January 2019

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Volume 107, No. 1
January 2019
The Yale Review

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Nonfiction

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Essays

Natural and Spiritual Freedom

Martin Hägglund
January 1, 2019
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Essays

Prison Term

Peter Brooks
January 1, 2019
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Essays

Still, Image

Excerpts from In Remembrance of Things Past
Gerard Malanga
January 1, 2019
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Criticism

The Angelus

Nan Z. Da
January 1, 2019
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Essays

What You Have Heard Is True

Remembering the fight for Salvadoran freedom
Carolyn Forché
January 1, 2019
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Books

“They Don’t Know It, but We’re Integrated”

Thomas Pynchon’s “The Secret Integration” and The Saturday Evening Post
Terry Reilly
January 1, 2019

Criticism

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Film

Children of Thanos

Film in review
Roy Scranton
January 1, 2019
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Books

Don Paterson on Poetics

Poetry in review
Stephen Yenser
January 1, 2019
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Books

On 'The Novel of Ferrara'

Fiction in review
Marta Figlerowicz
January 1, 2019
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Art

On Andy Warhol

Art in review
Richard Deming
January 1, 2019
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Books

Shipwreck with Spectator

Martha Nussbaum on Our Political Crisis
Feisal G. Mohamed
January 1, 2019
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Music

The Last Valkyrie

Music in review
Dewey Faulkner
January 1, 2019

Fiction

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Fiction

Alger, le cri

Samir Toumi
translated by Alice Kaplan
January 1, 2019
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Fiction

Mr. Crime and Punishment and War and Peace

Gish Jen
January 1, 2019

Poetry

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Poetry

After Seeing the Irish Modern Dance Theatre’s Lear

Catherine Staples
January 1, 2019
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Poetry

Animal Kingdom

Amy Roa
January 1, 2019
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Poetry

As Far As You Know

A. F. Moritz
January 1, 2019
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Poetry

Ballet and Sawhorse

Elizabeth Smither
January 1, 2019
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Poetry

Beret

Natania Rosenfeld
January 1, 2019
Poetry

California Christmas

Noah Warren
January 1, 2019
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Poetry

Hurricane

Catherine Staples
January 1, 2019
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Poetry

In a Hurry

Catherine Staples
January 1, 2019
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Poetry

Middle of the Movie

Andrew Saviano
January 1, 2019
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Poetry

Nick

Natania Rosenfeld
January 1, 2019
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Poetry

On Sundays

Willie Perdomo
January 1, 2019
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Poetry

The Nest in Winter

Kimiko Hahn
January 1, 2019
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Poetry

Unbudgably Yours

Samuel Hazo
January 1, 2019
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Poetry

Verkeerdekraal

C. J. Driver
January 1, 2019
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Poetry

What Feeds on Want

John Rybicki
January 1, 2019
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Poetry

“The Moon Has Set”

John Kinsella
January 1, 2019

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