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Sunday Staff Picks: October 7th

  • Author thecolumbiareview
  • PublishedOctober 9, 2022October 16, 2022

The Trees Witness Everything by Victoria Chang The first thing you will notice about The Trees Witness Everything by Victoria Chang is the shape of…

Sunday Staff Picks: May 1st

  • Author thecolumbiareview
  • PublishedMay 1, 2022

Scattered All Over the Earth by Yoko Tawada, translated by Margaret Mitsutani Scattered All Over the Earth, the first installment of a trilogy by Japanese…

Sunday Staff Picks: February 27th

  • Author thecolumbiareview
  • PublishedFebruary 27, 2022February 27, 2022

Afterfeast by Lisa Hiton “Here are lovers ripening in the purple sky, the space where there is nothing between. Face me. Leap into it. The…

Sunday Staff Picks: December 12th

  • Author thecolumbiareview
  • PublishedDecember 12, 2021February 5, 2022

In Intimacies, Katie Kitamura’s fourth novel, the unnamed narrator moves to the Hague for a one-year gig as an interpreter at the International Criminal Court,…

Sunday Staff Picks: November 14th

  • Author thecolumbiareview
  • PublishedNovember 14, 2021November 14, 2021

You can be sure a collection of science fiction stories will be unique when it begins with “A Brief Reflection on Breasts”—Bo-Young Kim’s provocative forward…

Sunday Staff Picks: October 17th

  • Author thecolumbiareview
  • PublishedOctober 18, 2021November 19, 2021

A Door Behind a Door by Yelena Moskovich Yelena Moskovich’s A Door Behind a Door may be disorienting to a reader who desires a clean…

Sunday Staff Pick: October 10th

  • Author thecolumbiareview
  • PublishedOctober 11, 2021

The Death of Sitting Bear: New and Selected Poems by N. Scott Momaday “a book of poems arrived in the afternoon a bound excitement” (haiku…

Sunday Staff Pick: April 25th

  • Author thecolumbiareview
  • PublishedApril 25, 2021October 11, 2021

The Earliest Witnesses by G. C. Waldrep Can we touch the gods? What does the body feel when language fabricates transparency? How do we perceive…

Sunday Staff Picks: March 28th

  • Author thecolumbiareview
  • PublishedMarch 28, 2021April 25, 2021

Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri Whereabouts sees the incomparable Jhumpa Lahiri turn her talents to the interior world. The episodic novel follows the wanderings of an…

Sunday Staff Picks: March 7th

  • Author thecolumbiareview
  • PublishedMarch 10, 2021March 28, 2021

There’s No Such Thing As An Easy Job by Kikuko Tsumara, translated by Polly Barton Kikuko Tsumara’s protagonist is burnt out beyond description from work.…

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