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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Gods

Vladimir Nabokov,
translated by Dmitri Nabokov
October 1, 1995
Graphic with dishwasher and birdhouses. Illustration by Laura Padilla Castellanos

I, Too

John Ashbery
October 1, 1995

Submitting

Jorie Graham
April 1, 1995

The Strangers

Jorie Graham
April 1, 1995

Apostasy

Henri Cole
January 1, 1995
Young James Merrill with his pet terrier at "The Orchard" in 1930.

Cosmo

James Merrill
April 1, 1994

Mad Business

Charles Simic
July 1, 1993

The Supreme Moment

Charles Simic
July 1, 1993

Event Horizon

Jorie Graham
July 1, 1992