Essays

Essays

The Critic as Friend

The challenge of reading generously
Merve Emre
The Moment

A Reviewer’s Life

The material constraints of writing criticism today
Christine Smallwood
The Moment

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
Essays

Critical Navel-Gazing

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

I, Too, Am John Clare

Becoming a different kind of postcolonial writer
Amit Chaudhuri

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Essays

A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
From the Archives

A Legend in My Life

My encounters with the incomparable Greta Garbo
Vincent Price
July 1, 1988
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
From the Archives

Making Contact

Encounters with readers
Annie Dillard
July 1, 1988
From the Archives

Women's Rights: Unspeakable Issues in the Constitution

Nancy F. Cott
June 1, 1988
Essays

A. Philip Randolph

Bayard Rustin
April 1, 1987
From the Archives

Retrospect: Poetry in Review

Penelope Laurans
December 1, 1985
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From the Archives

Singing with the Fundamentalists

Annie Dillard
January 1, 1985
From the Archives

A Non-Euclidean View of California as a Cold Place to Be

Ursula K. Le Guin
December 1, 1983
From the Archives

Byron and Mr. Briggs

With an introduction by Edward A. Hungerford
Virginia Woolf
March 1, 1979
An abstract print by Jacob van Heemskerck.
Essays

Naming, Being, and Black Experience

Yale’s first Black professor on the presence or absence of names, their status and their scope.
Michael G. Cooke
December 1, 1977
Detail of a microchip
Essays

Creativity, Poetic Language, and the Computer

What's distinctly human about writing a poem?
Marie Borroff
June 1, 1971