Temporary by Hilary Leichter “I have a shorthand kind of career,” confesses the protagonist of Temporary, Hilary Leichter’s zippy debut novel. This confession is true,…
Sunday Staff Picks: April 19th
Sh*t is F*cked Up and Bullsh*t by Malcolm Harris I picked up Sh*t is F*cked Up and Bullsh*t for fairly obvious reasons. Released less than…
Sunday Staff Picks: April 5th
We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry Quan Barry’s latest novel, set in a Massachusetts coastal town, delivers witches, field hockey, and late 1980s cultural…
Sunday Staff Picks: March 29th
Staten Island Stories by Claire Jimenez In Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, a group of strangers embark on a pilgrimage to Canterbury, telling stories to pass…
Sunday Staff Picks: March 1st
A Sand Book by Ariana Reines Newly crowned winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the dizzying four hundred-page epic A Sand Book by Ariana Reines…
Sunday Staff Picks: February 23rd
The Gilded Auction Block by Shane McCrae Addressing America, Shane McCrae’s speaker in “Everything I Know About Blackness I Learned from Donald Trump” says “even…
Sunday Staff Picks: February 9th
Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener Everyone who’s worked in publishing has had the same dream: flee New York, join a tech company, and make barrels…
Sunday Staff Picks: January 26th
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado Carmen Maria Machado’s urgent memoir, In the Dream House, confronts the literary archive’s dismissal of her and…
Sunday Staff Picks: Favorites of the Decade
In celebration of the approach of 2020, the Columbia Review staff members use this as an opportunity to look back over the books from the…
Sunday Staff Picks: December 1st
Further Up the Path by Daniel Oz, translated by Jessica Cohen I cannot decide how one should read Further Up the Path. Daniel Oz’s collection…