Columbia Journal

Review: Girlhood by Melissa Febos

With psychological clarity and emotional precision, Febos revisits the past to rewrite the future.

Abhigna Mooraka, Columns Editor for Columbia Journal Issue 59, spoke to author Avni Doshi about her Booker-shortlisted Burnt...

I write during screen time, the bounds of which creep earlier and earlier. But I don’t know how...

Poems translated from the Hindi into the English by Apurva Narain

My brother has never been my enemy. But I worry about what he could be driven to do...

As we face this fateful day we are reminded of a poignant article from around this time four...

Illumination of Darkness with Direction. Mesmerizing readings and conversation about Life in Space by Galina Rymbu and her...

The book tackles a myriad of themes. It moves seamlessly between spirituality and sexuality, from religion to relationships,...

The following poems are taken from Abraham Sutzkever’s collection, Poems from My Diary.

To put names and faces to the numbers of our long time together.

Aman is, by all medical and anecdotal accounts, dying.

So for better or for worse, COVID has turned out to be an opportune moment. It’s terrible for...