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100th Volume Retrospective: On a Terrace of Nails by Mark Statman

  • Author thecolumbiareview
  • PublishedDecember 9, 2018October 14, 2019
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Today we return to prose with this work by Mark Statman. Since being published in the Columbia Review, he has published four of his own…

100th Volume Retrospective: Abraham’s Tent by Paul Spike

  • Author thecolumbiareview
  • PublishedDecember 4, 2018
  • 1 Comment on 100th Volume Retrospective: Abraham’s Tent by Paul Spike

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…

Anatomy of AbsenceĀ 

  • Author Sofia Montrone
  • PublishedMarch 25, 2018May 24, 2022
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Photo by Brad Javernick of Home Oomph There was a hole at the table where her son used to be. Once he had sat across…

Baby Blue Sentinel

  • Author Zachariah Crutchfield
  • PublishedMarch 8, 2017

She found sleepingly dead by the twisted tree in his backyard, curled so tightly into himself that she thought he must warmed in the sun…

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