From 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
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"A magazine is not a static thing or the creation of a single mind: it’s a site of the social and communal practice of thought."
Meghan O'Rourke Resurfacing Gems from The Yale Review's Archives
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