Fall 2020

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Volume 108, No. 3
Fall 2020
The Yale Review

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Cover: Africanus Okokon, everywhere you go, 2019.

Table of Contents

Nonfiction

Everything Bright Is Something Burned

How to mourn a planet
September 1, 2020

Lovecraft and Me

How cosmic horror gave me hope
September 1, 2020

My Silent Childhood

I didn’t know my name until I went to kindergarten. Then I became a writer.
September 1, 2020

Soup Can; or, On Hospitality

Anything can become a weapon in America, especially against those who dare to cross the color line
September 1, 2020

Fiction

Ana and the Water

September 1, 2020

Birthday

What my dad told me
September 1, 2020

Blanca

September 1, 2020

So Long

September 1, 2020

The Blessing of Kali

September 1, 2020

The Queen of Bark and Darkness

September 1, 2020

Poetry

Celebration

September 23, 2020

After Death

September 1, 2020

An Account

September 1, 2020

As the Rain Comes Down Harder

September 1, 2020

Boethius’ Body

September 1, 2020

Elevator Closed, Elevator Open

September 1, 2020

Here & There

September 1, 2020

If the Cure for AIDS,

September 1, 2020

Midges

September 1, 2020

Mushmouf’s Maybe-Crown

September 1, 2020

October

September 1, 2020

Photograph

September 1, 2020

Rat Among the Pines

September 1, 2020

Song

September 1, 2020

The Southern Hemisphere

September 1, 2020

The Twenty-First Century

September 1, 2020

Yesterday I Saw a Dog at the Tideline

September 1, 2020

Portfolios

Portfolio

A Forger’s Art

The photographer who saved the lives of 14,000 Jews
September 1, 2020

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