Spring 1987

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Volume 76, No. 3
Spring 1987
The Yale Review

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Nonfiction

A Courier for Jacques Lacan

The psychoanalyst invited me for lunch at his Parisian apartment—and drew me into his orbit
Eileen Simpson
April 1, 1987

A. Philip Randolph

Remembering the civil rights leader and my friend of over four decades
Bayard Rustin
April 1, 1987
Polaroid of Francine du Plessix Gray

Charles Olson and an American Place

Francine du Plessix Gray
April 1, 1987

E. M. Forster

The novelist valued friendship above all else
Robert Giroux
April 1, 1987

Maugham

Mary Lee Settle
April 1, 1987

Meeting Matisse

I came looking for the genius behind La Ronde—and found a man sulking over old clippings
Quentin Bell
April 1, 1987

Poetry

Vase with anemones, ca. 1907. Rijksmuseum.

In Memoriam

Adrienne Rich
April 1, 1987
Hilma af klimt, Wheat and wormwood, 1922.

Losing a Language

W. S. Merwin
April 1, 1987
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram

Native

W. S. Merwin
April 1, 1987

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