Good Talk whiplashes the reader from ease and pleasure to apprehension and concern, so that the reader is never truly comfortable.
An ‘Austere, Whispering Power’: An Interview with Colm Tóibín
This scholarly and writerly interview probes relationships presented by Colm Tóibín between art and living, psychology and fiction, form and national identities, fiction and politics,...
Fall 2019 Contest Now Open for Submissions!
The editors are delighted to officially announce that the Columbia Journal Fall Contest is now open for submissions in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and, for the...
Review: On The End of Privacy by Richard E. Miller
What it means to live in a world where anyone can hide behind a screen but anything, once written on a screen, can’t be hidden.
Review: What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About edited by Michele Filgate
Each essay is a testament to the complicated relationships between mothers and their children and to all the silences that surround them.
Unless It’s Unkind or Violent
Testing out photos like ties or cufflinks for the occasion, dressing the dead in the distracting garments of life.
Azabache
"Azabache" by Rocio Reyes Mejia is the Nonfiction Winner in Columbia Journal's inaugural 2019 Spring Contest, judged by Kiese Laymon.
Review: Ways of Hearing by Damon Krukowski
Based on the podcast of the same name from Radiotopia, the book is a multimodal experience, one that opens the ears through the eyes.
The Flea
I power-walked to my laptop with a bizarre strut, like my flea infected leg was made of wood.
Tolerance
I had told myself that my tolerance was a virtue, but perhaps it was a weakness, a form of passivity.
Review: Mother Winter by Sophia Shalmiyev
Sophia Shalmiyev takes the reader through her experiences growing up with an alcoholic mother and her search for replacement mother figures.
Review: Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through By T Fleischmann
Fleischmann’s essay, Time is the Thing a Body Moves Through, is a balancing act of various genres.