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

Gods

Vladimir Nabokov
translated by Dmitri Nabokov

The Mirror

Haruki Murakami
translated by Philip Gabriel

"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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Men With Their Big Shoes

Shirley Jackson
March 1, 1947
Rodrigo Moynihan, Light Bulbs, 1982, oil on canvas. Collection of Robert Becker. Courtesy of Kasmin Gallery.

My Philosophy of Life

John Ashbery
September 1, 1943

A Negro Nation

W. E. B. Du Bois
January 1, 1942

Tides of American Politics

Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr.
December 1, 1939

The Shortest Way Home

Muriel Rukeyser
October 1, 1939

The Brothers

John Cheever
June 1, 1937