Folios

The Future of Nationalism

Four writers dissect its complex past—and its uncertain path forward

Announcing the Winner of the Yale Nonfiction Book Prize

The Yale Review and Yale University Press are thrilled to announce that Jonathan Gleason is the inaugural winner of the prize for his manuscript Field Guide to Falling Ill, selected by Meghan O'Rourke.
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Poems on the Divine

Nine poets at the edge of the signifiable

Poems of Lovesickness

Nine poets on eros and longing

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The Waste Land at 100

Selections from the archives

Dictee at Forty

The life and legacy of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

Resisting Category

New Spanish-language fiction in translation

Pandemic Files

Life under quarantine
Image of COVID-19 virus. Graphic by Bianca Ibarlucea.

Black Hauntology

The ghosts that endure

Ownership

The complexities of property

A New Direction in American Poetry

Where lyric meets narrative
"Folio" in typewriter font

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Folios

My Sixth Life

Kazim Ali
December 6, 2023

The Cloisters

Will Brewbaker
December 6, 2023

The Good Angel

Rafael Alberti
translated by John Murillo
December 6, 2023

The Repetition of the Wound

Khadijah Queen
December 6, 2023

Two Days in a Row in November I Died Twice

Tarfia Faizullah
December 6, 2023

Worm Manifesto

Kathleen Radigan
December 6, 2023

Beyond the Attention Economy

Turning to face our burning world
Laura Dassow Walls
May 23, 2023

How to Sharpen a Scythe

Is paying attention good in itself?
Daegan Miller
May 23, 2023

Sublimation and Self-Possession

Bearing witness to life’s weirdness
Ana Schwartz
May 23, 2023

The Saunterers’ Club

In pursuit of a more wayward Thoreau
Caleb Smith
May 23, 2023