Winter 2020

Volume 108, No. 4
Winter 2020
The Yale Review
Table of Contents
Nonfiction
Essays
The Anti-Extinction Engine
Langston Hughes and my friend, the apocalypse actuary
Anne Boyer
December 1, 2020
Portfolio
The Cultural Construction of Identity
The knotty interrelations between text and image
Lorraine O’Grady
December 1, 2020
Essays
Wildness
Feminism, identity, and the willingness to be defeated
Maria Tumarkin
December 1, 2020
Fiction
Poetry
Interviews
Conversations
Finding a Literary Inheritance
Four Korean American writers on jeong and the elusiveness of home
Alexander Chee,
Julia Cho,
Susan Choi,
Cathy Park Hong
December 1, 2020
Conversations
Signal and Noise
A dialogue on presencing Blackness
Aleshea Harris,
Douglas Kearney
December 1, 2020
Conversations
The Body in Verse
A dialogue on literary somatics
Bhanu Kapil,
Jonah Mixon-Webster
December 1, 2020
Conversations
The Merits of Imperfection
Why literature’s best is usually deeply flawed
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum,
Yiyun Li
December 1, 2020
Conversations
The Limits of Empathy
Two writers on the ethics of pen and paper
Namwali Serpell,
Maria Tumarkin
December 1, 2020