Spring 2025

Spring 2025 is the latest edition of the Columbia Review. For now, selected pieces are exclusively available online. The final issue will be designed and printed in September 2025. We will distribute free copies across campus and to local bookstores and we will also upload a pdf of the issue to our website.

“Autopista José Antonio Páez” by Valeria Rodrigo

"In Candle's Words" by Farīd-al-dīn Aṭṭār, translated by Ali Asadollahi

"PAM’S FINGERTRAP” by Ben Hyland

“SPRING LIGHT” By Cameron Cocking

“Today I Want to Miss Only My Favorite Shoes of All Time” by Dean Browne

“Anniversary” by Dean Browne

“Reverb” by Dean Browne

“THE MADONNA WITH THE PEAR” by Emily Adams-Aucoin

“Producer Tags” by Jeffrey H. MacLachlan

“Lately” by Kelan Nee

“IMPERFECT CIRCLE” by Kyle Trethewey

“Capillary Action” by Lorren Richards

“Shoe-Box” by Lorren Richards

“A Patch of Gray” by Najwan Darwish, translated by Kareem James Abu-Zeid

“A Comment beneath a Painting by Mahmoud Sabri” by Najwan Darwish, translated by Kareem James Abu-Zeid

“Richard Remembers My Mother Singing” by Susan Barba

“The Destiny of a Great Man is a Muse” by Susan Barba

“At Madame Hagopian’s” by Susan Barba

“Sam” by W.M. Lobko

“my belly eye is a teenage priest and” by Zixuan Xin

“Early May” by Julie Foster

“Traba Nada” by Brian Alarcon

"C” from Until the Victim Becomes Our Own by Dimitris Lyacos, translated by Andrew Barrett

“ZONGO” by Ian Grody

“Rough Diary: A Senegal Diary” from Fugitive Tilts by Ishion Hutchinson

“Dead Verbs” by Andrew Forrest Joseph Blake

“TWO MYSTICS” by Malcolm Sepulchre

“so gone” by Eugene Goldin