Chancey learned about the missing neighbor girl from the flyers stuffed in her mailbox. They were written in the kind of English she understood best: basic, with pictures.
Review: Milk Fed by Melissa Broder
Milk Fed is a funny, erotic, and pleasure-affirming novel about what happens when one woman unleashes her “monstrous” desires—to eat, to have sex with who she wants, to set boundaries with toxic relatives, and to present herself in less conventionally…
Review: Love and Other Poems by Alex Dimitrov
Love and Other Poems is a symphony of individuality, an extravaganza of self-devotion, self-sacrifice and, above all, a desperation for reciprocity.
Egghead Watch: Living with A Serious Man’s Uncertainty Principle
To regard the Coen brothers as ahead of their time—ahead of the present, as they’re still working directors (most recently with The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, for Netflix)—is to presume that a day will come in which more films look…
Memory, Baking, and Punk: An Interview with Hanif Abdurraqib
Sylvia Gindick, online poetry editor at the Columbia Journal, spoke with Spring Contest poetry judge, Hanif Addurraqib, to discuss exploratory practices of baking and poetry, the complications of memory and place, the responsibility of the witness, and a writer’s relationship…
ICYMI: Say Translation is Art with Sawako Nakayasu, Susan Bernofsky, and Lynn Xu
Columbia University hosted a virtual lecture by artist Sawako Nakayasu, followed by a conversation between Nakayasu, Susan Bernofsky (Director of LTAC at Columbia), and Lynn Xu (Writing Assistant Professor).
Checkmate
In Soviet Ukraine, where chess mattered, Igor Borisovich’s difficult personality was forgiven as a side effect of his chess master genius.
Adriana Riva’s ‘Pink Peppercorn’ Translated from the Spanish
Spanish to English Translation of short story ‘Pink Peppercorn’ by Denise Kripper. ‘Pink Peppercorn’ is a part of the collection of short stories ‘Angst’ by Adriana Riva.
Labyrinths
My mother speaks for me. I nod along as she recounts the twisted history of my illness, too weak to correct her when she trips over a detail.
Falling in the Abyss, Singing: An Interview with Poet and Novelist Joseph Fasano
Tiffany Troy, Translation Assistant Editor for Columbia Journal, spoke with poet and novelist, Joseph Fasano, to discuss world building, archetypes, and craft in A Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing (Platypus Press, 2020). His debut novel features a man’s obsessive…
In
She had been about five years old when Mom showed her the bag.
Two Poems by Margaret Saigh
A book. An answer. A person. A moon. Some of mine / Something of mine, mine a rhythm