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The Polycrisis

Why can’t we stop talking about nonmonogamy?
Brandy Jensen

The Heart of Fiction

Storytelling, experience, and truth
Hernan Diaz

Omega Constellation

Unwinding what I lost
Alexander Chee

When Metaphor Gets Literal

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

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

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

Announcing the Winner of the Yale Nonfiction Book Prize

The Yale Review and Yale University Press are thrilled to announce that Jonathan Gleason is the inaugural winner of the prize for his manuscript Field Guide to Falling Ill, selected by Meghan O'Rourke.
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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

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Gender Wars

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

Where

Rae Armantrout


Angel Jacks

Brian Blanchfield

Jars with Well-Fitting Lids

Seeing loss more clearly
Catherine Lacey

Heat Maps

Desire in the dark
Alex Marzano-Lesnevich

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Rachel Cusk

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

In Utero and After

Catherine Barnett

Rosaura at Dawn

Daniel Saldaña París
translated by Christina MacSweeney

Catechumen

Kéchi Nne Nomu

Litany for a Prolonged Dream

Joyce Mansour
translated by C. Francis Fisher

The Search

Catherine Barnett

Candy Darling’s “Newspaper” Centerfold

Encountering the infamous collage of a downtown legend
Lucy Sante

Langston Hughes's "China"

Why the previously unpublished poem is a revelation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

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

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