Essays

The Critic as Friend

The challenge of reading generously

Merve Emre

A Reviewer’s Life

The material constraints of writing criticism today

Christine Smallwood

Palestinian Solidarity, Then and Now

The power of encampment as a form of protest

Feisal G. Mohamed

Tribute

Paul Auster

Why the novelist’s brand of postmodern detective fiction still matters

Ben Libman

Critical Navel-Gazing

If criticism is in crisis, it’s not the critic’s problem

Namwali Serpell

I, Too, Am John Clare

Becoming a different kind of postcolonial writer

Amit Chaudhuri

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Essays

Early 20th-c painting of naked white person of uncertain gender with mid-length hair on a swing in front of a castle/clouds

Still, Image

Excerpts from In Remembrance of Things Past

Gerard Malanga

January 1, 2019

Painting showing a man and woman in a field

The Angelus

Nan Z. Da

January 1, 2019

A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram

What You Have Heard Is True

Remembering the fight for Salvadoran freedom

Carolyn Forché

January 1, 2019

Close-up of a dahlia

Esmeralda

A poem and a flower

Melissa Hunter Gurney

December 24, 2018

A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram

The Old Place

Place and technology

Anna Lewis

December 17, 2018

An old advertisement for Lucky Strike in which a blonde woman lights a cigarette.

Computational Propaganda

Public relations in a high-tech age

Renée DiResta

October 1, 2018

Picture of angel figure over the plains

Getting It Twisted

Jabari Asim

October 1, 2018

A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram

Incarcerated Language

Reginald Dwayne Betts

October 1, 2018

A photograph of Leni Riefenstahl during filming, 1936.

Leni Riefenstahl

On a Nazi female filmmaker

Francine Prose

October 1, 2018

A poster with figures whose bodies include the letters C and P. El Lissitzky, Basic Calculus, 1928.

Of Martyrs and Robots

Propaganda and group identity

Megan Hyska

October 1, 2018

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