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Nonfiction

Do They Dare to Impeach?

What history tells us about the case against Trump

Feisal G. Mohamed 

“Maladministration” is about as charitable a term as one can use to describe the actions of the forty-fifth president. 

Stereopticon

Twelve ways of looking at my mother

Emily Bernard 

There was something comforting in the strange promise that our lives are not, in the end, a consequence of chance or even choice, but the indifferent hand of fate at work.

Broken Doll

A daughter’s suicide in another country

Carlos Manuel Álvarez, translated by Rahul Bery

Her daughter is lost in a dark and distant kingdom, and she needs someone to rescue her.

Fiction

Breathing Exercise

Raven Leilani  

Those were the days. Days when her mother called and asked why she would do these things to herself in public for white people.

Save the Pedestals

Ivan Vladislavic  

The pig was gone. In its place stood a naked man with shackles on his wrists and ankles, head thrown back and mouth wide open.

Poetry

Ceremony

Margaret Ross

 

People without
anger are more developed. 

Study of Two Figures (Agave/Pentheus)

Monica Youn

 

She said it was an Asian thing and then they stopped asking.

Reviews

San Francisco, 1956

A photograph and its afterlife

Jim Lewis

Let me begin by pointing out that much of what makes it so good is that it’s so incontestably bad.

The Dolphin Letters

Revisiting Robert Lowell’s infamous book

Dan Chiasson

He wanted a book to cause a crisis, as part of its very logic.

Interview

Ben Lerner on Genre Blurring and Magic Pills

Poet Catherine Barnett talks with the novelist about The Topeka School, separating fact from fiction, and readymade writing.

TYR Redux

Thirty Clocks Strike the Hour

It seemed that the flat itself, rather than its occupant, had refused to accept the modifications of a new century. 

Vita Sackville-West
The Yale Review, Autumn 1929.

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