Essays

Essays

The Shapes of Grief

Witnessing the unbearable
Christina Sharpe
The Moment

Palestinian Solidarity, Then and Now

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

Louise Glück’s Late Style

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

Jean Stein’s Rolodex

The legendary editor’s social genius
Benjamin Anastas
Essays

The Path to Playwright

Discovering my literary hero in an unlikely place
Sonya Kelly
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The Frictions of Interracial Love

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

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Essays

Essays

The Shapes of Grief

Witnessing the unbearable
Christina Sharpe
September 9, 2024
Objects of Desire

Vintage Merch

Buying someone else’s history
Hanif Abdurraqib
September 9, 2024
Essays

The Frictions of Interracial Love

How one fundamental difference can color every aspect of marriage
Anne Anlin Cheng
September 5, 2024
Annotating the Archives

The Poet as a Young Critic

In Thom Gunn’s early work for The Yale Review, he valued style above all else
Langdon Hammer
June 27, 2024
The Moment

A Reviewer’s Life

The material constraints of writing criticism today
Christine Smallwood
June 10, 2024
Essays

Critical Navel-Gazing

If criticism is in crisis, it’s not the critic’s problem
Namwali Serpell
June 10, 2024
Essays

I, Too, Am John Clare

Becoming a different kind of postcolonial writer
Amit Chaudhuri
June 10, 2024
Essays

Jean Stein’s Rolodex

The legendary editor’s social genius
Benjamin Anastas
June 10, 2024
Essays

Louise Glück’s Late Style

The fabular turn in the poet’s last three books
Teju Cole
June 10, 2024
Essays

The Critic as Friend

The challenge of reading generously
Merve Emre
June 10, 2024