In high school, he was one of three linebackers. All three wore good names on their backs. Sword. Seabolt. King. Strong side. Middle. Weak.
Poems by Luciana Jazmín Coronado and Verónica González Arredondo Translated From The Spanish
Poems by Luciana Jazmín Coronado and Verónica González Arredondo translations from the Spanish by Allison A. deFreese.
Good Night, and Good Cluck
There are myriad ways to kill a chicken, but by this point, I would have put the chicken in the car by a lake and released the parking brake.
Rolling Junkyard Series
The images in the Rolling Junkyard Series are composed by manually layering 35mm color slide film of materials found at recycling collection facilities in the South Korean countryside.
A Glimpse of Abundance
For two months that summer, like Alice in Wonderland, I stepped out of one life and into another.
I am hoping you find her
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.