From the Archives

The Poet as a Young Critic

In Thom Gunn’s early work for The Yale Review, he valued style above all else
Langdon Hammer

The Role of the Modern Writer

In his work for The Yale Review, Thomas Mann grappled with an artist’s relationship to society
Morten Høi Jensen


The Apostle of Love

How Thomas Mann discovered sensual education in The Magic Mountain
Merve Emre

A. Philip Randolph

Remembering the civil rights leader and my friend of over four decades
Bayard Rustin

The Common Reader

Virginia Woolf in The Yale Review
Claire Messud

"A magazine is not a static thing or the creation of a single mind: it’s a site of the social and communal practice of thought."

Meghan O'Rourke Resurfacing Gems from The Yale Review's Archives

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The Same Time

Octavio Paz,
translated by Eliot Weinberger
January 1, 1983

The Thought of Movies

Stanley Cavell
January 1, 1983

Mallarmé and Bataille

Richard Howard
October 1, 1982

The Future of Democracy

Richard J. Barnet
September 1, 1982

The Middle of Summer

W. S. Merwin
July 1, 1982

Pride

W. H. Auden
January 1, 1982

Tide Music

John Ashbery
January 1, 1981

Unusual Precautions

John Ashbery
January 1, 1981