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Objects of Desire

Jars with Well-Fitting Lids

Seeing loss more clearly
Catherine Lacey
Books

Terrance Hayes Won't Be Pinned Down

The virtuosic poet is still finding new ways to dazzle—and thwart—his readers
Stephanie Burt
Interviews

Adam Shatz

The author on Frantz Fanon, revolution, violence, and the psychology of oppression
James Surowiecki
Collection

Love Poems

A bouquet of poems from recent and past issues
A Closer Look

Langston Hughes's "China"

Why the previously unpublished poem is a revelation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

Our Winter 2023 Issue

Poetry

April 2023

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Drama

black pain redux

A dramatic monologue
Jasmine Lee-Jones
Essays

Revisiting Dag Hammarskjöld’s Mysterious Death

One man is known to have survived the infamous crash. Why was his testimony hidden?
Susan Williams
Essays

Free All Necks

How the groundbreaking work of artist and teacher Alma Thomas inspired a generation of Black students
Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Fiction

Winner

Ling Ma
Books

Life in the Algorithm

It has reshaped culture—but how? Two new books reckon with our digital predicament
Anna Shechtman
Conversations

Darran Anderson and Sapphire Goss

A writer and an artist on the sublime potential of video art
Poetry

She Dwells in Violet

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An Annie Ernaux essay, only in print

Our Summer 2026 issue includes an essay by Annie Ernaux, available only to print subscribers. Subscribe by May 11.
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From "Once Seen"

Percival Everett’s portraits
Eugenia Bell
Poetry

material elements of some years of the artist’s life or fabric, wood, paint, and strings

Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Poetry

material elements of some years of the artist’s life or fabric, wood, paint, and strings (reprise)

Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Poems on the Divine: A Folio

Folio

My Sixth Life

Kazim Ali
Folio

Worm Manifesto

Kathleen Radigan
Folio

The Cloisters

Will Brewbaker
Folio

Egress

Gilad Jaffe
Folio

The Repetition of the Wound

Khadijah Queen
Folio

Equinox

Leila Chatti
Essays

Abstraction and Nonsense

The real in fiction
Percival Everett
Television

Streaming the Polycrisis

Why have TV miniseries about catastrophe become all the rage?
Adam Fales
Essays

Ucky Art

Judith Scott, Eva Hesse, and the visceral power of "texxture"
Lauren Elkin
Interviews

Christian Wiman

The poet on the need for awe
Maggie Millner
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
The Moment

Again On the Slaughter

A response to the Israel-Hamas war
Peter Cole
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
The Moment

Speaking Unspeakable Words

A response to the Israel-Hamas war
Feisal G. Mohamed