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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Walden—1954

E. B. White
September 1, 1954
Floral Garlands of Nany, ca. 1050 B.C. Courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Closed for Good

Robert Frost
July 1, 1949

Men With Their Big Shoes

Shirley Jackson
March 1, 1947

Germany and the Germans

Thomas Mann
December 1, 1946

Retrospect

Toyo Suyemoto
December 1, 1946

Nocturnes

Robert Frost
September 1, 1946
Rodrigo Moynihan, Light Bulbs, 1982, oil on canvas. Collection of Robert Becker. Courtesy of Kasmin Gallery.

My Philosophy of Life

John Ashbery
September 1, 1943

A Negro Nation

W. E. B. Du Bois
October 1, 1942

I Could Give All to Time

Robert Frost
September 1, 1941