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The Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social · 2h

"I broke
into a house
I thought
abandoned
& wrote
my first poem
on its walls"

— Aldo Amparán, "In My Terrible Years"

The Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social · 10h

"I stoned
all the windows
in my brother’s
elementary
ditched my classes
daily leaking
into the streets”

From "In My Terrible Years" by Aldo Amparán, TYR's Poem of the Week:

Aldo Amparán: “In My Terrible Years”

A poem by Aldo Amparán: “I stoned / all the windows / in my brother’s / elementary”

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 1d

Read a conversation with Neige Sinno by us for @yalereview.bsky.social here: yalereview.org/article/shak...

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The Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social · 2d

"For all of Dorothy Parker’s quips about cocktails and Bukowski’s bromides about beer, Fitzgerald’s prose alcohol content remains unmatched." Amid a cultural turn to sobriety, Sloane Crosley rereads the original “poet inebriate.”

Sloane Crosley: “How Sober Should a Writer Be?”

Sloane Crosley on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s On Booze and the state of American drinking culture.

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The Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social · 2d

With alcohol consumption in America at historic lows, is the boozy-author archetype a thing of the past? For our Essay of the Week, Sloane Crosley traces how Fitzgerald endures as its brightest—and bleakest—example.

Sloane Crosley: “How Sober Should a Writer Be?”

Sloane Crosley on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s On Booze and the state of American drinking culture.

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The Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social · 6d

"Is there even such a thing as land? Fragmentation is our anthem."

— Robin Coste Lewis, “’She Held A Dove Whose Tail Survives’: Self-Portrait as the Acropolis"

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The Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social · 6d

"I wanted the form, the sentences, the paragraphs to take the form of spirals, never reaching closure."

Neige Sinno on SAD TIGER, which was recently long listed for the National Book Award.

A Shakespeare and Company Interview: Neige Sinno on her memoir Sad…

Shakespeare and Company’s Adam Biles discusses form, memory, childhood sexual abuse, and the paradoxes of testimony with novelist and memoirist Neige…

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The Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social · 7d

"I am red. Eros pulls me by the hand. More birds. Who is the sacrifice, my body or my mind?"

— Robin Coste Lewis, “’She Held A Dove Whose Tail Survives’: Self-Portrait as the Acropolis"

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The Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social · 7d

The best new writing here—and there.

We've partnered with @grantamag.bsky.social to bring you a joint subscription deal. One year of the best writing from the U.K. and the U.S. for a special price.

Subscribe: subscribe.granta.com/store/produc...

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The Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social · 7d

"Is there even such a thing as land? Fragmentation is our anthem."

From “’She Held A Dove Whose Tail Survives’: Self-Portrait as the Acropolis,” by Robin Coste Lewis, TYR's Poem of the Week:

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The Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social · 7d

"It is still very mysterious to me how someone crosses the threshold into evil."

From our new collaboration with Shakespeare and Company: an interview with Neige Sinno on her book SAD TIGER.

A Shakespeare and Company Interview: Neige Sinno on her memoir Sad…

Shakespeare and Company’s Adam Biles discusses form, memory, childhood sexual abuse, and the paradoxes of testimony with novelist and memoirist Neige…

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The Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social · 8d

Final hours! Submissions close tonight at 11:59 PM ET.

The Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social · 10d

Last call for submissions! 🚨 Send us your work by Tuesday, September 30 at 11:59 PM ET.

theyalereview.submittable.com/submit

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Meghan O'Rourke @meghanor.bsky.social · 9d

Thrilled to announce a dream collaboration dreamed up by me and Adam Biles: @yalereview.bsky.social + @shakespeareandcompany.com .Together, we’ll publish author conversations from the legendary Paris bookshop—beginning with Neige Sinno on her extraordinary Sad Tiger. yalereview.org/article/shak...

A Shakespeare and Company Interview: Neige Sinno on her memoir Sad…

Shakespeare and Company’s Adam Biles discusses form, memory, childhood sexual abuse, and the paradoxes of testimony with novelist and memoirist Neige…

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 9d

We’re so happy to be teaming up with The Yale Review to make some of our best in-store conversations available to read. The first instalment is with the brilliant Neige Sinno whose SAD TIGER is currently shortlisted for the National Book Award.

The Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social · 9d

We’re thrilled to announce a new partnership with @shakespeareandcompany.com, the legendary Paris bookshop. TYR will publish select transcripts from the shop’s author events. The inaugural installment features Neige Sinno on SAD TIGER—and the paradoxes of story and memory.

A Shakespeare and Company Interview: Neige Sinno on her memoir Sad…

Shakespeare and Company’s Adam Biles discusses form, memory, childhood sexual abuse, and the paradoxes of testimony with novelist and memoirist Neige…

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The Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social · 9d

We’re thrilled to announce a new partnership with @shakespeareandcompany.com, the legendary Paris bookshop. TYR will publish select transcripts from the shop’s author events. The inaugural installment features Neige Sinno on SAD TIGER—and the paradoxes of story and memory.

A Shakespeare and Company Interview: Neige Sinno on her memoir Sad…

Shakespeare and Company’s Adam Biles discusses form, memory, childhood sexual abuse, and the paradoxes of testimony with novelist and memoirist Neige…

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The Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social · 10d

Last call for submissions! 🚨 Send us your work by Tuesday, September 30 at 11:59 PM ET.

theyalereview.submittable.com/submit

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The Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social · 12d

"I stood though
dumbstruck, not knowing, not knowing yet
that I am a hand and my sex
is a hand."

— Sophia Dahlin, "Glove Money":

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Sophia Dahlin @sophiadahlin.bsky.social · 14d

Title poem from Glove Money is @yalereview.bsky.social poem of the week!

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The Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social · 13d

"I thought how erotic,
how could it be so erotic, how secret
that her necklace touches her, she wears the touch
in public."

— Sophia Dahlin, "Glove Money":

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The Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social · 14d

"I stood though
dumbstruck, not knowing, not knowing yet
that I am a hand and my sex
is a hand."

— Sophia Dahlin, "Glove Money":

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The Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social · 15d

We’re thrilled to see two TYR contributors—Susan Choi and Katie Kitamura—on the @thebookerprizes shortlist! 🎉

Read their latest work in our Summer 2025 issue: yalereview.org/issues/summe...

The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 15d

Presenting the #BookerPrize2025 shortlist.

Find out more about the books and authors: thebookerprizes.com/bp2025

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The Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social · 15d

Submissions close one week from today! Send us your poems, stories, essays, and translations by September 30. theyalereview.submittable.com/submit

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The Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social · 19d

The best new writing here—and there.

This autumn, we've partnered with @grantamag.bsky.social to bring you a joint subscription deal. One year of the best writing from the U.K. and the U.S. for a special price.

Subscribe: subscribe.granta.com/store/produc...

Text reading "The best new writing here" with a hand pointing right to three covers of The Yale Review, and beneath, on a darker blue background "And there" with a hand pointing to three covers of Granta Magazine. Text beneath reads "Two magazines. One special price."

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The Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social · 20d

“The clocks tick pink, then turn to horses. Please,
put my heart in the tunnel of your telescope while there’s time.”

— Michelle Kohler, "To Die Is Different" yalereview.org/article/kohl...

Michelle Kohler: “To Die Is Different“

A poem by Michelle Kohler: “The clocks tick pink, then turn to horses. Please, / put my heart in the tunnel of your telescope while there’s time.”

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Gillian White @gillywhite8.bsky.social · 21d

Took me a min to read Maggie Millner’s gr8 piece in @yalereview.bsky.social, but I’d noted the defensive IG comments when it appeared, which show the lightning speed w which lyric shame circulates. So chuffed she used my work so subtly!! yalereview.org/article/mill... “Is Mary Oliver Embarrassing?”

Maggie Millner: “Is Mary Oliver Embarrassing?”

A reckoning with Mary Oliver’s reputation as an unserious poet explores how her best work has been misunderstood.

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