April 2019

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Volume 107, No. 2
April 2019
The Yale Review

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Nonfiction

Louie Bellson lighting Pearl Bailey's cigarette

Cultural Differences

How fictional portrayals of intermarriage haven't quite caught up
Jennifer Acker
April 1, 2019
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Music in the Second Person

Listening to Opus 110
Mark Mazullo
April 1, 2019
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Myth and Anarchy

Matthew Spellberg
April 1, 2019
A photograph of Ann Petry.

Nothing New Under the Sun

Ann Petry’s The Street and The Narrows
Emily Bernard
April 1, 2019
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Books

On "kaddish.com"

Fiction in review
David Galef
April 1, 2019
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Books

On Nine Recent Collections

Poetry in review
Stephanie Burt
April 1, 2019
A portrait by Picasso of Gertrude Stein.

“Sitting at the Table” with Stein and Ashbery

“An Occasion” for Thin[g]king
Karin Roffman
April 1, 2019

Criticism

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Music

On Modern Composition

Music in review
Timothy Young
April 1, 2019
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Film

The Cinematic Afterlife of James Baldwin

Film in review
Ayten Tartici
April 1, 2019

Fiction

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Stalking

John Sayles
April 1, 2019
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The Silver Pearl

Joanna Scott
April 1, 2019
A painting of four Koreans by Shin Yun-Bok.

The Woman Next Door

Ha Seong-Nan
and
Janet Hong
April 1, 2019

Poetry

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An Old Theme

Derek Mahon
April 1, 2019
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Baggy-arsed country

Jacques Moulin
and
David Ball
April 1, 2019
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Bulgur

Peter Balakian
April 1, 2019
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Cassandra in San Francisco

Henry Sloss
April 1, 2019
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Chaos Theory

Barry Goldensohn
April 1, 2019
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Chorus from "The Birds"

Derek Mahon
April 1, 2019
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D. and Dog

Lynne Potts
April 1, 2019
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Dissonance

Barry Goldensohn
April 1, 2019
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Elegy in October

Frannie Lindsay
April 1, 2019
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Ernest Lawrence

John Canaday
April 1, 2019
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Five Goldfinches

Karl Kirchwey
April 1, 2019
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How Much I Love You

Peter Balakian
April 1, 2019
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Midwinter Letter

Geoffrey Brock
April 1, 2019
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Revenge

Nathaniel Hutner
April 1, 2019
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Rough Plaster

Bernard O’Donoghue
April 1, 2019
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Something Forced

Benjamin S. Grossberg
April 1, 2019
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Storm Warning

Randy Blasing
April 1, 2019
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The Duchess of Malfi

Barry Goldensohn
April 1, 2019
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The Potato Plants

Jodie Hollander
April 1, 2019
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The Tablecloth

Giovanni Pascoli
and
Geoffrey Brock
April 1, 2019
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The Way I Like Best

James Longenbach
April 1, 2019
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The Wedgewood, the Watches

Benjamin S. Grossberg
April 1, 2019
Marble sarcophagus with the Triumph of Dionysos and the Seasons, ca. A.D. 260–270. Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Three Sarcophagi

Karl Kirchwey
April 1, 2019
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To My Daughter

Peter Cooley
April 1, 2019
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“As Are Right Fit”

Benjamin S. Grossberg
April 1, 2019

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