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The Yale Review, Volume 108, Number 4, Winter 2020, pp. 1-4 (Article)

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essays 7 Why I Write Getting ready not to be Samuel R. Delany 34 The Heavy Air Capitalism and affronts to common sense Anne Boyer 44 Unbothered On black nonchalance Namwali Serpell 104 Notes Upon Arrival Diary of lost love Bhanu Kapil 128 Impetus/Impetere The hauntologies of slavery Jonah Mixon-Webster 146 The Anti-Extinction Engine Actuaries of the apocalypse Anne Boyer 175 Wildness The willingness to be defeated Maria Tumarkin

fiction 16 The Reason Why Yiyun Li

poetry 110 The Promise of Threat Jonah Mixon-Webster

plays 150 You Julia Cho 66 On Sugarland An excerpt and annotation Aleshea Harris

portfolio 120 Lorraine O’Grady The cultural construction of identity

conversations 23 Yiyun Li and Sarah Shun-lien Bynum The merits of imperfection 88 Aleshea Harris and Douglas Kearney Signal, noise, and presencing Blackness 112 Bhanu Kapil and Jonah Mixon-Webster A dialogue on somatic practices 154 Alexander Chee, Julia Cho, Susan Choi, and Cathy Park Hong On jeong, language, and ghosts 192 Namwali Serpell and Maria Tumarkin Unethical reading and the limits of empathy

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