Spring 2021

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Volume 109, No. 1
Spring 2021
The Yale Review

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Cover: Robin Myers, 14 Mouths, 2016.

Table of Contents

Nonfiction

And Finally I'll Say Goodbye

Remembering my mother, Jean Valentine
May 19, 2021
Books

Incalculable Loss

How writing can help make sense of grief
May 19, 2021

It Me

The trouble with memes
May 19, 2021
Letters

Merrill's Last Letters

Writing to the end
May 19, 2021
The Moment

On Rereading

Remaking the world
May 19, 2021

My Year of Stalking Rachel

The quest to see without being seen
May 19, 2021

The Wrong Daddy

Morrissey and the cult of the wounded white male
May 19, 2021

There I Almost Am

On envy and twinship
May 19, 2021

Fiction

Les Comètes

The inner lives of stars
May 19, 2021

Massachusetts

May 19, 2021

Some Agonies Over and Over

May 19, 2021

Poetry

"Mulatto" :: "Quadroon"

May 19, 2021

Desire

May 19, 2021

Everyone's Poem

May 19, 2021

Hinge

May 19, 2021

Landing

May 19, 2021

Maps of States

May 19, 2021

Patronage

May 19, 2021

Ten Lyric Pieces

May 19, 2021

Thirty-Six Silos

May 19, 2021

Thirty-Third Year

May 19, 2021

Portfolios

Portfolio

Exile and Memory

Reimagining Iran through 200-year-old portraits
May 19, 2021

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