Today we have our first prose piece in the retrospective series. It was written by Paul Spike, now known best for his memoir Photographs of my Father, which he published six years after this was printed in our magazine. Abraham’s Tent by Paul Spike Abraham was not the clock on the wall of his…
The Columbia Review printed this work by Tory Dent while she was studying at Barnard College. She later published three volumes of poetry and received numerous awards and honors, such as the James Laughlin Award in 1999 for HIV, Mon Amour, which described her struggle with the disease. Dent passed away in 2005. Poem by…
Today’s poem was written by Leslie Gottesman, who went on to become a professor of English at Golden Gate University. Racing to the Coast by Leslie Gottesman The face fragments stumble past the sleep station The children are stamping to get to the home station We place the morning station carefully in the locked Japanese…
As a countdown to the release of the first issue of our 100th volume on December 14th, we will be posting pieces every day from previous issues over the years. Our first piece was written by Mary Morris, who went on to earn the Rome Prize in Literature and publish many novels, memoirs, and story collections. She…
The Columbia Review is excited to announce that we are offering one-time prizes to celebrate the first issue in our 100th Volume during the Fall 2018 semester. There will be three categories — Poetry, Prose, and Translation — as outlined below. The Kenneth Koch Prizes in Prose and Poetry will be awarded to one prose…
The Columbia Review is proud to announce the second installment of our 99th Volume. We would like to thank all of our wonderful contributors, our editorial board, and the Columbia Arts Initiative for their talent, support, and generosity. We are also incredibly proud of our representation of female writers this semester, and we hope to continue in our endeavor to create an inclusive magazine. Every issue is a joy to compile, and a pleasure to read and reread. We hope that you read, share, and relish the work of our astute contributors.
We’d like to thank all of the talented contributors for their great work. We would also like to thank the Gatsby Foundation for their generosity. We hope you enjoy reading this issue as much as we enjoyed putting it together.
We’d like to thank all of the talented contributors for their great work. We would also like to thank the Gatsby Foundation for their generosity. We hope you enjoy reading this issue as much as we enjoyed putting it together.
Ed owns the road. I don’t. And he does the hard work. You can tell that by the cracks in his hands. He looks fearsome if you don’t know him with those pitted cheeks and hard stone eyes. He’s fearsome even if you do know him. The title to that stretch of asphalt, route 87, is held by Ed when he grips the wheel of his old pickup, cranks it up to high gear, and rattles and rocks and farts his way to the next job. He works for no one but himself, takes no shit from…
We’d like to thank all of the talented contributors for their great work. We would also like to thank the Gatsby Foundation for their generosity. We hope you enjoy reading this issue as much as we enjoyed putting it together.