My freshman year dorm wall was, as most tend to be, a collage of magazine clippings and postcards and poems. The effort that went into…
Dickinson, Unedited: The Significance of the Exhibit at the Morgan
When I saw that there would be an exhibit on Emily Dickinson at the Morgan, I was very excited but somewhat surprised. It’s exciting that…
Finding a Room of One’s Own in the Modern Day
As both an English major and a woman, Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own is considered in my respective circles to be something of…
Ed’s Story
Ed owns the road. I don’t. And he does the hard work. You can tell that by the cracks in his hands. He looks…
The Fall 2016 Issue is Here!
We’d like to thank all of the talented contributors for their great work. We would also like to thank the Gatsby Foundation for their generosity. We…
Discovering Richard Feynman
I spent three of my four high school summers, in between pre-college programs and summer swim team, shelving books at my local library. I envisioned…
Apply to Join the Columbia Review!
The Columbia Review is accepting applications for board members! We are the oldest college literary magazine in the nation, and we publish poetry and prose…
The Fall 2015 and Spring 2016 issues are (finally) here!
We’d like to thank all of the talented contributors for their great work. We would also like to thank the Gatsby Foundation for their generosity. We…
Unlovely Love
The only reason I regret walking out of Gaspar Noé’s Love partway through is that I cannot, in good conscience, write a scathing review of…
Blog Roll: Three Thoughts on A D Jameson & the Avant-Garde
I. I’ve been writing exclusively in long-form the past twelve months and become exhausted. Simultaneously, my writing has become more self-conscious, self-reflexive,…