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The Elusive Poet of Desire

Why biographers can’t pin Cavafy down
Langdon Hammer

going to behave

caroline ganci patterson

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

Lanternfly

Emma Copley Eisenberg

An Unsettling Civil War Photograph

An image from the Battle of the Wilderness
Rachel Eisendrath

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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Spring 2026

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Night Knowledge

What I learned at the club
Aria Aber

Gaseosa

María José Bilbao,
translated by Abby Melick

The Body I Couldn't Abstract

Motherhood reshaped how I see shame, art, and the female body
Megan O’Grady

James Schuyler’s Genius

Why our greatest poet of the everyday has become a poet of the moment
Mae Losasso
Black-and-white photo of James Schuyler in the hallway of the Chelsea Hotel, New York City, 1988

Solvej Balle’s Philosophy of Time

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

Quiver and Fixity

What I found returning to Thomas Hardy in midlife
Jhumpa Lahiri

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