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Volume 113, No. 1
Spring 2025
The Yale Review

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Cover: Francesca Gabbiani, Mutation L, 2023. Courtesy the artist and Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles.

Table of Contents

Nonfiction

Vanity Fair’s Heyday

I was once paid six figures to write an article—now what?
Bryan Burrough
March 14, 2025

“Channel, 2019–24”

Capturing Los Angeles in crisis
Sasha Rudensky
March 11, 2025

A Unified Theory of the Handbag

Was an accessory the secret to evolution?
Audrey Wollen
March 11, 2025

Finding the Real in Photorealism

Do we want art to transform our lives?
Jonathan Griffin
March 11, 2025

My Mother’s Ashtray

When I lost her, I lost a world
Jonathan Lethem
March 11, 2025

Reading During a Genocide

What Etel Adnan's novel taught me
Isabella Hammad
March 11, 2025

Scenes from Childhood

The unseen world of the great playwright
Adrienne Kennedy
March 11, 2025

The Broken Cadillac

When you wish you could refuse an inheritance
Jennifer Stock
March 11, 2025

The Comforts of Geological Time

How to grieve when you don’t know how
Edmée Lepercq
March 11, 2025

Zora Neale Hurston’s Rediscovered Novel

A new publication obscures the canonical writer
Tiana Reid
March 11, 2025

Fiction

Hangman

Samantha Hunt
March 11, 2025
Nighttime view of a lit apartment window on rue de Douai in Paris. It looks in on a domestic scene and a woman reclining.

Life Elsewhere

Guadalupe Nettel,
translated by Rosalind Harvey
March 11, 2025

Poetry

A Year

Sam Bailey
March 11, 2025

After You

Sam Bailey
March 11, 2025

Enter Military Songs

Dalia Taha,
translated by Sara Elkamel
March 11, 2025

Enter Silence

Dalia Taha,
translated by Sara Elkamel
March 11, 2025

Enter Weapons Factories

Dalia Taha,
translated by Sara Elkamel
March 11, 2025

momoy

Julian Talamantez Brolaski
March 11, 2025

The Cardinal

Zoey Brookshire
March 11, 2025
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The Fourth Talking Scroll

Courtney Bush
March 11, 2025

Folios

Instagram

Is life online real?
Jesse Damiani
March 11, 2025

LSD

Are hallucinations real?
Abou Farman
March 11, 2025

Michael Crichton

Is celebrity real?
Joanna Radin
March 11, 2025

Paul

Is the self real?
Sheila Heti
March 11, 2025

Storytelling

Is narrative real?
Mona Oraby
March 11, 2025

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When I lost her, I lost a world
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