June 2018

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Volume 106, No. 3
June 2018
The Yale Review

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Table of Contents

Nonfiction

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Essays

Bengali Baboo

Deborah Baker
July 1, 2018
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Books

Finding Proust’s Duchess

Clear-sighted literary commentary, and a guilty-pleasure read
Hollie Harder
July 1, 2018
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Essays

Great Aunt Dorothea Mendelssohn

or, Foam on the wave
Lily Tuck
July 1, 2018
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Essays

In the Tank

George Jackson and prison as a system of terror
Tom Sleigh
July 1, 2018
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Books

On "The Mars Room"

Fiction in Review
Abigail Deutsch
July 1, 2018
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Music

On The New York Philharmonic’s 175th Anniversary

Recordings in Review
Dewey Faulkner
July 1, 2018
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Film

Springes to Catch Woodcocks

On Phantom Thread
Paul Franz
July 1, 2018
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Essays

Unliving Hands

Lyric Distance in Owen’s “Anthem for Doomed Youth”
Adam Keller
July 1, 2018
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Criticism

Wrestling with Machado

Ilan Stavans
July 1, 2018

Criticism

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Books

On "Poet in Spain: Federico García Lorca"

Poetry in Review
Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert
July 1, 2018

Fiction

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Fiction

Eternal Return

Sergio Troncoso
July 1, 2018
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Fiction

Four Japanese Stories

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa,
translated by Ryan C. K. Choi
July 1, 2018
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Fiction

Plant of Contradictions

Puerto Rico
Tiphanie Yanique
July 1, 2018
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Fiction

Pretty Things

Virginie Despentes
and
Emma Ramadan
July 1, 2018

Poetry

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Poetry

Cold Heaven

Elisabeth Murawski
July 1, 2018
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Poetry

Current

Susan Barba
July 1, 2018
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Poetry

Echo Lake

Nicholas Friedman
July 1, 2018
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Poetry

Flirt

Christina Pugh
July 1, 2018
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Poetry

His Shirt

John Skoyles
July 1, 2018
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Poetry

Living Room

Arthur Vogelsang
July 1, 2018
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Poetry

Mansplaining Oracle

Caki Wilkinson
July 1, 2018
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Poetry

On Turning Ninety

Edmund Keeley
July 1, 2018
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Poetry

Prospects from the Palisades

July 1, 2018
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Poetry

Self-Driving

Laura Marris
July 1, 2018
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Poetry

Still Life, Mouth of the Vistula

Daniel Bourne
July 1, 2018
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Poetry

The Completion of Shadows

G. C. Waldrep
July 1, 2018
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Poetry

The Light in the Marsh Grass

Jeffrey Harrison
July 1, 2018
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Poetry

The Staircase

Christina Pugh
July 1, 2018
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Poetry

The Way You Look Tonight

Peter Cameron
July 1, 2018
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Poetry

To the Embalmers

G. C. Waldrep
July 1, 2018
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Poetry

Unconscious Ode

Ann Keniston
July 1, 2018
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Poetry

Watch

Elisabeth Murawski
July 1, 2018
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Poetry

Wide Margin Love Poem

Susan Barba
July 1, 2018

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