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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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John Ashbery, Palette, collage, 2011. © Estate of John Ashbery, courtesy Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York.

Strangers May Kiss

John Ashbery
October 1, 1968

My Cousin in April

Louise Glück
June 1, 1967

For S., at the Boat Pond

Jean Valentine
March 1, 1967

Four Summers

Joyce Carol Oates
March 1, 1967

Bounty

Cormac McCarthy
March 1, 1965

The Idea of Perfection

Iris Murdoch
March 1, 1964

New Books in Review

Poems and Books of Poems
Thom Gunn
October 1, 1963