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Volume 113, No. 4
Winter 2025
The Yale Review

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Cover: Lucien Freud, Still Life with Green Lemon, 1947. © The Lucian Freud Archive. All Rights Reserved 2025 / Bridgeman Images.

Table of Contents

Nonfiction

Dick Rudisill’s “Ruined Couch,” a gelatin silver print of a cushionless, dirt-covered sofa

Loveseat

I threw it away. Then I wanted it back.
Helen Phillips
December 15, 2025
Seamus Heaney surrounded by books at London’s Royal Society of Literature in March 1995

Searching for Seamus Heaney

What I found when I resolved to read him
Elisa Gonzalez
December 15, 2025

Terrence Malick’s Disciples

Why the auteur is the most influential director in Hollywood
Bilge Ebiri
December 15, 2025
Dan Fox as a child with his nain, or grandmother, in the chicken-filled yard of Siambr Wen, near Llanrwst, North Wales, UK

What Happened When I Began to Speak Welsh

By learning my family's language, I hoped to join their conversation.
Dan Fox
December 15, 2025

When Does a Divorce Begin?

Most people think of it as failure. For me it was an achievement.
Anahid Nersessian
December 15, 2025
Sepia toned photograph showing painter Joan Mitchell behind a canvas in her studio

The Unfolding of Time in Paint

My encounters with Joan Mitchell's panels
Rachel Cohen
December 11, 2025

Thomas Pynchon Is Angry

In Shadow Ticket, the novelist takes on America’s indifference to history
Richard Beck
October 27, 2025

Fiction

Digital blocks depicting the numbers two, nine, and nine in an art installation by Tatsuo Miyajima

One Mississippi, Two Mississippi, Three Mississippi

Jonas Hassen Khemiri
December 15, 2025
Detail of photographer Alfred Stieglitz’s “Window: Wood, Glass, Snow,” a 1923 photo depicting a grilled window, snowed over

What Are We Doing, What Have We Done

Nathan Englander
December 15, 2025

Poetry

A Peer Among Friends

Hannah Zeavin
December 15, 2025

from −K

Eli Payne Mandel
December 15, 2025

House

Emily Hoffman
December 15, 2025

In the Mood for Love

Megan Fernandes
December 15, 2025

Just Us

Wendy Lotterman
December 15, 2025

Memoir

Emily Hoffman
December 15, 2025

Middle Vision

Wendy Lotterman
December 15, 2025

Parents

D. A. Fisher
December 15, 2025

Sleep Training

Jay Deshpande
December 15, 2025

The Plumber

Kathryn Maris
December 15, 2025

The Stranger

Melissánthi,
translated by Kathryn Maris
December 15, 2025

Folios

A Peer Among Friends

Hannah Zeavin
December 15, 2025

from −K

Eli Payne Mandel
December 15, 2025

House

Emily Hoffman
December 15, 2025

In the Mood for Love

Megan Fernandes
December 15, 2025

Just Us

Wendy Lotterman
December 15, 2025

Memoir

Emily Hoffman
December 15, 2025

Middle Vision

Wendy Lotterman
December 15, 2025

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When Does a Divorce Begin?

Most people think of it as failure. For me it was an achievement.
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The Unfolding of Time in Paint

My encounters with Joan Mitchell's panels
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