October 2016

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Volume 104, No. 4
October 2016
The Yale Review

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Nonfiction

On Wanting to Say [spoken slowly, by a poorly received writer to a poet]
William Gass

The Iliad, an Affair of Honor
Steven Smith

The Longest Poem in the English Language
James Longenbach

On Situating Sylvia Townsend Warner
Elizabeth Powers

Friendship, Time, and the Sabbath
Ronald Sharp

Fiction

Eye of Tylor
Gerald Majer

The Real Thing
Sheila Kohler

Poetry

Twister
Sunday Mirror
Stephen Edgar

The Bickers
Pastry Level
Mary Jo Salter

Letter to Laren
Wet Paint
Stanley Moss

The Right Fit for Sure
Richard Howard

The Last Page
Molly McQuade

Loss
Jean Ross Justice

Some Comfort in a Smaller Field of Vision
Leslie McGrath

The Show Opens Tomorrow
Wish
Deborah Garrison

Cézanne
Morri Creech

A New English Grammar
Jeff Dolven

Venasque
Mary Stewart Hammond

Reviews

Fiction in Review Anne Tyler
Greg Johnson

Poetry in Review James Lasdun, John Koethe
Stephen Burt

Recordings in Review The new traditionalists
Timothy Young

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