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Fady Joudah

The poet on how the war in Gaza changed his work
Aria Aber

Miranda July

The novelist on the difference between emotional honesty and autobiography
Meghan O’Rourke

In Medias Res

Percival Everett

Abstraction and Nonsense

The real in fiction
Percival Everett

Meaning is in crisis. And we are embroiled, everywhere, in contests over meaning—which are also contests of power, contests over living. And dying.

Christina Sharpe The Shapes of Grief

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Is Blasphemy Illiberal?

Salman Rushdie’s thoroughly modern controversies
Len Gutkin

Chantal Akerman’s Elusive Interiors

What the filmmaker’s portrayal of women reveals—and withholds
Emily LaBarge

How Mike Kelley Became Himself

The artist’s search for subcultural America
Jonathan Griffin

Mister Durand

An excerpt from a novel in progress
Deirdre Madden

The All of You X cept

An excerpt
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The Poets Awoke

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Writing in Pictures

Richard Scarry and the art of children’s literature
Chris Ware

Vintage Merch

Buying someone else’s history
Hanif Abdurraqib

The Path to Playwright

Discovering my literary hero in an unlikely place
Sonya Kelly

Each year the Windham-Campbell Prizes recognize outstanding literary achievement by eight contemporary writers. This issue of The Yale Review, our fifth collaboration with the Prizes, features new writing by this year’s recipients and by previous Prize winners.

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The Hundred Flowers Project

An excerpt and annotation

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Sanctuary

Danielle McLaughlin

I do think art is useful to us, but I think that usefulness is hugely mysterious—you can’t engineer it.

An interview with Garth Greenwell

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The Poet as a Young Critic

In Thom Gunn’s early work for The Yale Review, he valued style above all else
Langdon Hammer

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