Tawanda Mulalu’s Please make me pretty, I don’t want to die begins at a bathroom mirror, where the poet stands combing coiled knots out of…
Review: The Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
Between the 1 and the 0: Review of Sea of Tranquility by Emily St.John Mandel Emily St. John Mandel takes the reader on a poignant…
Sunday Staff Picks: October 7th
The Trees Witness Everything by Victoria Chang The first thing you will notice about The Trees Witness Everything by Victoria Chang is the shape of…
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Scattered All Over the Earth by Yoko Tawada, translated by Margaret Mitsutani Scattered All Over the Earth, the first installment of a trilogy by Japanese…
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Afterfeast by Lisa Hiton “Here are lovers ripening in the purple sky, the space where there is nothing between. Face me. Leap into it. The…
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In Intimacies, Katie Kitamura’s fourth novel, the unnamed narrator moves to the Hague for a one-year gig as an interpreter at the International Criminal Court,…
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You can be sure a collection of science fiction stories will be unique when it begins with “A Brief Reflection on Breasts”—Bo-Young Kim’s provocative forward…
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A Door Behind a Door by Yelena Moskovich Yelena Moskovich’s A Door Behind a Door may be disorienting to a reader who desires a clean…
Sunday Staff Pick: October 10th
The Death of Sitting Bear: New and Selected Poems by N. Scott Momaday “a book of poems arrived in the afternoon a bound excitement” (haiku…
Interview with Corey Sobel
Editor-in-Chief Ryan Daar sat down with Corey Sobel, author of “Style” from The Columbia Review’s Spring 2021 issue. Corey’s debut novel, The Redshirt, was a…