Essays

Essays

Lorraine Hansberry’s Queer Archive

The playwright’s lesbian fiction has gone largely unpublished. But she wanted you to read it.
Alec Pollak
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Notes on Affirmation

SFFA v. Harvard and the quest for acceptance
Thomas Dai
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This Part of Our Lives Is Over

Sending my daughter to Japan
Emily Bernard
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New York Anabasis

In praise of the return to the surface
Rachel Eisendrath
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Unfathomable Life

As a philosopher, I thought I understood risk. Then I tried to get pregnant.
Anna Hartford
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James Baldwin in Turkey

How Istanbul changed his career—and his life
Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi

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A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
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Tolle, Lege

Gregory Pardlo
April 1, 2018
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
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HMS Bounty

A moment in Venice
Rachel Kushner
November 1, 2017
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
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The Aquarists

Life, death, and fish
Seth Lerer
November 1, 2017
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
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Turning the Soil

Cultivating our gardens in times of trouble
Jane Costlow
November 1, 2017
A weathered poster of Chelsea Manning
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Whistleblower, Traitor, Soldier, Queer?

The truth of Chelsea Manning
Lida Maxwell
November 1, 2017
A photograph of a train station in Russia at night.
Journals

A Journey Across Siberia

Penetrating the Soviet Union in 1967
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
July 1, 2015
From The Archives

My Old Printer

Anne Fadiman
March 12, 2011
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The Republic of Letters

Edith Wharton at the Start of Her Career
Hermione Lee
April 1, 2007
Graphic with loaves of bread and water bottles on a black and orange background. Illustration by Laura Padilla Castellanos
Essays

Loaf or Hot-Water Bottle

Closely Translating Proust
Lydia Davis
April 1, 2004
From the Archives

Secret Maps

Holly Wright's Photographs of Hands
Charles Simic
October 1, 1996