The first-ever Columbia Journal Fall Contest is now open for submissions in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and, for the first time, art. Our judges will be...
A Little Bit Dopamine, A Little Bit Conversation
Even the teensiest of curtsies / will make your shadow go away.
I can’t foresee the changes and I can’t know what I will, undoubtedly, regret, but I can come to see me as a future, you as a violent past.
I regret my dreaming, its final actor.
Poems by Ana Elena Pena translated from Spanish
Five poems about love, frenetic energy and wanting translated from Ana Elena Pena's original text in Spanish by Hannah Bishop.
TEACHER-CREATURE
This is your teacher-creature speaking.
Jade Fluid
Moved by beautiful images, like they’re powerful dreams / in search of the healing energy
Labyrinthine Cinema: Review of Manifesto, Julian Rosefeldt
Julian Rosefeldt’s thirteen-part film installation, Manifesto, is situated at the approximate midpoint of the Hirshhorn’s Manifesto: Art x Agency exhibition which comprises the entire outer...
On Writing as Longing: An Interview with Michele Filgate
Michele Filgate is the kind of person who you can meet for the first time at a co-working space in SoHo, bond over both being...
Blurbed: July 2019
In each edition of Blurbed, Columbia Journal's columns editor, Adin Dobkin, pulls pieces from his reading list and the thoughts of other Journal editors.
The Interior
The mountains loom / Large like questions / About poverty.
Review: The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
“All the boys knew about that rotten spot,” describes the narrator of The Nickel Boys, Colson Whitehead’s searing novel set in Jim Crow-era Florida. The boys,...
Review: Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob
Good Talk whiplashes the reader from ease and pleasure to apprehension and concern, so that the reader is never truly comfortable.