Flies
I try to remember that my husband is an angel of a man, a profferer of backrubs, bringer of flowers, an emergency therapist, whose only...
Spring Contest Winner in Fiction: We Tell Time in Stories, Not Hours
I don’t always know the difference between remembering and seeing, but Tinkerbell says that’s okay because only a fool believes in time and memory both.
Maximum Compound: Girl World / Lucy
Who gets a life sentence on the dirt planet and who gets life on a pleasure planet? Who knows. The sun goes down and it’s...