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Why can’t we stop talking about nonmonogamy?
Brandy Jensen
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The Heart of Fiction

Storytelling, experience, and truth
Hernan Diaz
Objects of Desire

Omega Constellation

Unwinding what I lost
Alexander Chee
Essays

When Metaphor Gets Literal

What my mother’s coma taught me about reading poems
Jennifer Grotz

The Yale Review Festival

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The Nature of Shelter

Brenda Shaughnessy
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Fady Joudah

The poet on how the war in Gaza changed his work
Aria Aber
The activist Gloria Richardson walking past National Guardsmen during a civil rights march in Cambridge
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Unbothered

The grace of black nonchalance
Namwali Serpell
Susan Sontag, New York, February 2, 1978. Photograph by Richard Avedon. ©The Richard Avedon Foundation.
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Furious Permissions

For Susan Sontag, style was nourishment
Brian Dillon

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We are thrilled to announce that The Yale Review has won the 2024 National Magazine Award for General Excellence in Literature, Science and Politics from the American Society of Magazine Editors!
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"The Waste Land" Revisited

Helen Vendler
Annotating the Archives

The Common Reader

Virginia Woolf in The Yale Review
Claire Messud
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A Non-Euclidean View of California as a Cold Place to Be

Ursula K. Le Guin
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Reading and Misreading

Jonathan Culler

It is shocking to me now to consider myself at twenty-three, show­ing up unannounced at a famous poet’s door.

Dana Levin Lessons of the Line

Our Spring 2024 Issue

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Gender Wars

Two scholars excavate the origins of today’s trans backlash
Paisley Currah
Poetry

Where

Rae Armantrout
Poetry

Angel Jacks

Brian Blanchfield
Objects of Desire

Jars with Well-Fitting Lids

Seeing loss more clearly
Catherine Lacey
Essays

Heat Maps

Desire in the dark
Alex Marzano-Lesnevich

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Interviews

Rachel Cusk

The novelist on the “feminine non-state of non-being”
Merve Emre
Poetry

In Utero and After

Catherine Barnett
Poetry

Nicholson Baker and I

Catherine Barnett
Fiction

Rosaura at Dawn

Daniel Saldaña París
translated by Christina MacSweeney
Poetry

Catechumen

Kéchi Nne Nomu
Poetry

Litany for a Prolonged Dream

Joyce Mansour
translated by C. Francis Fisher
Poetry

The Search

Catherine Barnett
Poetry

Banquo’s Ghost in Paterson

Martín Espada
Poetry

Memories Don’t Live Like People Do

Donauta Watson
A Closer Look

Candy Darling’s “Newspaper” Centerfold

Encountering the infamous collage of a downtown legend
Lucy Sante
A Closer Look

Langston Hughes's "China"

Why the previously unpublished poem is a revelation
Selina Lai-Henderson
A Closer Look

Ed Ruscha's "Every Building on the Sunset Strip"

Why the artists' book is a reminder of freedom
Jim Lewis