July 2009

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Volume 97, No. 3
July 2009
The Yale Review

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F E A T U R E S

Kingsley and Kinsley at Swansea
Alastair Fowler

Censorship and Its Seasons: Madrid, 1615
Rolena Adorno

Bunk Johnson’s Faraway Blues
Russell Fraser

How My Mother Fashioned a Beautiful Life
Paula Marantz Cohen

J. M. Coetzee and the Scandal of Death
Victor Brombert

F I C T I O N

Transference
Jean McGarry

Belinda
Amity Gaige

P O E T R Y

San Francisco Grand Ball (Airport Marriott)
Alan Williamson

To a Book in a Window
Debora Greger

Waking Hungover in a Field, 1979
Eric Pankey

Alas, the News
Arthur Vogelsang

Grim, Grimmer, Grimmest
Ex-Tarzan Dies at Age 100
Turner Cassity

Sisyphus Bee
Robert Wrigley

The Decision
Timothy Liu

Chiaroscuro
Pilgrim in San Giorgio
Richard Kenney

The View from Here
Tom Healy

Barrel Roll
Austin Segrest

Twelve Bar Blues
Stefanie Wortman

R E V I E W S

The Haunting of Michael Chabon
Karen Weisman

Why Be Good?
The Adventures of Pinocchio
James Guida

Fiction in Review
Short Story Collections
Alice Mattison

Poetry in Review
Frank Bidart’s Rituals
Stephen Yenser

Recordings in Review
Jean-Baptiste Lully Operas
Dewey Faulkner

Film in Review
Out of Asia: Or, How We Shot the War
Bert Cardullo

Table of Contents

Poetry

The Decision

Timothy Liu
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