I entered the world a textbook case. My earliest thoughts were, I am a boy.
Womxn’s History Month Special Issue Nonfiction Runner Up: The Flight of the Heavenly Bodies
In traditional relationship terminology, Moons are called wives. His had model-like looks, or they were even actual fashion models.
Womxn’s History Month Special Issue Nonfiction Runner Up: Not Napping
The woods were a kaleidoscope of women. Tall, rangy women with muscled arms in cut offs. Women with mohawks in their best butch leather get-ups.
They Said This Would Be Fun: An Interview with Eternity Martis
Martis writes about the body in stressful and harmful times, boyfriends gone so wrong they dip into Greek tragedy, and separates the chapters with pithy...
Review: Save Yourself by Cameron Esposito
Comedian Cameron Esposito’s new book Save Yourself has landed on my shortlist of memoirs that blend interiority and laugh-out-loud wit.
Womxn’s History Month Special Issue: Winners & Honorable Mentions Announced
Columbia Journal is excited to announce the winners and finalists of our inaugural Womxn's History Month Special Issue, in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and art. We...
Winter Contest Runner Up in Nonfiction: M.O.G.
My mother doesn’t read while I play in the sand with my friends or take my weekly swimming lesson. She reclines in the cheap plastic...
Winter Contest Runner Up in Nonfiction: Reaching First
As he ran, his tattered white sneakers stirred dust. But when he stepped on first base, Norm’s demeanor reverted to that of an old and...
Review: My Meteorite, or, Without the Random There Can Be No New Thing by Harry Dodge
Like all works of art, this book is an attempt to create patterns, to impose some order on our experience of the world.
On New Roads: An Interview with Peter Frankopan
In this interview, Sarah Gheyas spoke to Peter Frankopan about his latest book, The New Silk Roads, which looks at the shifting geopolitics and the...
The Benefits of Being a Hysterical Shrew: An Interview with Sarah Ramey
In this interview, Editor-in-Chief spoke with writer Sarah Ramey about her debut memoir, The Lady’s Handbook For Her Mysterious Illness.
Writing into Crisis: An Interview with Paul Lisicky
In this interview, Nina St. Pierre talks to author Paul Lisicky about his sixth book, the memoir, Later: My Life at the Edge of the...