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…
An Interview with Mark Statman
The first thing that Mark Statman – translator, poet, and The Columbia Review alumnus – told me during our phone conversation was that there were…
Sunday Staff Picks: October 13th
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong It is a pleasure to read a sentence that makes language new; it is a revelation to…