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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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Alice Munro

The short-story writer's prismatic final collection
Jane Mendelsohn
April 1, 2014

A Curious Cologne

Brigit Pegeen Kelly
April 1, 2009

The Plains of Troy

Carl Phillips
April 1, 2008

A Good Sport

Edmund White
July 1, 2007

The Republic of Letters

Edith Wharton at the Start of Her Career
Hermione Lee
April 1, 2007

Summer Vacation Reading

Rafael Campo
January 1, 2007

As Has Been Said

Marianne Moore
October 1, 2003

Rodin's Penseur

Marianne Moore
October 1, 2003