Editor (now alumna) Maddie Woda reviews Jihyun Yun’s first collection, Some Are Always Hungry. In 2016, I stumbled upon Jihyun Yun’s poem “Recipe: Dak-dori-tang” in…
Review: Afterlife by Julia Alvarez
Spencer Grayson reviews Julia Alvarez’ Afterlife. Julia Alvarez’s new novel begins with verse, not prose, in a prologue titled “Broken English.” Her narrator Antonia Vega…
Close Reading Series: Morgan Levine on “Sonnet”
The Close Reading Series invites our board editors to write about a favorite piece from our Spring 2020 issue. These readings are not intended to…
Everything is Personal, This is Personal Too
Editor Emmi Mack reviews Laurie Stone’s latest collection, Everything is Personal: Notes on Now. In her latest collection of hybrid nonfiction, Everything is Personal: Notes…
Close Reading Series: Sofia Montrone on “(46)” and “(47)”
The Close Reading Series invites our board editors to write about a favorite piece from our Spring 2020 issue. These readings are not intended to…
Close Reading Series: Spencer Grayson on “Newly, rendered, truly”
The Close Reading Series invites our board editors to write about a favorite piece from our Spring 2020 issue. These readings are not intended to…
“My fantasy of a memoir about nothing”: Kate Zambreno’s Drifts
Kate Zambreno’s latest work of autofiction, Drifts, is a novel about the process of writing a novel, or, at least, the process of thinking about…
Close Reading Series: Maddie Woda on “The Crushing Pain of Existence”
The Close Reading Series invites our board editors to write about a favorite piece from our Spring 2020 issue. These readings are not intended to…
Bryn Evans: Weight, Time, & the Afrofuture
AN INTERVIEW CONDUCTED BY MORGAN LEVINE Bryn Evans received our Spring 2020 Poetry Prize for her poem “Thotiana’s interlude, or Barbara Mason reconsiders settling down.”…
Sara Kachelman: On Friendship and the “Old-World Horror” of Climate Change
An interview conducted by Sofia Montrone Sara Kachelman received The Columbia Review’s Spring 2020 Prose Prize for her short story “Friends of the Gyre.” Her…