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The Yale Review October 2019 Volume 107, No. 4 Wiley Blackwell Hoboken, New Jersey & Boston, Massachusetts the yale review fall– winter 2019 The Yale Review Yale University Post Office Box 208243 New Haven, CT 06520-8243 Editorial Board Rizvana Bradley David Bromwich Gregory Crewdson Richard Deming Kai Erikson Anne Fadiman Langdon Hammer Dolores Hayden Michael Kelleher Nancy Kuhl Joseph LaPalombara Penelope Laurans Marci Shore Christian Wiman Timothy Young The Yale Review (Print ISSN 0044 0124, online ISSN 1467 936) is published quarterly by Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., a Wiley Company, 111 River St., Hoboken, NJ 07030-5774 USA. Printed in the USA by the Sheridan Group. Designed by Michael Bierut and Laitsz Ho, Pentagram Information for Subscribers Journal customer services: for ordering information , claims, and any inquiry concerning your journal subscription go to https://hub. wiley.com/community/support/onlinelibrary or contact your nearest office. Americas: email: cs-journals@wiley.com; tel: +1 781 388 8598 or +1 800 835 6770 (toll free in the USA & Canada). Europe, Middle East, and Africa: email: cs-journals@wiley.com; tel: +44 (0) 1865 778315. Asia Pacific: email: cs-journals@ wiley.com; tel: +65 6511 8000. Japan: for japanese-speaking support, email: cs-japan@ wiley.com. Visit our Online Customer Help available in seven languages at the web address above. Subscription Rates for Volume 107, 2019, published quarterly: Institutional Rate US$ 305 £ 237 Individual Rate 1 year US$ 49 £ 52 Individual Rate 2 year US$ 86 £ 91 Individual Rate 3 year US$ 123 £ 131 Prices are exclusive of tax. Asia-Pacific GST, Canadian GST/HST, and European VAT will be applied at the appropriate rates. For more information on current tax rates, please go to https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/library -info/products/price-lists/payment. The institutional price includes online access to the current and all online back files to January 1 2015, where available. For other pricing options, please visit https://onlinelibrary. wiley.com/library-info/products/price-lists. Terms of use: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/ terms-and-conditions. Delivery Terms and Legal Title Where the subscription price includes print issues and delivery is to the recipient’s address, delivery terms are Delivered at Place (DAP); the recipient is responsible for paying any import duty or taxes. Title to all issues transfers Free of Board (FOB) our shipping point, freight prepaid. We will endeavor to fulfill claims for missing or damaged copies within six months of publication, within our reasonable discretion and subject to availability. Mailing Periodical Postage paid at Hoboken, NJ, and additional offces. Postmaster Send all address changes to The Yale Review, John Wiley & Sons Inc., c/o The Sheridan Press, P O Box 465, Hanover, PA 17331 USA. Copyright and Copying Copyright 2019 by Yale University. “Changing My Mind” is excerpted from Essays One, © 2019 Lydia Davis, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. “Save the Pedestals” is © 2019 Ivan Vladislavić. “The Skin You’re In” is from Places I’ve Taken My Body © 2020 Molly McCully Brown, to be published by Persea Books June 2020. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored, or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior permission in writing from the copyright holder. Authorization to copy items for internal and personal use is granted by the copyright holder for libraries and other uses registered with their local Reproduction Rights Organization (RRO), e.g., Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, USA (www.copyright. com), provided the appropriate fee is paid directly to the RRO. This consent does not extend to other kinds of copying. Special requests should be addressed to: permissions @wiley.com Disclaimer The Publisher, Yale University, and Editors cannot be held responsible for errors or any consequences arising from the use of information contained in this journal; the views and opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the Publisher, Yale University, and Editors, neither does the publication of advertisements constitute any endorsement by the Publisher, Yale University, and Editors of the products advertised. View this journal online at yalereview.yale.edu and wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/yrev 5 editor's note the moment 7 In Centennial The only ones left alive Cathy...