Essays

Lorraine Hansberry’s Queer Archive

The playwright’s lesbian fiction has gone largely unpublished.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

Notes on Affirmation

SFFA v. Harvard and the quest for acceptance
Thomas Dai

This Part of Our Lives Is Over

Sending my daughter to Japan
Emily Bernard

New York Anabasis

In praise of the return to the surface
Rachel Eisendrath

Unfathomable Life

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

James Baldwin in Turkey

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

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Essays

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

Tolle, Lege

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

HMS Bounty

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

The Aquarists

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

Turning the Soil

Cultivating our gardens in times of trouble
Jane Costlow
November 1, 2017
A weathered poster of Chelsea Manning

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

My Old Printer

Anne Fadiman
March 12, 2011

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

Loaf or Hot-Water Bottle

Closely Translating Proust
Lydia Davis
April 1, 2004

Secret Maps

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