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
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
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
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
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
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…
Interview with Corey Sobel
Editor-in-Chief Ryan Daar sat down with Corey Sobel, author of “Style” from The Columbia Review’s Spring 2021 issue. Corey’s debut novel, The Redshirt, was a…
Review: Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler
Editor Thomas Mar Wee reviews Lauren Oyler’s Fake Accounts. In the opening pages of Fake Accounts, the recent debut novel by Lauren Oyler, who is…
Like a tune you just can’t shake: Larissa Pham’s Pop Song
Editor Sofia Montrone reviews Larissa Pham’s Pop Song: Adventures in Art & Intimacy In the silence, in the dark, Larissa Pham hears something shift. First…
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…