Winter 2024

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Volume 112, No. 4
Winter 2024
The Yale Review

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Cover: Michael Thompson, Walking Tall, 2023. Courtesy the artist and Franz Kaka, Toronto. Photograph: Lfdocumentation.

Table of Contents

Nonfiction

In Search of Zabihollah Mansouri

Was Iran’s most famous translator secretly its most prolific author?
Amir Ahmadi Arian
December 10, 2024

In the Steps of Yvonne Rainer

What failing dance class taught me about writing
John Haskell
December 10, 2024

Inheriting Impressionism

Monet and Ja’Tovia Gary among the water lilies
Rachel Cohen
December 10, 2024

My Face

When I look in the bathroom mirror, I see my past and future selves
Melissa Febos
December 10, 2024

The Sexual Histories of Alan Hollinghurst

In Our Evenings, the novelist grapples with a divided Britain
Andrew Martin
December 10, 2024

The Surrealists Move to Mexico City

What Leonora Carrington and her peers found in their new home
Chloe Aridjis
December 10, 2024

What Irony Makes Visible

Fifty years later, Stephen Shore's photographs reveal an impending crisis
Aaron Matz
December 10, 2024

Willem de Kooning’s Jacket

Can I be worthy of an inheritance from my hero?
Megan Craig
December 10, 2024

Fiction

Birds

Sarah Blackman
December 10, 2024

Myrtle Beach

Leanne Shapton
December 10, 2024

Oath

Leanne Shapton
December 10, 2024

Twirl

Ayşegül Savaş
December 10, 2024

Poetry

A Room in Dumb Bitchville

Emily Skillings
December 10, 2024

A Story About Power

Paisley Rekdal
December 10, 2024

Cento for the Night I Tried Stand-Up

Sasha Debevec-McKenney
December 10, 2024

Everything Always Going Away

Andrew Motion
December 10, 2024

In Oslo

Sophia Walsh
December 10, 2024

Inner Vase

Joanna Klink
December 10, 2024

My Heart and the Nonsense

John Okrent
December 10, 2024

Range Life

Ricardo Frasso Jaramillo
December 10, 2024

Folios

A Room in Dumb Bitchville

Emily Skillings
December 10, 2024

A Story About Power

Paisley Rekdal
December 10, 2024

Cento for the Night I Tried Stand-Up

Sasha Debevec-McKenney
December 10, 2024

Everything Always Going Away

Andrew Motion
December 10, 2024

My Heart and the Nonsense

John Okrent
December 10, 2024

Portfolios

mars ibarreche

Thinking—and speaking—with collage
Eugenia Bell
December 10, 2024

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The Sexual Histories of Alan Hollinghurst

In Our Evenings, the novelist grapples with a divided Britain
Andrew Martin

Twirl

Ayşegül Savaş

In Search of Zabihollah Mansouri

Was Iran’s most famous translator secretly its most prolific author?
Amir Ahmadi Arian