July 2019

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Volume 107, No. 3
July 2019
The Yale Review

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Table of Contents

Nonfiction

Music

From Films to Operas

New interpretations of It's a Wonderful Life, The Exterminating Angel, and more
July 1, 2019

In the Time That Remains

Reflections on the poetry of Derek Mahon
July 1, 2019

Listening to the Provinces

A painter’s letters home
July 1, 2019
Film

On "Roma"

A review of Alfonso Cuarón's film
July 1, 2019

One Man’s Modernism

J. R. R. Tolkien
July 1, 2019
Books

The Fiction of Uwe Johnson

A review of Anniversaries: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl
July 1, 2019
Film

The Films of Alice Rohrwacher

A review of the director's work in Italian cinema
July 1, 2019

The Virtues and Vices of Speech

On truthfulness, deception, flattery, and more
July 1, 2019

The Wild Man Within

Peter Matthiessen’s Bigfoot
July 1, 2019

Criticism

The Poetry of Nick Laird

A review of Feel Free
July 1, 2019

Fiction

Man Overboard

July 1, 2019

Poetry

“It’s Complicated”

July 1, 2019

Afterlife

July 1, 2019

Arcade

July 1, 2019

Beauty

July 1, 2019

Clay

July 1, 2019

Deep Song

July 1, 2019

Easier Done

July 1, 2019

Finalists

July 1, 2019

Five Prose Poems

July 1, 2019

Four Days

July 1, 2019

Loose Talk

July 1, 2019

My Enemy

July 1, 2019

Oracle

July 1, 2019

Pax

July 1, 2019

Prodigal

July 1, 2019

Ring

July 1, 2019

Sestina

July 1, 2019

Shadow

July 1, 2019

Summer Visitation

July 1, 2019

Sunday with George

July 1, 2019

The Night’s Cascade

July 1, 2019

The Reef

July 1, 2019

The Southwest Part of the Truth

July 1, 2019

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