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Volume 113, No. 1
Spring 2025
The Yale Review

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Cover: Francesca Gabbiani, Mutation L, 2023. Courtesy the artist and Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles.

Table of Contents

Nonfiction

Books

Vanity Fair’s Heyday

I was once paid six figures to write an article—now what?
Bryan Burrough
March 14, 2025
Portfolio

“Channel, 2019–24”

Capturing Los Angeles in crisis
Sasha Rudensky
March 11, 2025
Essays

A Unified Theory of the Handbag

Was an accessory the secret to evolution?
Audrey Wollen
March 11, 2025
Art

Finding the Real in Photorealism

Do we want art to transform our lives?
Jonathan Griffin
March 11, 2025
Objects of Desire

My Mother’s Ashtray

When I lost her, I lost a world
Jonathan Lethem
March 11, 2025
The Moment

Reading During a Genocide

What Etel Adnan's novel taught me
Isabella Hammad
March 11, 2025
Memoir

Scenes from Childhood

The unseen world of the great playwright
Adrienne Kennedy
March 11, 2025
Essays

The Broken Cadillac

When you wish you could refuse an inheritance
Jennifer Stock
March 11, 2025
Essays

The Comforts of Geological Time

How to grieve when you don’t know how
Edmée Lepercq
March 11, 2025
Books

Zora Neale Hurston’s Rediscovered Novel

A new publication obscures the canonical writer
Tiana Reid
March 11, 2025

Fiction

Fiction

Hangman

Samantha Hunt
March 11, 2025
Nighttime view of a lit apartment window on rue de Douai in Paris. It looks in on a domestic scene and a woman reclining.
Fiction

Life Elsewhere

Guadalupe Nettel,
translated by Rosalind Harvey
March 11, 2025

Poetry

Poetry

A Year

Sam Bailey
March 11, 2025
Poetry

After You

Sam Bailey
March 11, 2025
Poetry

Enter Military Songs

Dalia Taha,
translated by Sara Elkamel
March 11, 2025
Poetry

Enter Silence

Dalia Taha,
translated by Sara Elkamel
March 11, 2025
Poetry

Enter Weapons Factories

Dalia Taha,
translated by Sara Elkamel
March 11, 2025
Poetry

momoy

Julian Talamantez Brolaski
March 11, 2025
Poetry

On a Cold Night, Deciding Should I Call You

Sam Bailey
March 11, 2025
Poetry

The Cardinal

Zoey Brookshire
March 11, 2025
Graphic of overlapping T’s in red and pink on a brown background
Poetry

The Fourth Talking Scroll

Courtney Bush
March 11, 2025

Folios

Folio

Instagram

Is life online real?
Jesse Damiani
March 11, 2025
Folio

LSD

Are hallucinations real?
Abou Farman
March 11, 2025
Folio

Michael Crichton

Is celebrity real?
Joanna Radin
March 11, 2025
Folio

Paul

Is the self real?
Sheila Heti
March 11, 2025
Folio

Storytelling

Is narrative real?
Mona Oraby
March 11, 2025

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Vanity Fair’s Heyday

I was once paid six figures to write an article—now what?
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Memoir

Scenes from Childhood

The unseen world of the great playwright
Adrienne Kennedy
Objects of Desire

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When I lost her, I lost a world
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