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When Metaphor Gets Literal

What my mother’s coma taught me about reading poems
Jennifer Grotz
April 3, 2024
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Yellow Band

A diagnosis alters a writer's relationship to his work
Steve Edwards
April 29, 2024
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The Critic as Friend

The challenge of reading generously
Merve Emre
June 10, 2024
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Critical Navel-Gazing

If criticism is in crisis, it’s not the critic’s problem
Namwali Serpell
June 10, 2024
The Moment

A Reviewer’s Life

The material constraints of writing criticism today
Christine Smallwood
June 10, 2024
Essays

I, Too, Am John Clare

Becoming a different kind of postcolonial writer
Amit Chaudhuri
June 10, 2024
A swirling pattern on green background
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Notes Upon Arrival

A diary of immigration and lost love
Bhanu Kapil
December 1, 2020
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
Essays

Myth and Anarchy

Matthew Spellberg
April 1, 2019
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Changing My Mind

On sources, revision, and order
Lydia Davis
January 1, 2020
Portrait of the author's mother
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Stereopticon

Twelve ways of looking at my mother
Emily Bernard
January 1, 2020