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

Foreigner

Cristina Rivera Garza
translated by Sarah Booker
March 27, 2023

Penultimate Activities

Alejandro Zambra
translated by Megan McDowell
March 27, 2023

The Illumination of Santiago

Nona Fernández
translated by Idra Novey
March 27, 2023

Hidden Words

Searching for meaning in a rubber stamp
Uljana Wolf
September 1, 2022

Reclaiming Our Language

Dictee as a feminist ritual
Zahra Patterson
September 1, 2022

Space to Grieve

An irreducible legacy
Latipa
September 1, 2022

The Stakes of Dictee

An introduction to a famously difficult work
Ken Chen
September 1, 2022

The Weight of Memory

Honoring my dear friend
Yong Soon Min
September 1, 2022

Akron State of Mind

Did I betray my friends by moving to the suburbs?
William Evans
July 11, 2022