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Volume 113, No. 2
Summer 2025
The Yale Review

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Cover: Y. Malik Jalal, SMEAR, 2024. Courtesy the artist and March Gallery, New York.

Table of Contents

Nonfiction

Crabs cooking in a pot of steaming water
Objects of Desire

Blue Crabs

Eating them the way God intended
Joseph Earl Thomas
June 9, 2025
A pair of weathered wood doors with peeling orange paint
Objects of Desire

Doorknobs

I never installed them. What doors could they have opened?
Katie Kitamura
June 9, 2025
Close-up of the toe of a fraying pink pointe shoe
Portfolio

Rhona Bitner

On Pointe
Eugenia Bell
June 9, 2025
Objects of Desire

Salomé

I gave my daughter the name my mother wanted—but who was her namesake?
Colombe Schneck
June 9, 2025
Abstract photo of bent-over nude
A Closer Read

Taking Offense

Reading through bad feeling
Garth Greenwell
June 9, 2025
Art

The Renegade Richard Foreman

How the downtown playwright reinvented theater
Jennifer Krasinski
June 9, 2025
A black-and-white photo of Patricia Highsmith smoking at her kitchen table in Tegna, Switzerland
Memoir

The Talented Ms. Highsmith

I worked for the novelist in her final months. I thought she wanted to kill me.
Elena Gosalvez Blanco
June 9, 2025
Books

When Fact-Checking Meant Something

A new novel captures a bygone era in New York journalism
Susan Choi
June 9, 2025

Fiction

Black-and-white sketch of two pairs of glasses, one atop the other
Fiction

Crossings

Bryan Washington
June 9, 2025
Fiction

Into the Light

Rachel Cusk
June 9, 2025
Black-and-white sketch of a folded pair of jeans
Fiction

Junk

Jenny Erpenbeck,
translated by Kurt Beals
June 9, 2025
Black-and-white sketch of a schoolgirl’s desk topped with comic books, a map, a pencil, a pen, a ruler, and a bottle of water
Fiction

The Edge of the Lake

Scholastique Mukasonga,
translated by Mark Polizzotti
June 9, 2025
Black-and-white illustration of a tray of food
Fiction

The Rabbit’s Foot

Sigrid Nunez
June 9, 2025
Black-and-white sketch of an open laptop
Fiction

The Shanda

Sarah Bernstein
June 9, 2025
Fiction

Welcome to the Club

Samanta Schweblin,
translated by Megan McDowell
June 9, 2025

Poetry

Poetry

Armenian Blues

Peter Balakian
June 9, 2025
Poetry

Cruising at the Plant Shop with Pink Eye

Tommy Pico
June 9, 2025
Poetry

For the Time Being

Philip Schultz
June 9, 2025
Poetry

Reading

Kathleen Ossip
June 9, 2025
Poetry

Regaining Unconsciousness

Harryette Mullen
June 9, 2025
Poetry

The Swan

Victoria Chang
June 9, 2025

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A Closer Read

Taking Offense

Reading through bad feeling
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Doorknobs

I never installed them. What doors could they have opened?
Katie Kitamura