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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Endings

Mona Van Duyn
April 1, 1992

Fiction in Review

Marilynne Robinson
April 1, 1992

In Those Years

Adrienne Rich
April 1, 1992
An open mouth; Illustration by Laura Padilla Castellanos

September Twilight

Louise Glück
April 1, 1992
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram

Short Talks

Anne Carson
July 1, 1991

State and Vine

On Thomas Pynchon's Vineland
Richard Powers
July 1, 1991

"The Waste Land" Revisited

Helen Vendler
December 1, 1990