Our second collaborative issue with the Windham Campbell prizes features new poems, stories, and essays by this year's eight prizewinners, as well as conversations on poetry in an age of anxiety, how the pandemic changed theater, the craft of translation, and much more.
Winter 2021

Volume 109, No. 4
Winter 2021
The Yale Review
Table of Contents
Nonfiction
Essays
Discovering Hélène Bessette
The innovative fiction of a forgotten French writer
Kate Briggs
December 1, 2021
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
Fiction
Poetry
Interviews
Conversations
Longer Than the Longest Rope
A conversation mediated by art
Canisia Lubrin,
Dionne Brand
December 1, 2021
Conversations
How the Pandemic Changed Theater
Michael R. Jackson,
Lileana Blain-Cruz
December 1, 2021
Conversations
Nathan Alan Davis and Abe Koogler on Finding One’s Voice
Nathan Alan Davis,
Abe Koogler
December 1, 2021
Conversations
Renee Gladman and Kate Briggs Talk Translation and Form
Kate Briggs,
Renee Gladman
December 1, 2021
Interviews
Vivian Gornick
The acclaimed essayist looks back on her career
Meghan O’Rourke
December 1, 2021