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The Yale Review has won the 2026 ASME Award for Fiction, presented at the National Magazine Awards, for "An Angel Passed Above Us" by László Krasznahorkai (tr. John Batki), "The Rabbit's Foot" by Sigrid Nunez, and "What Are We Doing, What Have We Done" by Nathan Englander.

Fiction

An Angel Passed Above Us

László Krasznahorkai,

translated by John Batki

Shakespeare and Company Interviews

Arundhati Roy

The author on how making sense of violence made her a writer

Adam Biles

Annotating the Archives

Sara Teasdale in The Yale Review

Publishing a major minor poet

Maggie Millner

Poem of the Week

The Day the Night Terrors Finally Stopped

Jessica Nordell

Black-and-white illustration of a tray of food

Fiction

The Rabbit’s Foot

Sigrid Nunez

Detail of photographer Alfred Stieglitz’s “Window: Wood, Glass, Snow,” a 1923 photo depicting a grilled window, snowed over

Fiction

What Are We Doing, What Have We Done

Nathan Englander

Objects of Desire

A Night’s Sleep

An insomniac’s lifelong pursuit

Vincenzo Latronico

Ideas

Who Was Shakespeare?

What Hamnet does—and doesn’t—get right

Dana Stevens

A Closer Look

An Unsettling Civil War Photograph

An image from the Battle of the Wilderness

Rachel Eisendrath

Books

The Elusive Poet of Desire

Why biographers can’t pin Cavafy down

Langdon Hammer

Books

Solvej Balle’s Philosophy of Time

How a novelist transformed a single day into a radical literary experiment

Clare Carlisle

Essays

Night Knowledge

What I learned at the club

Aria Aber

To inhabit an altered, fractured, and mystical space on a sentence level requires a kind of playfulness, and a willingness to acknowledge the unsayable.