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

Chantal Akerman’s Elusive Interiors

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

How Mike Kelley Became Himself

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

Is Blasphemy Illiberal?

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

Richard Pryor

A fiction
Hilton Als
September 9, 2024

The Path to Playwright

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

The Shapes of Grief

Witnessing the unbearable
Christina Sharpe
September 9, 2024

Vintage Merch

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

Writing in Pictures

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

Fiction

Mister Durand

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

Sanctuary

Danielle McLaughlin
September 9, 2024
Drama

The Hundred Flowers Project

An excerpt and annotation
September 9, 2024

This Is What I Like

Kathryn Scanlan
September 9, 2024

Poetry

A Prayer to Light

Kwame Dawes
September 9, 2024

Baby Blues

Natalie Scenters-Zapico
September 9, 2024

Envy

Kwame Dawes
September 9, 2024

Falso Cognato

Natalie Scenters-Zapico
September 9, 2024

Fathead

Ishion Hutchinson
September 9, 2024

Flip Screen

Jen Hadfield
September 9, 2024

Hill Mouse

Jen Hadfield
September 9, 2024

The All of You X cept

An excerpt
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September 9, 2024

The Poets Awoke

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September 9, 2024

There Are More Ways to Show Devotion

Hanif Abdurraqib
September 9, 2024

Wild Garlic

Jen Hadfield
September 9, 2024

Interviews

Hannah Proctor and Astra Taylor

Solidarity and burnout in an election year
September 9, 2024

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The Shapes of Grief

Witnessing the unbearable
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Vintage Merch

Buying someone else’s history
Hanif Abdurraqib

Writing in Pictures

Richard Scarry and the art of children’s literature
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