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Finding Hope Among the Fragments

Finding Hope Among the Fragments

Ward Toward is the 118th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, in which Cindy Juyoung Ok moves assuredly between spaces—from the psych ward to a prison cell, from… READ MORE

The Sky Turns Black from Smoke

The Sky Turns Black from Smoke

Marci Shore— The Sky Turns Black from Smoke Close to midnight on Tuesday, 18 February 2014, twenty-one-year-old Misha Martynenko, reeking of smoke, returned to the Kiev apartment he shared with… READ MORE

Free Speech and Intellectual Diversity

Free Speech and Intellectual Diversity

Michael S. Roth— Advocates for unfettered speech are often following the “free market” approach: just as more competition in the economic marketplace makes it more likely that goods and services… READ MORE

The Challenge of Casanova

The Challenge of Casanova

Leo Damrosch— Everyone knows that Casanova was a seducer. He belongs to that rare company of mortals whose personal names have floated free from history, and we know what a… READ MORE

To Forget What We Are Carrying

To Forget What We Are Carrying

Carl Phillips— When I was ten, I wanted to learn to play the clarinet and eventually join the school band. But (or And, or So—) my father found an affordable,… READ MORE

The Calamity of an “Idea”

The Calamity of an “Idea”

Nelly Lahoud— Within less than two years of conceiving the idea, Usama put it into action. On September 11, 2001, and on Usama’s orders, nineteen terrorists hijacked four commercial airplanes,… READ MORE

Mark Rothko, A Painter of Ideas

Mark Rothko, A Painter of Ideas

The new edition of The Artist’s Reality, Mark Rothko’s revered book on artistic practice and philosophy, features an afterword written for this occasion by artist and award-winning author Makoto Fujimura, whose own… READ MORE

I Had a Dream About You

I Had a Dream About You

Selected by Nobel Prize laureate and competition judge Louise Glück as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, Richard Siken’s Crush is a powerful collection of poems driven… READ MORE

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