but my husband looks more like our savior: / more like Jesus than the man / they have stained into glass
Review: The Malevolent Volume by Justin Phillip Reed
In this collection, Reed accepts and moves deftly through anger, cultural truths, contemporary references, and never turns away.
A Conversation with Director and Filmmaker Tayo Amos
I am always attracted to situations in which characters have to go above and beyond themselves to do something that they normally wouldn’t do to fill a role they’ve been thrust into.
Not Your Typical Gap Year: An Interview With Pam Mandel
Rachel Rueckert, nonfiction MFA candidate, spoke to travel writer Pam Mandel about her career path and recently released book, The Same River Twice: A Memoir of Dirtbag Backpackers, Bomb Shelters, and Bad Travel, a coming-of-age story about an unconventional, emotionally…
Semi-Permeable Membrane
You shouldn’t be here, that’s what you tell the other inmates.
Ruminations on David Foster Wallace’s letters to Richard Elman
Every love story is a ghost story in the sense that the beloved often lingers, haunts, and possesses the mind of the lover.
invitation to edit: spiritual exercises
set fire to the innermost squad car
Breast Cancer and Your Arm!
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Three Poems by Immanuel Mifsud in Translation
Maltese to English Translations by Ruth Ward
Friction
“Friction,” by Marieken Cochius, is a selection for the Columbia Journal’s Special Issue on Uprising in the art category.
Civics Unit: Naturalization Test
Every summer, the fires come. Sometimes, they arrive early, stay past the fall. The fires tear through houses and bird nests. Schools close…
Review: Luster by Raven Leilani
This is Leilani at her funniest, and Edie at her most, well, relatable.