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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Look Deep

Anthony Hecht
July 1, 1998
Joe Brainard, Garden IV. Courtesy of Kasmin Gallery and Eric Brown Art Group.

New Constructions

John Ashbery
April 1, 1998

The Hammock

Tom Sleigh
April 1, 1998

Air Mail

Jeffrey Eugenides
October 1, 1996

Blood Orange

Charles Simic
October 1, 1996

Secret Maps

Holly Wright's Photographs of Hands
Charles Simic
October 1, 1996

Slaughterhouse Flies

Charles Simic
October 1, 1996

The Street of Martyrs

Charles Simic
October 1, 1996

Love Explained

John Barth
January 1, 1996
Graphic with pudding. Illustration by Laura Padilla Castellanos

Cantilever

John Ashbery
October 1, 1995