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Sunday Staff Picks: March 26th

  • Author thecolumbiareview
  • PublishedMarch 26, 2023
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Szilvia Molnar’s debut novel The Nursery is visceral and uncomfortable—  Molnar presents the reader with a portrait of new motherhood with all its agonies, its…

Sunday Staff Picks: December 4th

  • Author thecolumbiareview
  • PublishedDecember 4, 2022

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…

Sunday Staff Picks: November 27th

  • Author thecolumbiareview
  • PublishedNovember 27, 2022

George Saunders’ newest collection of short stories, Liberation Day, is an intriguing blend of realism and dystopian, but Saunders shines brightest in the stories that…

Sunday Staff Picks: October 30th

  • Author thecolumbiareview
  • PublishedOctober 30, 2022

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 Picks: October 23

  • Author thecolumbiareview
  • PublishedOctober 23, 2022October 23, 2022

“called forward.” These words mark Ocean Vuong’s opening acknowledgements of his poetrycollection Time is a Mother, dedicated to Vuong’s partner, Peter, and Vuong’s late mother,…

Review: The Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

  • Author thecolumbiareview
  • PublishedOctober 9, 2022December 4, 2022

Between the 1 and the 0: Review of Sea of Tranquility by Emily St.John Mandel  Emily St. John Mandel takes the reader on a poignant…

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 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: November 22nd

  • Author thecolumbiareview
  • PublishedNovember 23, 2020November 23, 2020

Must I Go by Yiyun Li Lilia, an 81-year-old mother of five, grandmother of seventeen, and widow of three, is the anchor of Yiyun Li’s…

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