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Ahead of Time

On poetry and mourning
Kamran Javadizadeh
Poetry

Becoming Mary

Mary Jo Bang
Poem of the Week

Chore Dress

Jessica Abughattas
Essays

James Baldwin in Turkey

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

This Part of Our Lives Is Over

Sending my daughter to Japan
Emily Bernard

The absence of meaning is a kind of meaning, isn't it?

Percival Everett Abstraction and Nonsense

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New York Anabasis

In praise of the return to the surface
Rachel Eisendrath
Essays

Notes on Affirmation

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

Ordinary Allurements

Christina Sharpe’s reading lessons
Elleza Kelley
Fiction

Bystander

Jamel Brinkley
Fiction

Cumulus

Agnes Lidbeck
Fiction

The Rally

Molly Dektar
TYR Talks

Emily Bernard on Pursuing Your Truth as a Writer

An excerpt from The Yale Review's Spring Festival
Emily Bernard
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

With Each Bird Flying, Time Is Passing

Elizabeth Metzger
Poetry

Self-Portrait with Friend

Donika Kelly
Poetry

Watching "National Treasure" for the First Time

Sasha Debevec-McKenney

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
From the Archives

How Should One Read a Book?

Read as if one were writing it
Virginia Woolf
A painting of a woman reading at a table.
From the Archives

Bounty

Cormac McCarthy
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
From the Archives

Making Contact

Encounters with readers
Annie Dillard