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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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Ars Diaspora with Drinking Gourd

Omotara James
July 11, 2022
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Black Hauntology: An Introduction

The ghosts that endure
Phillip B. Williams
July 11, 2022
Conversations

Raising the Dead

Three writers on engaging and honoring their ghosts
Aricka Foreman,
Krista Franklin,
and
avery r. young
July 11, 2022

The Ghost of Henry Dumas

Since his mysterious death, the poet's spirit has haunted my family
Treasure Shields Redmond
July 11, 2022
The Moment

The Physician as Patient

Medicine after COVID-19
Laura Kolbe
June 1, 2022

Lighted Windows in Lockdown

The visible and invisible lives of others
Ben Libman
March 14, 2022

The Mother Between Us

Fady Joudah
March 14, 2022

Collector's Item

The everyday ambivalence of property
Eula Biss
and
Dalia Huerta Cano
March 1, 2022

Communalism in the Veld

Rethinking property in South Africa
Glen Retief
March 1, 2022