Essays

The Shapes of Grief

Witnessing the unbearable
Christina Sharpe

Palestinian Solidarity, Then and Now

The power of encampment as a form of protest
Feisal G. Mohamed

Louise Glück’s Late Style

The fabular turn in the poet’s last three books
Teju Cole

Jean Stein’s Rolodex

The legendary editor’s social genius
Benjamin Anastas

The Path to Playwright

Discovering my literary hero in an unlikely place
Sonya Kelly

The Frictions of Interracial Love

How one fundamental difference can color every aspect of marriage
Anne Anlin Cheng

Browse

Essays

Traffic in smog

Driving Us to Despair

Soul-killing and racist, the American commute is deeply wrong
Jess Row
April 1, 2020
Cityscape

Copying & Lying

From For Now
Eileen Myles
April 1, 2020
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram

Is This Tyranny?

How losing the right to vote changed my understanding of America
Feisal G. Mohamed
April 1, 2020
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Medicine’s Innovation Problem

The novel coronavirus exposes health care’s key weakness
Rena Xu
March 30, 2020
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The Law of Salus Populi

Epidemics and the law
John Fabian Witt
March 30, 2020
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The Lice

Vulnerability, contagion, and children
Miranda Featherstone
March 30, 2020
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Cannon Fodder

A doctor on the front lines
Laura Kolbe
March 27, 2020
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There’s a Sickness Outside

A doctor reflects on how dread and anxiety can become their own pandemic
Nitin Ahuja
March 27, 2020
Fine art of a woman bathing

A Common Seagull

On making art and mourning
Sheila Heti
January 1, 2020
Abstract automaton

Broken Doll

A daughter’s suicide in another country
Carlos Manuel Álvarez
and
Rahul Bery
January 1, 2020