AS PART OF The Yale Review's INITIATIVE TO MAKE thoughtful criticism and innovative literature accessible to a wide audience, we host timely readings and conversations with writers at Yale University and beyond. Each spring, The Yale Review Festival brings preeminent writers, critics, and editors together in New Haven for a week of talks, readings, and workshops. The Yale Review also hosts lunchtime talks throughout the academic year with writers and industry professionals, as well as readings and events in New York City. We hope you’ll join us at our next event! Subscribe to our newsletter to stay updated about upcoming events.
Events
Upcoming Events
Finzi-Contini Lecture featuring Jhumpa Lahiri
Quiver and Fixity: On Rereading “Jude the Obscure”
Monday, September 29 13, 4:30 p.m.
320 York Street, Humanities Quadrangle, LO2
Join Pulitzer Prize–winning writer and translator Jhumpa Lahiri for the annual Finzi-Contini Lecture as she offers fresh insight into a literary classic.
This lecture will explore the oscillating energy of Thomas Hardy’s final work of fiction, tracing themes of stillness, solitude, perturbation, and permanence. Mythical frameworks will serve to consider the wavering nature of identity, the looming proximity of the underworld, and the condition of feeling both confined and unsettled in this famously unsettling novel.
Presented by the Whitney Humanities Center and cosponsored by The Yale Review.
The Yale Review at the Brooklyn Book Festival
Sunday, September 21, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.
Table 215
Brooklyn Borough Hall
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TYR Lunch Talk
Documentary Filmmaking Today with Ezra Edelman
Tuesday, October 7, 12 p.m.
320 York Street, Humanities Quadrangle, 134
New Haven, CT
Ezra Edelman, Academy Award– and Emmy Award–winning documentary filmmaker, will discuss his career in filmmaking and the state of documentaries in America today. He will talk about his celebrated five-part miniseries, O. J.: Made in America, as well as his most recent project: a nine-hour documentary on Prince, which is unlikely to ever be released due to conflicts with the musician’s estate. Edelman will be in conversation with James Surowiecki, a senior editor at The Yale Review.
Free and open to all members of the Yale community. Lunch will be served.
The Yale Review at CT Lit Fest
Saturday, October 18, 11 a.m.–6 p.m.
Real Art Ways
56 Arbor Street
Hartford, CT
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The Yale Review Festival 2026
April 7–10, 2026
Details coming soon.