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A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
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Finding Proust’s Duchess

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

Eunice de Souza, a post-Independence Indian poet, explores the glitches in poetic voicing
Vidyan Ravinthiran
June 1, 2020
Blue and yellow illustration with two faces on either side of a hanging lamp
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No-No Man

Viet Thanh Nguyen’s nihilist masterpiece
Roy Scranton
June 28, 2021
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Machado de Assis’s Afterlives

The Brazilian novelist’s overlooked politics
Ratik Asokan
June 28, 2021
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Gender Wars

Two scholars excavate the origins of today’s trans backlash
Paisley Currah
March 4, 2024
From The Archives

Imagining Black Men: The Politics of Cultural Identity

Hazel V. Carby
July 1, 1992
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Stealing the Show

Why conservatives killed America’s federally funded theater
Charlie Tyson
June 10, 2024
Photo of book cover with author Martha Nussbaum
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Shipwreck with Spectator

Martha Nussbaum on Our Political Crisis
Feisal G. Mohamed
January 1, 2019
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
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On 'The Novel of Ferrara'

Fiction in review
Marta Figlerowicz
January 1, 2019
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
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Bondage and Freedom

Frederick Douglass
David W. Blight
October 1, 2018