Criticism

Books

Searching for Seamus Heaney

What I found when I resolved to read him
Elisa Gonzalez
Seamus Heaney surrounded by books at London’s Royal Society of Literature in March 1995
Books

When Fact-Checking Meant Something

A new novel captures a bygone era in New York journalism
Susan Choi
Books

Andrea Long Chu's Problem with Authority

She built a critical voice on risk and provocation. Who is she speaking to now?
Sam Huber
Books

Vanity Fair’s Heyday

I was once paid six figures to write an article—now what?
Bryan Burrough
Film

Terrence Malick’s Disciples

Why the auteur is the most influential director in Hollywood
Bilge Ebiri
Books

Thomas Pynchon Is Angry

In Shadow Ticket, the novelist takes on America’s indifference to history
Richard Beck

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Criticism

A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
Books

Don Paterson on Poetics

Poetry in review
Stephen Yenser
January 1, 2019
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
Books

On 'The Novel of Ferrara'

Fiction in review
Marta Figlerowicz
January 1, 2019
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
Art

On Andy Warhol

Art in review
Richard Deming
January 1, 2019
Photo of book cover with author Martha Nussbaum
Books

Shipwreck with Spectator

Martha Nussbaum on Our Political Crisis
Feisal G. Mohamed
January 1, 2019
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
Music

The Last Valkyrie

Music in review
Dewey Faulkner
January 1, 2019
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
Books

Bondage and Freedom

Frederick Douglass
David W. Blight
October 1, 2018
Two girls lie facing each other
Film

Life Unamplified

The small-scale satisfactions of Brett Haley’s Hearts Beat Loud
Charles Taylor
October 1, 2018
A photograph of Danez Smith; the book cover image of Smith's collection "Don't Call Us Dead"
Books

On "Don’t Call Us Dead"

Poetry in Review
Christopher Spaide
October 1, 2018
The covers of two of author Nina Sun Eidsheim's books side by side
Music

Racialized Timbre

Listening to listening with musicologist Nina Eidsheim
Marit MacArthur
October 1, 2018
Photograph of Lisa Halliday; book cover of Asymmetry.
Books

Ventriloquizing and the Novel

The nesting structure of Lisa Halliday's Asymmetry
Ayten Tartici
October 1, 2018