Fall 2025

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Volume 113, No. 3
Fall 2025
The Yale Review

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Cover: Edmund de Waal, landfall, 2024. Photo: Alzbeta Jaresova. Courtesy the artist.

Table of Contents

Nonfiction

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Essays

Cycladic Figurines and Their Mysteries

An excavation in fragments
Adina Hoffman
September 8, 2025
Books

Green, Lively, and Full of Decay

Why Claire-Louise Bennett’s epistolary style is the one for our times
Audrey Wollen
September 8, 2025
Essays

How Mrs. Dalloway Began

Slipping into Virginia Woolf’s sentences
Edmund de Waal
September 8, 2025
Black-and-white photo of an empty canal on the island of Murano in Venice, Italy
Essays

The Husband

My three trips to Venice, before and after marriage
Anne Enright
September 8, 2025
Books

The Richard Siken Effect

How Crush changed American poetry—and found a second life online
Richie Hofmann
September 8, 2025
A color photo of Mark Zuckerberg, Lauren Sánchez, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk at Trump’s second inauguration
Essays

Trump Is Only a Symptom

The crisis that America can’t change at the ballot box
Rana Dasgupta
September 8, 2025
Essays

What Is a Poetic Novel?

A newly translated manifesto
Hélène Bessette,
translated by Kate Briggs
September 8, 2025
Grayscale AI rendering of road-rage victim Christopher Pelkey
Essays

When AI Speaks for the Dead

A murder victim recently addressed a defendant with the help of AI. What are the limits of our new reality?
Patricia J. Williams
September 8, 2025

Fiction

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Fiction

New Year’s Story

Sigrid Nunez
September 8, 2025
Amber Grappy, Aliyah Odoffin, Bukky Bakray, and Shayde Sinclair in a production still from the play “Sleepova”
Drama

Sleepova

An annotated excerpt
Matilda Feyiṣayọ Ibini
September 8, 2025
Drama

The Kings and Queens of Notting Dale

An excerpt and introduction
Roy Williams
September 8, 2025

Poetry

Poetry

Dream Father

John Jeremiah Sullivan
September 8, 2025
Poetry

Fighting Words: Arrivals

Anthony Vahni Capildeo
September 8, 2025
Poetry

Fighting Words: Broken Heating

Anthony Vahni Capildeo
September 8, 2025
Poetry

Fighting Words: Peace and All Good

Anthony Vahni Capildeo
September 8, 2025
Poetry

Fighting Words: Tea Fever

Anthony Vahni Capildeo
September 8, 2025
Poetry

From “The World After Rain,” II: Twice Awake

Canisia Lubrin
September 8, 2025
Poetry

Older Shadows

Tongo Eisen-Martin
September 8, 2025
Poetry

Suggesting a Psyche

Tongo Eisen-Martin
September 8, 2025
Poetry

Threnody 5: Peppermint Tea and Sweet Biscuit

Lorna Goodison
September 8, 2025
Poetry

Tossed About the Room

Tongo Eisen-Martin
September 8, 2025
Poetry

You Too

John Jeremiah Sullivan
September 8, 2025

Interviews

Interviews

Anthony Vahni Capildeo

The poet on the power of a lyric sequence
September 8, 2025

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Essays

When AI Speaks for the Dead

A murder victim recently addressed a defendant with the help of AI. What are the limits of our new reality?
Patricia J. Williams
Essays

The Husband

My three trips to Venice, before and after marriage
Anne Enright
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Trump Is Only a Symptom

The crisis that America can’t change at the ballot box
Rana Dasgupta