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What I learned at the club
Aria Aber

Solvej Balle’s Philosophy of Time

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

Suddenly

Jorie Graham

The Body I Couldn't Abstract

Motherhood reshaped how I see shame, art, and the female body
Megan O’Grady
Dreamlike nineteenth-century French lithograph of a woman resting her head on her hands

A Night’s Sleep

An insomniac’s lifelong pursuit
Vincenzo Latronico

Lanternfly

Emma Copley Eisenberg

Spring 2026

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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

The Elusive Poet of Desire

Why biographers can’t pin Cavafy down
Langdon Hammer

An Unsettling Civil War Photograph

An image from the Battle of the Wilderness
Rachel Eisendrath

Quiver and Fixity

What I found returning to Thomas Hardy in midlife
Jhumpa Lahiri

Gaseosa

María José Bilbao,
translated by Abby Melick

Unlike these works that spin alternate realities, Hamnet builds a world that dwells in the unexplored margins of the historical record.

Dana Stevens Who Was Shakespeare?

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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

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