Winter 2025

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Volume 113, No. 4
Winter 2025
The Yale Review

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Cover: Lucien Freud, Still Life with Green Lemon, 1947. © The Lucian Freud Archive. All Rights Reserved 2025 / Bridgeman Images.

Table of Contents

Nonfiction

Loveseat

I threw it away. Then I wanted it back.
December 15, 2025

Searching for Seamus Heaney

What I found when I resolved to read him
December 15, 2025

Terrence Malick’s Disciples

Why the auteur is the most influential director in Hollywood
December 15, 2025

What Happened When I Began to Speak Welsh

By learning my family's language, I hoped to join their conversation.
December 15, 2025

When Does a Divorce Begin?

Most people think of it as failure. For me it was an achievement.
December 15, 2025

The Unfolding of Time in Paint

My encounters with Joan Mitchell's panels
December 11, 2025

Thomas Pynchon Is Angry

In Shadow Ticket, the novelist takes on America’s indifference to history
October 27, 2025

Fiction

What Are We Doing, What Have We Done

December 15, 2025

Poetry

A Peer Among Friends

December 15, 2025

from −K

December 15, 2025

House

December 15, 2025

In the Mood for Love

December 15, 2025

Just Us

December 15, 2025

Memoir

December 15, 2025

Middle Vision

December 15, 2025

Parents

December 15, 2025

Sleep Training

December 15, 2025

The Plumber

December 15, 2025

The Stranger

December 15, 2025

Folios

A Peer Among Friends

December 15, 2025

from −K

December 15, 2025

House

December 15, 2025

In the Mood for Love

December 15, 2025

Just Us

December 15, 2025

Memoir

December 15, 2025

Middle Vision

December 15, 2025

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When Does a Divorce Begin?

Most people think of it as failure. For me it was an achievement.


The Unfolding of Time in Paint

My encounters with Joan Mitchell's panels