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Antarctica

Jen Silverman
Rumpled white sheet

Do You Actually Have to Finish That Novel?

A critic considers the strange moral pressure we feel to read to the very last page
Michel Chaouli


James Schuyler’s Genius

Why our greatest poet of the everyday has become a poet of the moment
Mae Losasso

Gaseosa

María José Bilbao,
translated by Abby Melick

Lanternfly

Emma Copley Eisenberg

I’ve always been a sucker for books and movies in which people are main characters in one part and side characters in another, in which people are connected in loose but powerful ways.

Emma Copley Eisenberg Behind the Story

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Spring 2026

Our new issue is available in print and online now.

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A Night’s Sleep

An insomniac’s lifelong pursuit
Vincenzo Latronico

Who Was Shakespeare?

What Hamnet does—and doesn’t—get right
Dana Stevens

An Unsettling Civil War Photograph

An image from the Battle of the Wilderness
Rachel Eisendrath

The Elusive Poet of Desire

Why biographers can’t pin Cavafy down
Langdon Hammer

Solvej Balle’s Philosophy of Time

How a novelist transformed a single day into a radical experiment in time
Clare Carlisle

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.

Aria Aber Behind the Essay

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Suddenly

Jorie Graham

A. Philip Randolph

Remembering the civil rights leader and my friend of over four decades
Bayard Rustin

Virginia Woolf In The Yale Review

Ten pieces from one of the twentieth century's greatest minds