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Paul Auster

Why the novelist’s brand of postmodern detective fiction still matters
Ben Libman
Poetry

Theater Selfie

Gregory Pardlo
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Yellow Band

A diagnosis alters a writer's relationship to his work
Steve Edwards
Essays

When Metaphor Gets Literal

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

I have no interest in going to grad school for relationships, especially when the other students sound so keen to be best in class.

Brandy Jensen The Polycrisis

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From the Archives

From the Archives

Gods

Vladimir Nabokov
translated by Dmitri Nabokov
Annotating the Archives

The Common Reader

Virginia Woolf in The Yale Review
Claire Messud
From the Archives

A Non-Euclidean View of California as a Cold Place to Be

Ursula K. Le Guin
From the Archives

The White Umbrella

Gish Jen

Our Spring 2024 Issue

Books

Gender Wars

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

Where

Rae Armantrout
Poetry

Angel Jacks

Brian Blanchfield
Objects of Desire

Jars with Well-Fitting Lids

Seeing loss more clearly
Catherine Lacey
Essays

Heat Maps

Desire in the dark
Alex Marzano-Lesnevich

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Interviews

Rachel Cusk

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

In Utero and After

Catherine Barnett
Poetry

Nicholson Baker and I

Catherine Barnett
Fiction

Rosaura at Dawn

Daniel Saldaña París
translated by Christina MacSweeney
Poetry

Catechumen

Kéchi Nne Nomu
Poetry

Litany for a Prolonged Dream

Joyce Mansour
translated by C. Francis Fisher
Poetry

The Search

Catherine Barnett
Poetry

Banquo’s Ghost in Paterson

Martín Espada
Poetry

Memories Don’t Live Like People Do

Donauta Watson
A Closer Look

Candy Darling’s “Newspaper” Centerfold

Encountering the infamous collage of a downtown legend
Lucy Sante
A Closer Look

Langston Hughes's "China"

Why the previously unpublished poem is a revelation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

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

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