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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Byron and Mr. Briggs

With an introduction by Edward A. Hungerford
Virginia Woolf
March 1, 1979

Messages

Mary Oliver
April 1, 1978

Reading and Misreading

Jonathan Culler
October 1, 1975

Pynchon’s Gravity

Edward Mendelson
July 1, 1973

Summer Solstice

Po Fei Huang
January 1, 1971
John Ashbery, Samos, collage, 2010. © Estate of John Ashbery. Courtesy Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York.

Impermeable

John Ashbery
October 1, 1968