Summer 2021

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Volume 109, No. 2
Summer 2021
The Yale Review

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Cover: Collier Schorr, Radio, 2005.

Table of Contents

Nonfiction

How to Come Back to Life

On reaching middle age and carrying on
June 28, 2021

I Killed, I Died

Banter, self-destruction, and the poetry reading
June 28, 2021
Books

Machado de Assis’s Afterlives

The Brazilian novelist’s overlooked politics
June 28, 2021
Books

No-No Man

Viet Thanh Nguyen’s nihilist masterpiece
June 28, 2021

The Heart of Fiction

Storytelling, experience, and truth
June 28, 2021

The Subject of Pain

On Louise Bourgeois
June 28, 2021

What Space is For

The forking paths of memory and return
June 28, 2021

Picturing Catastrophe

The visual politics of racial reckoning
May 25, 2021

Fiction

The Glacier

June 28, 2021

Where They Always Meet

June 28, 2021

Subaqueous

June 16, 2021

Poetry

A Nacreous Woman

June 28, 2021

Air Disaster

June 28, 2021

Ascent

June 28, 2021

At Newport Beach

June 28, 2021

Bridge 14. Feb. 45

June 28, 2021

Cherry Picking Season

June 28, 2021

Divine Transformation

June 28, 2021

Fullness and Hunger

June 28, 2021

Glances

June 28, 2021

Race in the Mind

June 28, 2021

Satyr’s Flute

June 28, 2021

The Arrow Creek Fire

June 28, 2021

Interviews

Conversations

Discipline and Abolish

Writing, power, and mass incarceration
June 28, 2021

Portfolios

Portfolio

Terrains of the Imaginary

Finding escape in survey maps
June 28, 2021

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