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Volume 111, No. 3
Fall 2023
The Yale Review

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Cover: Xi Li, Reflection (Red Tulips), 2022.

Table of Contents

Nonfiction

10 Ways Ms., Sassy, and Jezebel Changed Your Life!

How contradiction drove fifty years of feminist media
September 18, 2023

How Emily Wilson Reimagined Homer

Her boldly innovative translation of the Iliad is an epic for our time
September 18, 2023

In the Shallows

Why do public intellectuals condescend to their readers?
September 18, 2023

Lorraine Hansberry’s Queer Archive

The playwright’s lesbian fiction has gone largely unpublished. But she wanted you to read it.
September 18, 2023

The Choice Plot

Why are so many new novels obsessed with whether–and how–to have children?
September 18, 2023

Unfathomable Life

As a philosopher, I thought I understood risk. Then I tried to get pregnant.
September 18, 2023

Fiction

Naming Joan Custard

September 18, 2023

Paternal Leave

September 18, 2023

Winners

September 18, 2023

Poetry

A Long Time Ago Some King Died,

September 18, 2023

A Rolling Moth Etymology

September 18, 2023

Bass Notes

September 18, 2023

Press-Ons

September 18, 2023

Quick Recovery

September 18, 2023

Speedway Creamer

September 18, 2023

Temperatures

September 18, 2023

Testament

September 18, 2023

The Nature of Shelter

September 18, 2023

Theater Selfie

September 18, 2023

Timehill

September 18, 2023

To a Son

September 18, 2023

Twilight Sleep

September 18, 2023

Waves

September 18, 2023

Portfolios

Portfolio

Found Frame Works

Y. Malik Jalal’s wrought portraits of Black life
September 18, 2023

Naming Joan Custard

September 18, 2023

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The Choice Plot

Why are so many new novels obsessed with whether–and how–to have children?

How Emily Wilson Reimagined Homer

Her boldly innovative translation of the Iliad is an epic for our time

10 Ways Ms., Sassy, and Jezebel Changed Your Life!

How contradiction drove fifty years of feminist media