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 Political Preface

An editor's note from Wilbur Cross during World War II
Wilbur L. Cross
September 1, 1940

Tides of American Politics

Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr.
December 1, 1939

The Shortest Way Home

Muriel Rukeyser
October 1, 1939

Geode

Robert Frost
March 1, 1938

The Brothers

John Cheever
June 1, 1937