When I first opened Ghost Forest by Pik-Shuen Fung, I sat alone in my room, one among the laststragglers of those yet to vacate campus…
Sunday Staff Picks: December 4th
Musical Tables, the newest release from former United States Poet Laureate Billy Collins, is a refreshing embrace of minimalistic, short form poetry: Paired with themes…
Review: Duh by Juliet Gelfman-Randazzo
“I need a volunteer. This is a choose your own adventure poem,” says Juliet Gelfman-Randazzo, self-proclaimed “Tall Spy” or so says her Instagram handle, followed…
Sunday Staff Picks: October 30th
The summer before senior year at Berkeley, Hua Hsu’s friend Ken is killed in a carjacking. The tragedy happens hours after Ken’s housewarming party, a…
Sunday Staff Pick: April 25th
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…
Close Reading Series: Sofia Montrone on “(46)” and “(47)”
The Close Reading Series invites our board editors to write about a favorite piece from our Spring 2020 issue. These readings are not intended to…
“My fantasy of a memoir about nothing”: Kate Zambreno’s Drifts
Kate Zambreno’s latest work of autofiction, Drifts, is a novel about the process of writing a novel, or, at least, the process of thinking about…
In Support of BLM: Organizations to Donate to
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture: https://www.nypl.org/support/membership/schomburg-society “Harlem’s beloved NYPL branch—a research institution, community center, and artistic stronghold dedicated to Black history and…
Apocalypse Now: Reading Severance in the Time of Coronavirus
Severance / Ling Ma / Picador, 05/2019 – $17 (Paperback) The routine has become automatic. In the mornings I stand bleary-eyed at the counter and…
Prompts for Quarantine
In response to the quarantine, The Columbia Review editorial board will share every other day a series of prompts, which we hope will inspire our…