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A Moral Education

In praise of filth
Garth Greenwell
Books

The Mother's Rage

Elena Ferrante and the torment of maternal love
Josh Cohen
Film

All at Once, the Multiverse Is Everywhere

Why today's movies, TV shows, and literature love branching timelines and many worlds
David M. de León
Conversations

Three Queer Writers on Craft and Cruising

Garth Greenwell,
Richie Hofmann,
and
Carl Phillips
Painting of an abstract storm
Books

Metafiction and #MeToo

A new way to write trauma
Maggie Doherty

The Yale Review Spring Festival

Join us April 5-7 for a series of events with novelist and critic Garth Greenwell on morality, desire, and the ethics of readership.
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Fiction

The Front House

Cord Jefferson
Fiction

Subaqueous

Joyce Carol Oates
Fiction

Regular Visitors

Monica Ferrell
Fiction

The Postman

Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu

What he envisioned was an Israel for both Jews and Arabs, one that treated its citizens equally, regardless of ethnicity or religion.

Ratik Asokan On Anton Shammas's Arabesques

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Books

Wong May's Poetry of Exile

In search of a language of unbelonging
Hao Guang Tse (谢皓光)
Essays

The Path to "River See"

How improvisation and ancestry shape a playwright's work
Sharon Bridgforth
Essays

The Rest of the Story

Remembering childhood
Carolyn Forché
Essays

A Faceless Compass

Johannesburg’s haunted streets
Ivan Vladislavić
Fiction

Jana Dives

Tsitsi Dangarembga
Poetry

Threnody

Lorna Goodison
Poetry

The Flood

Cathy Park Hong
Poetry

After the Biopsy

Kwame Dawes
Essays

Reclaiming Tituba

The real story behind Arthur Miller's character
Winsome Pinnock

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Dictee at Forty: A Folio

Folio

The Stakes of Dictee

An introduction to a famously difficult work
Ken Chen
Folio

Space to Grieve

An irreducible legacy
Latipa
Folio

The Weight of Memory

Honoring my dear friend
Yong Soon Min
Folio

Hidden Words

Searching for meaning in a rubber stamp
Uljana Wolf
Folio

Reclaiming Our Language

Dictee as a feminist ritual
Zahra Patterson
Essays

Bottle Torches

A fantasia on Nari Ward
Ishion Hutchinson
Poetry

O’er

Zaffar Kunial
Poetry

On Hearing News of Another Shot Black Man

Kwame Dawes

From the Archives

From the Archives

How Should One Read a Book?

Read as if one were writing it
Virginia Woolf
A painting of a woman reading at a table.
Jan Brandes, Ananas, 1785. Courtesy Rijksmuseum, Amserdam.
Poetry

Sunrise

Louise Glück
From the Archives

For S., at the Boat Pond

Jean Valentine