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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
Chantal Akerman’s Elusive Interiors
What the filmmaker’s portrayal of women reveals—and withholds
Emily LaBarge
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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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
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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