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A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
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Perfect

Adrienne Chung
December 22, 2021
Graphic with a van and mattress. Illustration by Laura Padilla Castellanos
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In 1987

Strummer Hoffston
December 15, 2021
Graphic with a circle filled with targets and a red reflection on water. Illustration by Laura Padilla Castellanos
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Tachistoscope

Madeleine Mori
December 8, 2021
Purple graphic with tree branches reflected on table by Tung Chau
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DECEMBER 1

Lindsay Turner
December 1, 2021
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Elegy for Oneida Creek

Emma Aylor
November 24, 2021
Painting of two pandas at a dining table by Abigail Frankfurt
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Ringmaster

Abigail Frankfurt
November 17, 2021
Graphic by Jocelyn Spaar.
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Plum Madrigal

Lisa Russ Spaar
November 10, 2021
Pink graphic with lions and wardrobes by Laura Padilla Castellanos.
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Children of Lions

Eugenia Leigh
November 3, 2021
Graphic with hands and mayflies by Laura Padilla Castellanos.
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Pale Evening Dun

Rob Schlegel
October 27, 2021
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Teletherapy

Brian Tierney
October 20, 2021