Fall 2024

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Volume 112, No. 3
Fall 2024
The Yale Review

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Cover image: Teju Cole, Blind Spot, Palm Beach, 2016. Courtesy the artist.

Table of Contents

Nonfiction

Film

Chantal Akerman’s Elusive Interiors

What the filmmaker’s portrayal of women reveals—and withholds
Emily LaBarge
September 9, 2024
Art

How Mike Kelley Became Himself

The artist’s search for subcultural America
Jonathan Griffin
September 9, 2024
Books

Is Blasphemy Illiberal?

Salman Rushdie’s thoroughly modern controversies
Len Gutkin
September 9, 2024
Objects of Desire

Richard Pryor

A fiction
Hilton Als
September 9, 2024
Essays

The Path to Playwright

Discovering my literary hero in an unlikely place
Sonya Kelly
September 9, 2024
Essays

The Shapes of Grief

Witnessing the unbearable
Christina Sharpe
September 9, 2024
Objects of Desire

Vintage Merch

Buying someone else’s history
Hanif Abdurraqib
September 9, 2024
Books

Writing in Pictures

Richard Scarry and the art of children’s literature
Chris Ware
September 9, 2024

Fiction

Fiction

Mister Durand

An excerpt from a novel in progress
Deirdre Madden
September 9, 2024
Fiction

Sanctuary

Danielle McLaughlin
September 9, 2024
Drama

The Hundred Flowers Project

An excerpt and annotation
September 9, 2024
Fiction

This Is What I Like

Kathryn Scanlan
September 9, 2024

Poetry

Poetry

A Prayer to Light

Kwame Dawes
September 9, 2024
Poetry

Baby Blues

Natalie Scenters-Zapico
September 9, 2024
Poetry

Envy

Kwame Dawes
September 9, 2024
Poetry

Falso Cognato

Natalie Scenters-Zapico
September 9, 2024
Poetry

Fathead

Ishion Hutchinson
September 9, 2024
Poetry

Flip Screen

Jen Hadfield
September 9, 2024
Poetry

Hill Mouse

Jen Hadfield
September 9, 2024
Poetry

Rising Moons in the Needles of Trees Bring Me Water

Jonah Mixon-Webster
September 9, 2024
Poetry

The All of You X cept

An excerpt
m. nourbeSe philip
September 9, 2024
Poetry

The Poets Awoke

m. nourbeSe philip
September 9, 2024
Poetry

There Are More Ways to Show Devotion

Hanif Abdurraqib
September 9, 2024
Poetry

Wild Garlic

Jen Hadfield
September 9, 2024

Interviews

Conversations

Hannah Proctor and Astra Taylor

Solidarity and burnout in an election year
September 9, 2024

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Essays

The Shapes of Grief

Witnessing the unbearable
Christina Sharpe
Objects of Desire

Vintage Merch

Buying someone else’s history
Hanif Abdurraqib
Books

Writing in Pictures

Richard Scarry and the art of children’s literature
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