Nonfiction

Essays

When Does a Divorce Begin?

Most people think of it as failure. For me it was an achievement.
Anahid Nersessian
Books

Vanity Fair’s Heyday

I was once paid six figures to write an article—now what?
Bryan Burrough
A Closer Read

Taking Offense

Reading through bad feeling
Garth Greenwell
Dan Fox as a child with his nain, or grandmother, in the chicken-filled yard of Siambr Wen, near Llanrwst, North Wales, UK
Essays

What Happened When I Began to Speak Welsh

By learning my family's language, I hoped to join their conversation.
Dan Fox
Sepia toned photograph showing painter Joan Mitchell behind a canvas in her studio
Essays

The Unfolding of Time in Paint

My encounters with Joan Mitchell's panels
Rachel Cohen

Browse

Nonfiction

A cover of the Saturday Evening Post.
Books

“They Don’t Know It, but We’re Integrated”

Thomas Pynchon’s “The Secret Integration” and The Saturday Evening Post
Terry Reilly
January 1, 2019
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
Essays

Natural and Spiritual Freedom

Martin Hägglund
January 1, 2019
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
Essays

Prison Term

Peter Brooks
January 1, 2019
Early 20th-c painting of naked white person of uncertain gender with mid-length hair on a swing in front of a castle/clouds
Essays

Still, Image

Excerpts from In Remembrance of Things Past
Gerard Malanga
January 1, 2019
Painting showing a man and woman in a field
Criticism

The Angelus

Nan Z. Da
January 1, 2019
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
Essays

What You Have Heard Is True

Remembering the fight for Salvadoran freedom
Carolyn Forché
January 1, 2019
Close-up of a dahlia
Essays

Esmeralda

A poem and a flower
Melissa Hunter Gurney
December 24, 2018
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
Essays

The Old Place

Place and technology
Anna Lewis
December 17, 2018
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
Books

Bondage and Freedom

Frederick Douglass
David W. Blight
October 1, 2018
An old advertisement for Lucky Strike in which a blonde woman lights a cigarette.
Essays

Computational Propaganda

Public relations in a high-tech age
Renée DiResta
October 1, 2018