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Volume 112, No. 1
Spring 2024
The Yale Review

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Cover: Emily Furr, Endless Nut, 2020.

Table of Contents

Nonfiction

Books

Gender Wars

Two scholars excavate the origins of today’s trans backlash
Paisley Currah
March 4, 2024
Essays

Heat Maps

Desire in the dark
Alex Marzano-Lesnevich
March 4, 2024
Essays

Lessons of the Line

Charles Simic and me
Dana Levin
March 4, 2024
Books

Renaissance Women

A new book celebrates—and sells short—Shakespeare’s sisters
Catherine Nicholson
March 4, 2024
Film

The Auteur of Fatherhood

How Steven Spielberg recast American masculinity
Phillip Maciak
March 4, 2024
Annotating the Archives

The Common Reader

Virginia Woolf in The Yale Review
Claire Messud
March 4, 2024
Objects of Desire

Jars with Well-Fitting Lids

Seeing loss more clearly
Catherine Lacey
February 14, 2024

Fiction

Fiction

A Mild Irreversible Form of Enlightenment

Anna DeForest
March 4, 2024
Fiction

Rosaura at Dawn

Daniel Saldaña París,
translated by Christina MacSweeney
March 4, 2024

Poetry

Poetry

Angel Jacks

Brian Blanchfield
March 4, 2024
Poetry

Banquo’s Ghost in Paterson

Martín Espada
March 4, 2024
Poetry

Catechumen

Kéchi Nne Nomu
March 4, 2024
Poetry

In Utero and After

Catherine Barnett
March 4, 2024
Poetry

Kaspar Hauser

Christian Wessels
March 4, 2024
Poetry

Litany for a Prolonged Dream

Joyce Mansour,
translated by C. Francis Fisher
March 4, 2024
Poetry

Memories Don’t Live Like People Do

Donauta Watson
March 4, 2024
Poetry

Nicholson Baker and I

Catherine Barnett
March 4, 2024
Poetry

The Search

Catherine Barnett
March 4, 2024
Poetry

Two Days Twelve Thousand Years Ago

Brian Blanchfield
March 4, 2024
Poetry

When Miriam Emerges from Ecstasy

Joyce Mansour,
translated by C. Francis Fisher
March 4, 2024
Poetry

Where

Rae Armantrout
March 4, 2024

Interviews

Interviews

Rachel Cusk

The novelist on the “feminine non-state of non-being”
Merve Emre
March 4, 2024

Portfolios

Portfolio

Mylar Balloons on Horse Island

Incidental objects at the Peabody Museum’s outpost
Claire Hungerford
March 4, 2024

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Interviews

Rachel Cusk

The novelist on the “feminine non-state of non-being”
Merve Emre
Books

Gender Wars

Two scholars excavate the origins of today’s trans backlash
Paisley Currah
Portfolio

Mylar Balloons on Horse Island

Incidental objects at the Peabody Museum’s outpost
Claire Hungerford