Cover: Lucien Freud, Still Life with Green Lemon, 1947. © The Lucian Freud Archive. All Rights Reserved 2025 / Bridgeman Images.
Winter 2025
Volume 113, No. 4
Winter 2025
The Yale Review
Table of Contents
Nonfiction
Searching for Seamus Heaney
What I found when I resolved to read him
Elisa Gonzalez
December 15, 2025
Terrence Malick’s Disciples
Why the auteur is the most influential director in Hollywood
Bilge Ebiri
December 15, 2025
What Happened When I Began to Speak Welsh
By learning my family's language, I hoped to join their conversation.
Dan Fox
December 15, 2025
When Does a Divorce Begin?
Most people think of it as failure. For me it was an achievement.
Anahid Nersessian
December 15, 2025
The Unfolding of Time in Paint
My encounters with Joan Mitchell's panels
Rachel Cohen
December 11, 2025
Thomas Pynchon Is Angry
In Shadow Ticket, the novelist takes on America’s indifference to history
Richard Beck
October 27, 2025
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