Essays

Essays

Night Knowledge

What I learned at the club
Aria Aber
A Closer Look

An Unsettling Civil War Photograph

An image from the Battle of the Wilderness
Rachel Eisendrath
Essays

Quiver and Fixity

What I found returning to Thomas Hardy in midlife
Jhumpa Lahiri
Objects of Desire

A Night’s Sleep

An insomniac’s lifelong pursuit
Vincenzo Latronico
Essays

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
Essays

The Body I Couldn't Abstract

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

Browse

Essays

Books

Life in the Algorithm

It has reshaped culture—but how? Two new books reckon with our digital predicament
Anna Shechtman
December 11, 2023
Essays

Revisiting Dag Hammarskjöld’s Mysterious Death

One man is known to have survived the infamous crash. Why was his testimony hidden?
Susan Williams
December 11, 2023
Essays

The Night Watch

I first sought sanctuary during the Troubles. I'm still looking for it.
Darran Anderson
December 11, 2023
Essays

Why I Write

The legendary cultural critic on finding a life’s work
Greil Marcus
December 11, 2023
Essays

Ucky Art

Judith Scott, Eva Hesse, and the visceral power of "texxture"
Lauren Elkin
November 6, 2023
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
The Moment

Again On the Slaughter

A response to the Israel-Hamas war
Peter Cole
November 2, 2023
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
The Moment

Speaking Unspeakable Words

A response to the Israel-Hamas war
Feisal G. Mohamed
November 2, 2023
Tribute

Louise Glück

Poet of October
Langdon Hammer
October 23, 2023
Tribute

Louise Glück

A poet you couldn’t hide from
Aria Aber
October 19, 2023
Tribute

Louise Glück

A genuine gift for friendship
Rachel Mannheimer
October 19, 2023