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A Shakespeare and Company Interview: David Szalay on his novel “Flesh” Shakespeare and Company’s Adam Biles discusses memory and masculinity with novelist David Szalay.

David Szalay reflects on the elusive moral terrain of his Booker Prize–winning novel FLESH—and why, from the very beginning, he set out to express things "obliquely, because to express them directly was, in a way, beyond the power of words."

"I wrote an ode
to reticence, my habit
of perfection. The held
and holding word,
its wetting tract is not,
as Hopkins said, renunciation
but a space, I think
for coiled sound to shift."

—Isabel Neal, "Doublet"

We’re delighted to share the latest in our collaboration with @yalereview.bsky.social And, if you prefer your interviews channelled directly into your ear holes, the podcast dropped today too.

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"The only starting point—and this is important—is the physical body, the physicality of existence."

For our latest installment in partnership with Shakespeare and Company, David Szalay on his Booker Prize–winning novel FLESH.

"Under-slumber, buckle
my mouth is.
And was it good,
to be this way and not
be known? It’s like a net.
I wrote it down."

—Isabel Neal, "Doublet"

"I wrote an ode
to reticence, my habit
of perfection. The held
and holding word,
its wetting tract is not,
as Hopkins said, renunciation
but a space, I think
for coiled sound to shift."

From "Doublet" by Isabel Neal, TYR's Poem of the Week:

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If you live in Baltimore, or are headed there this week for AWP, stop by the Pratt Street Ale House on Friday evening for drinks with n+1, New Directions, @yalereview.bsky.social, and @dorothyproject.bsky.social!
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Mikko Harvey: “Analysis” A poem by Mikko Harvey:

I love this poem by Mikko Harvey in @yalereview.bsky.social so much that I copied it by hand into my notebook.

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We are delighted to share that The Yale Review has been named a finalist for the National Magazine Award for General Excellence, Literature, Science and Politics, as well as a finalist for the ASME Award for Fiction! Congratulations to our team and to our brilliant writers.

"I don’t know how far my care goes, and I suffer for it.
Some substance pulls through my heart-shaped heart."

—Sarah Jean Grimm, "Zero Conditional"

“Lawns are reversible. They suffer without care.”

From "Zero Conditional" by Sarah Jean Grimm, TYR's Poem of the Week:

"Black shawls, black kitchens, red faces in Abruzzi,
hams hang from the ceilings in Abruzzi,
tortured to death after a winter in Abruzzi,
he who ate oranges in the snows of Abruzzi."

—Valzhyna Mort, "Winter in Trastevere"

Daniel Lefferts: “Terms and Conditions” A short story by Daniel Lefferts: “Last summer my friend Andrew and I spent a few days in Fort Lauderdale.”

Daniel Lefferts with a great short story in the @yalereview.bsky.social serving up a dose of scathing gay horror — too real, too close !

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"My love, let us read one more book about winter.
First strawberries redden a Roman market
the morning a mad empire bombs waking cities."

From "Winter in Trastevere" by Valzhyna Mort, TYR's Poem of the Week:

Daniel Lefferts: “Terms and Conditions” A short story by Daniel Lefferts: “Last summer my friend Andrew and I spent a few days in Fort Lauderdale.”

An excellent, funny, and winningly bleak and nasty short story from Daniel Lefferts, in @yalereview.bsky.social yalereview.org/article/dani...

Daniel Lefferts: “Terms and Conditions” A short story by Daniel Lefferts: “Last summer my friend Andrew and I spent a few days in Fort Lauderdale.”

“Our lives had no meaning. For a moment I thought maybe we’d reached a place where we could admit this." A short story by Daniel Lefferts, new today on TYR. yalereview.org/article/dani...

We're thrilled to welcome Richie Hofmann and @garthgreenwell.bsky.social to Yale for a day of events next Wednesday! A generative workshop, a tea and informal Q&A, and a reading and conversation. More details: yalereview.org/events

🫐 new poem in the yale review 🫐

Chen Chen: “Tale of the Blueberries” A poem by Chen Chen: “I needed a cold book for the warm weather.”

"My family’s blueberry farm—it sounded like a setting
in a book, a warm book in which anything could happen
or a cold book in which only one thing must happen."

—Chen Chen, "Tale of the Blueberries"

I can’t hardly stand it this is so light footed and melancholic. All I want to do today is read it. Thank you @chenchenwrites.bsky.social.

Chen Chen: “Tale of the Blueberries” A poem by Chen Chen: “I needed a cold book for the warm weather.”

"I had fallen in love with the past
tense, wishing I could always speak in it & end
most of my verbs with a firmness that felt
like clarity. But
that was no way to order an iced mocha."

From "Tale of the Blueberries" by Chen Chen, TYR's Poem of the Week:

This Wednesday!

Kirk Wilson: “The Middle Ages” A poem by Kirk Wilson: “In the Middle Ages people went looking for the center of things”

"They had visions but didn’t see the data centers and the ICE raids coming

The voices they heard in the air were not in the language they had learned

They felt like they were being followed"

—Kirk Wilson, "The Middle Ages"

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Kirk Wilson: “The Middle Ages” A poem by Kirk Wilson: “In the Middle Ages people went looking for the center of things”

"In the Middle Ages people went looking for the center of things

Sometimes it seemed they could almost see it

Sometimes it came at them from a crazy angle and it scared them"

From "The Middle Ages" by Kirk Wilson, TYR's Poem of the Week:

Field Guide to Falling Ill: Essays Essays

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⭐️ “Arresting prose meets emotional and clinical intelligence in this lucid collection.”
—Kirkus Reviews, starred review

⭐️ “A triumph.”
—Publishers Weekly, starred review

⭐️ Happy pub day to Jonathan Gleason! FIELD GUIDE TO FALLING ILL, the inaugural winner of the Yale Nonfiction Book Prize, is out today from @yalepress.bsky.social ⭐️