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Nonfiction

Russian Winter Journal, February–March 1967

Lawrence Ferlinghetti 

All that poetic bullshit about setting out in search of My Mount Analogue + the door to the invisible visible … all nothing. Nothing but sick me + my body in this bare room.

Against Abdicating Power to Big Tech

Claire Bond Potter 

We can’t rely on Big Tech to reign over online speech.

My Summer of Julien Gracq

Seth Lerer 

Reading a French novelist’s examination of liminal space in a plague year

On the Need for Aesthetic Wildness

Maria Tumarkin 

Feminism, identity, and the willingness to be defeated.

Unbothered

Namwali Serpell 

American violence and the grace of black nonchalance.

Interviews

The Body in Verse

Bhanu Kapil and Jonah Mixon-Webster


A dialogue on literary somatics.

Finding a Literary Inheritance

Alexander Chee, Julia Cho, Susan Choi, and Cathy Park Hong


Four Korean American writers on jeong, language, and the elusiveness of home.

The Merits of Imperfection

Sarah Shun-lien Bynum and Yiyun Li


Why literature’s best is usually deeply flawed.

Signal and Noise

Aleshea Harris and Douglas Kearney


A dialogue on presencing Blackness.

Unethical Reading and the Limits of Empathy

Namwali Serpell and Maria Tumarkin


Two writers on the ethics of pen and paper.

Poetry

Over and Above

Jennifer Grotz

 

Because I didn’t want it to end, 
and because I was all alone again,
because in those seasons attention 
was my only form of prayer, 
I attended the summer rain. 

I dreamt of you

Iman Mersal, translated by Robyn Creswell

 

Where did he go?

Instead of house slippers, I stuffed my feet into your heavy shoes (and they really were yours).

For S., At The Boat Pond

Jean Valentine

 

From The Yale Review, Spring 1967.

Fiction

The Reason Why

Yiyun Li  

In possessing us, he granted us possessions: unexperienced desires and wonderments, unwarranted griefs and disillusions.

You: A Short Play

Julia Cho  

A one-person show, you in dialogue with yourself.

On Sugarland: A Play

Aleshea Harris  

Aleshea Harris presents a new play and details the process that went into creating it.

Pandemic Files

Surviving COVID-19

Slavenka Drakulic 

Waking up after six days on a ventilator in Stockholm.

Reviews

Act Your Age

Benjamin Naddaff-Hafrey

Swapping bodies, swapping ages, and re-inventing youth.

Interview

Cathy Park Hong on the Major Weight of Minor Feelings

The poet and essayist discusses Asian American consciousness, the myth of meritocracy, and the shifting boundaries of whiteness.

TYR Redux

Arendt: An Arguable Elegy

“Please, Richard, never speak of it –
don’t speak of it again.”

Richard Howard
The Yale Review, June 2008.

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