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Volume 111, No. 2
Summer 2023
The Yale Review

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Cover: Roman Cochet, Enormous beacon of light and planet-size particles, 2019.

Table of Contents

Nonfiction

Abstraction and Nonsense

The real in fiction
June 12, 2023

Ahead of Time

On poetry and mourning
June 12, 2023

James Baldwin in Turkey

How Istanbul changed his career—and his life
June 12, 2023

New York Anabasis

In praise of the return to the surface
June 12, 2023

Notes on Affirmation

SFFA v. Harvard and the quest for acceptance
June 12, 2023

Ordinary Allurements

Christina Sharpe’s reading lessons
June 12, 2023

The Consolations of Failure

Two new books look at what failing can—and cannot—teach us
June 12, 2023

This Part of Our Lives Is Over

Sending my daughter to Japan
June 12, 2023

Fiction

Cumulus

June 12, 2023

The Rally

June 12, 2023

Poetry

All Souls

June 12, 2023

Becoming Mary

June 12, 2023

Late Winter After Leaving My Country

June 12, 2023

Like

June 12, 2023

Lord I Thought at Least You’d Be Here

June 12, 2023

Self-Portrait with Friend

June 12, 2023

The Museum of Mary

June 12, 2023

With Each Bird Flying, Time Is Passing

June 12, 2023

Interviews

Raven Leilani

On writing black interiority
June 12, 2023

Portfolios

Portfolio

New Directions

David Korty’s next chapter
June 12, 2023

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