Essays

The Shapes of Grief

Witnessing the unbearable
Christina Sharpe

Palestinian Solidarity, Then and Now

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

Louise Glück’s Late Style

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

Jean Stein’s Rolodex

The legendary editor’s social genius
Benjamin Anastas

The Path to Playwright

Discovering my literary hero in an unlikely place
Sonya Kelly

The Frictions of Interracial Love

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

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Essays

A photograph of a London street during WWII.

After a Visit to England

London during the Blitz
Thornton Wilder
September 1, 1941

A Conversation About Art

Virginia Woolf
September 1, 1934

The Novels of Turgenev

Virginia Woolf
December 1, 1933

Aurora Leigh

Virginia Woolf
June 1, 1931

Augustine Birrell

Virginia Woolf
June 1, 1930
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram

Thirty Clocks Strike the Hour

Vita Sackville-West
September 1, 1929