Visiting Writers

A selection of pieces by the visiting writers for The Yale Review Festival.

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Visiting Writers

Installation of found hand mirrors arranged in an oval on a wall.
Essays

Race Off

The fantasy of race transformation
Namwali Serpell
September 27, 2021
Graphic with book pages and blue designs of windows and cats
Essays

The Heart of Fiction

Storytelling, experience, and truth
Hernan Diaz
June 28, 2021
The activist Gloria Richardson walking past National Guardsmen during a civil rights march in Cambridge
Essays

Unbothered

The grace of black nonchalance
Namwali Serpell
December 1, 2020
A crowd of statues. Robert Dimov / Creative Commons
Pandemic Files

Do You Know Alex Oreille

Katie Kitamura
June 1, 2020
A portrait of poet Aria Aber in sunlight
Interviews

Aria Aber on the Poetry of Exile

Writing what can't be named
Meghan O’Rourke
February 4, 2020
Author Photo
Interviews

Ben Lerner on Writing and Magic Pills

The poet and novelist goes home
Catherine Barnett
January 1, 2020
Chimneys in snow. Anonymous / Creative Commons.
Poetry

First Snow

Aria Aber
January 1, 2020
Susan Sontag, New York, February 2, 1978. Photograph by Richard Avedon. ©The Richard Avedon Foundation.
Books

Furious Permissions

For Susan Sontag, style was nourishment
Brian Dillon
January 1, 2020
Joseph De Martini, Docks on Sunday, ca. 1941, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Poetry

Hades

Aria Aber
January 1, 2020
A muddy scene at Bellingshausen, a Russian Antarctic base on King George Island. Loranchet / Creative Commons.
Poetry

Nostos

Aria Aber
January 1, 2020