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Our Summer 2023 Issue

Essays

Notes on Affirmation

SFFA v. Harvard and the quest for acceptance
Thomas Dai
Essays

This Part of Our Lives Is Over

Sending my daughter to Japan
Emily Bernard
Essays

James Baldwin in Turkey

How Istanbul changed his career—and his life
Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi
Essays

Ahead of Time

On poetry and mourning
Kamran Javadizadeh
Books

Ordinary Allurements

Christina Sharpe’s reading lessons
Elleza Kelley

Everything I do starts in the personal, and if it doesn’t, it dies.

Raven Leilani interviewed by Rizvana Bradley

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Essays

Abstraction and Nonsense

The real in fiction
Percival Everett
Essays

New York Anabasis

In praise of the return to the surface
Rachel Eisendrath
Books

The Consolations of Failure

Two new books look at what failing can—and cannot—teach us
Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen
TYR Talks

Garth Greenwell on the Ethical Limits of Teaching and Making Art

An excerpt from The Yale Review's Spring Festival
Garth Greenwell
Portfolio

New Directions

David Korty’s next chapter
Portfolio

Terrains of the Imaginary

Finding escape in survey maps
Geoff Manaugh
Portfolio

Nobody Knows That You Are Gay

Imagining a queer archive
Robyn Day
Portfolio

Exile and Memory

Reimagining Iran through 200-year-old portraits
Amak Mahmoodian
Poetry

When I Drop My Armor, When My Armor Falls

Donika Kelly
Poetry

Like

Sasha Debevec-McKenney
Poetry

Self-Portrait with Friend

Donika Kelly
Poetry

Becoming Mary

Mary Jo Bang
Poetry

The Museum of Mary

Mary Jo Bang

Distraction and Attention: A Folio

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Folio

How to Sharpen a Scythe

Is paying attention good in itself?
Daegan Miller
Folio

Sublimation and Self-Possession

Bearing witness to life’s weirdness
Ana Schwartz
Folio

Beyond the Attention Economy

Turning to face our burning world
Laura Dassow Walls
Essays

The Wild, Sublime Body

Learning how to be human
Melissa Febos
A woman at the beach with a watermelon
Poem of the Week

For the Man on His Knees at The Eagle

Francisco Márquez
Essays

The Screen is a Mirror

On gender transition in the Zoom era
S. Brook Corfman
Interviews

Wayne Koestenbaum

The polymath on his creative process
Brandon Menke
Books

Whose Trans Realism?

Nevada and the fiction of fucking up
Kay Gabriel