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…
Review: Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler
Editor Thomas Mar Wee reviews Lauren Oyler’s Fake Accounts. In the opening pages of Fake Accounts, the recent debut novel by Lauren Oyler, who is…
Like a tune you just can’t shake: Larissa Pham’s Pop Song
Editor Sofia Montrone reviews Larissa Pham’s Pop Song: Adventures in Art & Intimacy In the silence, in the dark, Larissa Pham hears something shift. First…
Sunday Staff Pick: April 25th
The Earliest Witnesses by G. C. Waldrep Can we touch the gods? What does the body feel when language fabricates transparency? How do we perceive…
Sunday Staff Picks: March 28th
Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri Whereabouts sees the incomparable Jhumpa Lahiri turn her talents to the interior world. The episodic novel follows the wanderings of an…
Sunday Staff Picks: March 7th
There’s No Such Thing As An Easy Job by Kikuko Tsumara, translated by Polly Barton Kikuko Tsumara’s protagonist is burnt out beyond description from work.…
Sunday Staff Picks: February 21st
The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen “Down in the bottom of my childhood my father stands laughing.” So begins the second chapter of Childhood, the…
Sunday Staff Picks: January 31st
Three Brothers by Yan Lianke Yan Lianke’s work Three Brothers, translated by Carlos Rojas, is a tour-de-force of language and reflection. Ostensibly a memoir, Three…