Volume I

Kierkegaard: Master of Masks

David Lehman

CC ’70, Cambridge ’72, GSAS ’78

Prose/Poetry

Christ On A Bike

Will Sussbauer

Yale University ‘27

Prose

Ninnosperononek

Ryan Matera

SoA ’27

Prose

Memory, Memorial, Monument

David Alexander Papiasvili

CC ‘08

Prose

Notes on Travel

Fenris Zimmer

CC ‘26

Prose

A Note on Columbia Writers: 1920-1932

Mark Van Doren

GSAS ‘1920, Professor of English

Prose

Tu Bishvat

Ari Gordon

CC ‘27

Poetry

Three Poems

Rachel Hadas

Radcliffe ‘69, Johns Hopkins ‘77 Princeton ‘82

Prose

Submissions are currently open for Volume II, which will hopefully appear in print. Send us your work: submit@varsityreview.com. If you are interested in joining the editorial staff of The Varsity Review, reach out to Ari at contact@varsityreview.com.

Editor-in-Chief
Ari Gordon

Prose Editor
Finn Witham

Poetry Editor
Fenris Zimmer

Art Editor
Talia Grogan Schmidt

December 1923 Cover,
The New Columbia Varsity

The Varsity Review was an undergraduate literary magazine at Columbia University in the early 20th century. Lionel Trilling, John Dewey, Jacques Barzun, Mark Van Doren, are a few of the storied scholars, writers, and students who contributed to the original magazine. In a catholic fashion, they published pieces both high- and lowbrow, poetry and prose, from members all across the Columbia community. While there are many active literary magazines at Columbia today, few encompass the wide reach of Columbia’s literary milieu, past and present. The mission of the revived The Varsity Review is much the same as it was then: to publish and republish material that tries to live up to Columbia University’s sui generis literary tradition, reaching as far and wide as possible.