This piece by Yusef Komunyakaa from our 22nd issue, published in the winter of ’94, speaks to the resilience of marginalized people in the U.S., specifically the Black descendants of […]
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This piece by Yusef Komunyakaa from our 22nd issue, published in the winter of ’94, speaks to the resilience of marginalized people in the U.S., specifically the Black descendants of […]
This work by Brooklyn-born poet, playwright, and translator Edwin Honig, which appeared in our Fall 1978 issue, spoke to me right away. In a time of war, it’s impossible to […]
In a pink-painted room, in the throes of grief at my childhood cat dying without being able to say goodbye to him because I was away at college, a kind […]
I was at a loss for words when I first read Gonzalo Rojas’s “Numen.” I couldn’t find any solid ground in the distance between the images he uses. After a […]
Young adults who move back in with their parents after a period of living independently are known as “boomerang kids.” Once the subject of moral consternation by a commentariat convinced […]
If, like me, you’re eagerly awaiting the release of Jennifer Egan’s latest novel The Candy House next month, you’ll appreciate how serendipitous it felt to find this excerpt from her […]
This past week, many of my waking thoughts have strayed towards Ukraine, as I am sure is true for many. Between fear of nuclear threats from Russia, the danger of […]
I think often about grief writing and almost always in relation to how a professor once told me to underwrite grief, that to downplay it was the most effective way […]
This initial version of Marie Howe’s “The Gate” appeared in our 1996 winter issue—coincidentally the year and season of my own birth. For a number of reasons, I’ve been obsessed […]
It isn’t difficult to want to write about the sea. The open ocean is a cliché that one can’t get away from—at least, I can’t, or don’t, want to. Of […]
Elsa has a problem: she is invisible to everyone. Published by Columbia Journal in 1999, “Elsa Minor” investigates the relationship among mental health, human faith, and absurdism. In five brief […]
Tech gadgets, outdoor-grilling gear, and novelty mugs are the gifts that we might expect a son to bestow upon his father. Not so in “World Champion,” a short story by […]
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