In the rolling green of Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, there’s an elm fenced off from would-be climbers and initial carvers.
Learn From Me: Rereading Frankenstein on its 200th Anniversary
What Mary Shelley's Frankenstein can teach us about motherhood, creation, and a woman's worth.
Dead Moms Club
It was meant as an act of solidarity, a custom I’d stumbled upon in the years since my own mother’s death.
Review: Amateur by Thomas Page McBee
In Amateur, Thomas Page McBee ponders how he can become a good man and embody a non-toxic masculinity.
Snowed Men
The universe has a sense of humor. When it sees you are not paying attention— look out.
Review: Homeplace by John Lingan
John Lingan's Homeplace offers up a version of small-town America: the effects of deep roots and how the past dictates the future.
Catch and Release
They were Levi’s. 501s. The classic American pant. Straight leg, button fly, epitome of cool and functionality.
From Anywhere Else
This place was my birthright, and I wasn’t going to keep out because I was nineteen, or because I was queer.
EVOLVE 2018
Marshmallows and
Wood-Ear Mushrooms
Today is the first day of my last period.
Winter Contest:
Winners and Finalists
Columbia Journal is delighted to announce the winners and finalists of our 2017 Winter Contest. We received an overwhelming number of submissions, and were blown...
The Blind Cartoon
by Joshua James Amberson
A man goes into a gym, thinking it’s a dance school, and waltzes with a punching bag. He enters an airport, thinking it’s a movie...
At the American Chamber of Commerce Dinner in Beijing (1995): Fiction by Darien Gee
We wait for our dinner at white-draped tables. Side by side, we smile at one another. The woman could be from Texas or Colorado or...