Diane Mehta is a freelance journalist and writer. She has previously published a book on writing poetry, and her debut poetry collection, Forest with Castanets, will…
100th Volume Retrospective: Nature Mort by Jim Jarmusch
Jim Jarmusch, a former editor of The Columbia Review, is a director, screenwriter, and actor. He won the Caméra d’Or prize at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival for…
100th Volume Retrospective: Abraham’s Tent by Paul Spike
Today we have our first prose piece in the retrospective series. It was written by Paul Spike, now known best for his memoir Photographs of…
100th Volume Retrospective: Poem by Tory Dent
The Columbia Review printed this work by Tory Dent while she was studying at Barnard College. She later published three volumes of poetry and received…
A Meditation on Childhood Stories
I found an old diary of my mother’s a few weeks ago containing a number of humorous anecdotes and stories from my childhood. I don’t…
100th Volume Retrospective: Racing to the Coast by Leslie Gottesman
Today’s poem was written by Leslie Gottesman, who went on to become a professor of English at Golden Gate University. Racing to the Coast by…
100th Volume Retrospective: Atonement by Mary Morris
As a countdown to the release of the first issue of our 100th volume on December 14th, we will be posting pieces every day from previous issues…
The Tyranny of Memory: Yanagihara in Amsterdam
Hanya Yanagihara’s 2015 novel A Little Life can be briefly summarized as the story of four college roommates, their enduring friendship and soaring careers, but it…
On Tallulah Bankhead by Augustus Edwin John (1930)
I first saw her at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., having a few minutes to spare before scurrying off to a panel at…
Endnotes on Pale Fire
Azure adj. blue, bright, cloudless; (of love) cloudless: The false azure of cloudless love. And when a noun – heaven, palate, the roof of one’s…