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…
Sunday Staff Picks: November 24th
Slave Play by Jeremy O. Harris Slave Play / Jeremy O. Harris / Golden Theatre to 01/19/2020 What is the correct way to sit and…
Sunday Staff Picks: November 17th
A Prayer for Travelers by Ruchika Tomar A Prayer for Travelers is an intense and intricate debut novel by Ruchika Tomar. Set in the dusty…
Mystery At the Edge of the World: A Review of Julia Phillips’s Disappearing Earth
Disappearing Earth / Julia Phillips / Knopf, 05/2019 – $27 (Hardcover) “In Kamchatka,” Julia Phillips told the Paris Review, “you can slip between the cracks…
Sunday Staff Picks: November 10th
Three Summers by Margarita Liberaki, translated by Karen Van Dyck Threes unfurl in the aptly (re)titled Three Summers by Margarita Liberaki, richly translated by Karen…
A Phoenix from the Ashes: Myth and Memorial in Sara Stridsberg’s Valerie
Valerie, or The Faculty of Dreams: A Novel / Sara Stridsberg, trans. by Deborah Bragan-Turner / FSG, 08/2019 – $27 (Hardcover) Valerie Solanas’s Wikipedia page…
Sunday Staff Picks: October 27th
SoundMachine by Rachel Zucker In her elegiac poem “Rough Waters,” Rachel Zucker asks: “What story is this? / What animal am I?” These two questions…
Sunday Staff Picks: October 20th
Quichotte by Salman Rushdie The title character in Salman Rushdie’s new novel, Quichotte, explains his chivalric quest with the following quotation: “We may be after…