We loved each other more slowly, losing rhythm and kisses along the way.
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We loved each other more slowly, losing rhythm and kisses along the way.
The other girl has a warm, melt-in-your-mouth name like Anne or Madeline. She is the virgin weeping in every church, so clean she glows.
…I was thinking about dating in the city and how it can be just like applying to jobs. There are some interesting parallels…
Columbia Journal has shortlisted up to 23 writers and artists for the Special Issue on Loneliness contest.
There are no memories here. There is, instead, a rose garden on a hill.
I find myself pulled into a whisper, a grandmother’s bedtime story, a folktale from an era long gone, and into the pulse of the earth itself.
I saw my father’s penis because today was the first day that he didn’t make it to the bathroom by himself.
As a general rule, a single person should not live with a couple – it is a recipe for heartbreak – but back in those days, the three architecture students did not know that. They found a cavernous apartment near…
Ander Monson is not like most writers. While others strive to have one book out in the world at a time, Monson has made it a habit of publishing twin volumes simultaneously. His short story collection, The Gnome Stories (Gray…
Some Trick: Thirteen Stories is Helen DeWitt’s third book in nearly two decades. It begins with a two-page mock-epigraph called “Here Is Somewhere.” The section riffs off “We’re Off to See the Wizard” from The Wizard of Oz, except the…
Anne Enright’s latest novel Actress begins with a question: “What was she like?”. The she in question is Katherine O’Dell, famous actress of the stage and screen, an Irish icon and, most importantly, the mother of our narrator, Norah. It’s…
Taylor forces his characters to be active participants in the mess of reality. By rejecting their impulse to isolate themselves, he grants them culpability, dignity, and ultimately, humanity.
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