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Volume 111, No. 3
Fall 2023
The Yale Review

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Table of Contents

Nonfiction

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

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

How Emily Wilson Reimagined Homer

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

In the Shallows

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

Lorraine Hansberry’s Queer Archive

The playwright’s lesbian fiction has gone largely unpublished.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

The Choice Plot

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

Unfathomable Life

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

Fiction

Naming Joan Custard

Leanne Shapton
and
Sheila Heti
September 18, 2023

Paternal Leave

Caroline Gioiosa
September 18, 2023
Black and white photograph of a basketball hoop shot upwards from below

Winners

Merritt Tierce
September 18, 2023

Poetry

A Long Time Ago Some King Died,

Heo Su-gyeong
translated by Soje
September 18, 2023

A Rolling Moth Etymology

Sylvia Legris
September 18, 2023

Bass Notes

Leopoldine Core
September 18, 2023

Press-Ons

Justin Jannise
September 18, 2023

Quick Recovery

Jake Fournier
September 18, 2023

Speedway Creamer

Jake Fournier
September 18, 2023

Temperatures

Leopoldine Core
September 18, 2023

Testament

Orlando Ricardo Menes
September 18, 2023

The Nature of Shelter

Brenda Shaughnessy
September 18, 2023

Theater Selfie

Gregory Pardlo
September 18, 2023

Timehill

Heo Su-gyeong
translated by Soje
September 18, 2023

To a Son

Sarah V. Schweig
September 18, 2023

Twilight Sleep

David Baker
September 18, 2023

Waves

Sarah V. Schweig
September 18, 2023

Portfolios

Portfolio

Found Frame Works

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

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The Choice Plot

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

How Emily Wilson Reimagined Homer

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

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

How contradiction drove fifty years of feminist media
Maggie Doherty