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Announcing The Yale Nonfiction Book Prize, co-sponsored by The Yale Review and Yale University Press.

Submissions open on January 15, 2024.

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Blake was also vehemently antiwar, and the resulting print, which expresses those sentiments, is uncannily contemporary, resembling a broadside or protest poster.

Anahid Nersessian William Blake's Laocoön

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Michael Cunningham

The novelist on time, Instagram, and keeping the faith
Elliott Holt

Streaming the Polycrisis

Why have TV miniseries about catastrophe become all the rage?
Adam Fales

Ucky Art

Judith Scott, Eva Hesse, and the visceral power of "texxture"
Lauren Elkin

Revisiting Andrew Holleran's Dancer from the Dance

The novel that introduced a new post-Stonewall gay sensibility
Garth Greenwell
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram

Again On the Slaughter

A response to the Israel-Hamas war
Peter Cole
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram

Speaking Unspeakable Words

A response to the Israel-Hamas war
Feisal G. Mohamed

Remembering Louise Glück

Four decades of the Nobel Prize winner's poetry

The Nature of Shelter

Brenda Shaughnessy

Lorraine Hansberry’s Queer Archive

The playwright’s lesbian fiction has gone largely unpublished. But she wanted you to read it.
Alec Pollak

Theater Selfie

Gregory Pardlo

How Emily Wilson Reimagined Homer

Her boldly innovative translation of the Iliad is an epic for our time
Emily Greenwood

The Choice Plot

Why are so many new novels obsessed with whether–and how–to have children?
Sanjena Sathian
Black and white photograph of a basketball hoop shot upwards from below

Winners

Merritt Tierce
TYR Talks

Garth Greenwell on the Ethical Limits of Teaching and Making Art

An excerpt from The Yale Review's Spring Festival
Garth Greenwell
Portfolio

Found Frame Works

Y. Malik Jalal’s wrought portraits of Black life

Naming Joan Custard

Leanne Shapton
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Sheila Heti

Temperatures

Leopoldine Core

Press-Ons

Justin Jannise

Bass Notes

Leopoldine Core

Announcing The Yale Nonfiction Book Prize

A new book prize, co-sponsored by Yale University Press and The Yale Review. Submissions open January 15, 2024.
Learn More

Elisa Gonzalez

The poet on sisterhood and grief
Maggie Millner

Service or Servitude?

The Bear and The Menu give us very different views of capitalism
Daniel W. Drezner

Are Twins Kinda Gay?

What Dead Ringers reveals about pop culture's latest obsession
Helena de Bres