“The nosy neighbor is not an urban figure,” insists author Fran Lebowitz in Public Speaking, the 2010 documentary about her life directed by Martin Scorsese. I recalled this riff as I […]
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“The nosy neighbor is not an urban figure,” insists author Fran Lebowitz in Public Speaking, the 2010 documentary about her life directed by Martin Scorsese. I recalled this riff as I […]
In 1994, Columbia Journal published an early rendition of Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red before the piece found its form as a novel-in-verse and was published four years later by […]
One amazing thing about poetry is that it doesn’t have to make sense. Many of us spend our days working toward clarity, in our communications with one another, in our […]
I’ve always been tickled pink by the thought of séances. To call back the dead and learn what they have to tell us: what a marvelous thing, and what a […]
In a few weeks, I will return to my childhood home for Thanksgiving. It will be the first time in years. The holiday is, despite its colonial underpinnings, a favorite […]
As much of pop culture has been reminding us for a while now, fairy tales are quite a bit more irksome than Disney would have us suppose. And it is […]
How would you end the sentence “2021 was the year of . . .”? Depending on the lens with which you want to retrospectively view the last ten months, you […]
Misunderstanding is a highlight of the virtual communication status quo; at least, lots of people have tended to think so for the past year and a half. “I can see […]
Here in Morningside Heights, we have decidedly entered the season of autumn. The days are becoming shorter and cooler, and foliage is beginning to blush—estival abundance is slowly shifting toward […]
It’s now fall and October—which means that the ghoulish among us can at last revel in the twilight of the year. It’s quite a beautiful season and month: there’s a […]
“We shall not cease from exploration / And the end of all our exploring / Will be to arrive where we started / And know the place for the first […]
I’m Zak, a second-year poetry concentrator and this year’s archivist for the Columbia Journal. In celebration of our sixtieth issue, I will be leading various archival projects, and I’m pleased […]
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