Winter 2021

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Volume 109, No. 4
Winter 2021
The Yale Review

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Cover: Renee Gladman, Untitled, wind and pink, 2021.

Table of Contents

Nonfiction

Phillip James Brannon performing a scene from Nat Turner in Jerusalem
Drama

Revising Nat Turner

The afterlives of first drafts
Nathan Alan Davis
December 1, 2021
Essays

Discovering Hélène Bessette

The innovative fiction of a forgotten French writer
Kate Briggs
December 1, 2021
An excerpt from Vivian Gornick’s Fierce Attachments on the cover of Village Voice.
Essays

The Power of Testimony

Why personal narrative has displaced fiction
Vivian Gornick
December 1, 2021
Windham Campbell Prizes

A note from the director of the Windham Campbell prizes

Michael Kelleher
December 1, 2021
The cast of A Strange Loop singing and dancing.
Essays

Becoming a Playwright

The sources of my storytelling
Michael R. Jackson
November 10, 2021

Fiction

Fiction

Lili Is Crying

Kate Briggs
and
Hélène Bessette
December 1, 2021
Fiction

People in the Grasses

Renee Gladman
December 1, 2021
Fiction

small life

Dionne Brand
December 1, 2021
Fiction

The Boy, the Girls, the Dog, and I Was There

Canisia Lubrin
December 1, 2021

Poetry

Poetry

1,723 Miles Away from Home

Natalie Scenters-Zapico
December 1, 2021
Poetry

The Aeryon R80D Skyraider

Natalie Scenters-Zapico
December 1, 2021
Poetry

This That We Have

Canisia Lubrin
December 1, 2021

Interviews

Conversations

Longer Than the Longest Rope

A conversation mediated by art
Canisia Lubrin
and
Dionne Brand
December 1, 2021
Conversations

How the Pandemic Changed Theater

Michael R. Jackson
and
Lileana Blain-Cruz
December 1, 2021
Conversations

Natalie Scenters-Zapico and Dana Levin

Two poets on writing and anxiety
Natalie Scenters-Zapico
and
Dana Levin
December 1, 2021
Conversations

Nathan Alan Davis and Abe Koogler on Finding One’s Voice

Nathan Alan Davis
and
Abe Koogler
December 1, 2021
Conversations

Renee Gladman and Kate Briggs Talk Translation and Form

Kate Briggs
and
Renee Gladman
December 1, 2021
Interviews

Vivian Gornick

The acclaimed essayist looks back on her career
Meghan O’Rourke
December 1, 2021

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The acclaimed essayist looks back on her career
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Why personal narrative has displaced fiction
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Essays

Becoming a Playwright

The sources of my storytelling
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