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Join us in New Haven from April 16-19 for readings, workshops, and panels.

Our Spring 2024 Issue

Read the issue online now, featuring Catherine Lacey, Rachel Cusk, and others.

When Metaphor Gets Literal

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

Terrance Hayes Won't Be Pinned Down

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


The Brink of Destruction

Revisiting John Ashbery’s “Soonest Mended”
Edward Hirsch

Poems of Lovesickness

Nine poets on eros and longing

Invitation

Carl Phillips

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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Antique Medical Slides

Specimens of my past and future self
Leslie Jamison

Candy Darling’s “Newspaper” Centerfold

Encountering the infamous collage of a downtown legend
Lucy Sante

Portfolio

Mylar Balloons on Horse Island

Incidental objects at the Peabody Museum’s outpost
Claire Hungerford

The Story Wars

The conflict between Red and Blue America is a clash of national mythologies
Richard Slotkin

The Auteur of Fatherhood

How Steven Spielberg recast American masculinity
Phillip Maciak

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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Books

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

Fady Joudah

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

Parents Just Don’t Understand—and That’s OK

All of Us Strangers charts a new direction for queer cinema
Lio Wong

Books

Terrance Hayes Won't Be Pinned Down

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

Adam Shatz

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

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Fady Joudah
Books

In Search of Albertine

The feminist afterlives of Proust's iconic character
Victoria Baena

Adam Shatz

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

Streaming the Polycrisis

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

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

William Blake’s "Laocoön"

Why the poet's engraving reads like a protest poster
Anahid Nersessian