October 2018

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Volume 106, No. 4
October 2018
The Yale Review

Contributors

Table of Contents

Nonfiction

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Books

Bondage and Freedom

Frederick Douglass

David W. Blight

October 1, 2018

An old advertisement for Lucky Strike in which a blonde woman lights a cigarette.

Computational Propaganda

Public relations in a high-tech age

Renée DiResta

October 1, 2018

Picture of angel figure over the plains

Getting It Twisted

Jabari Asim

October 1, 2018

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Incarcerated Language

Reginald Dwayne Betts

October 1, 2018

A photograph of Leni Riefenstahl during filming, 1936.

Leni Riefenstahl

On a Nazi female filmmaker

Francine Prose

October 1, 2018

Two girls lie facing each other

Film

Life Unamplified

The small-scale satisfactions of Brett Haley’s Hearts Beat Loud

Charles Taylor

October 1, 2018

A poster with figures whose bodies include the letters C and P. El Lissitzky, Basic Calculus, 1928.

Of Martyrs and Robots

Propaganda and group identity

Megan Hyska

October 1, 2018

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Music

Racialized Timbre

Listening to listening with musicologist Nina Eidsheim

Marit MacArthur

October 1, 2018

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The Misinformation Age

Weaponizing Reputation

Cailin O’Connor

and

James Owen Weatherall

October 1, 2018

Criticism

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Books

On "Don’t Call Us Dead"

Poetry in Review

Christopher Spaide

October 1, 2018

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Books

Ventriloquizing and the Novel

The nesting structure of Lisa Halliday's Asymmetry

Ayten Tartici

October 1, 2018

Fiction

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Anthropophagi

Leslie Epstein

October 1, 2018

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The Pilot’s Instructions

Karen E. Bender

October 1, 2018

Poetry

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Against Anxiety

Vona Groarke

October 1, 2018

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Against Pessimism

Vona Groarke

October 1, 2018

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Albuquerque Aubade

Randy Blasing

October 1, 2018

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Boats

Hailey Leithauser

October 1, 2018

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Dove Song

Hailey Leithauser

October 1, 2018

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Hasty Pudding

Stanley Moss

October 1, 2018

Jeanne Mammen, She Represents (Carnival Scene), c. 1928. Priv collection © VG BILD-KUNST Bonn, 2017, rep © Mathias Schormann

Invitation

Hailey Leithauser

October 1, 2018

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Jar Song

Don Bogen

October 1, 2018

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Light Steps

Jeredith Merrin

October 1, 2018

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Nostalgia

James Arthur

October 1, 2018

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On Atrazine

Zoë Hitzig

October 1, 2018

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Perspective

Carolie Parker

October 1, 2018

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Proxy Means

Zoë Hitzig

October 1, 2018

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The Old Country

Vona Groarke

October 1, 2018

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The Sandy Hook Fire

Henry Hart

October 1, 2018

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Verklärte Nacht

Bruce Bond

October 1, 2018

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