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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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Letters to Arthur Gold, Robert Fizdale, and James Merrill

Edited with a note by Langdon Hammer
Elizabeth Bishop
April 1, 2003

Letter to a Young Novelist

Mario Vargas Llosa,
translated by Natasha Wimmer
July 1, 2002

Winter Field

Ellen Bryant Voigt
April 1, 2002

Ibsen the Pioneer

Stella Adler
April 1, 1999

On Rhyme

Anthony Hecht
April 1, 1999
Odilon Redon, Beatrice, 1897. Courtesy Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam..

The Burning Heart

Louise Glück
January 1, 1999

The Erotic Philosophers

Carolyn Kizer
October 1, 1998

A Fall

Anthony Hecht
July 1, 1998