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

The Role of the Modern Writer

In his work for The Yale Review, Thomas Mann grappled with an artist’s relationship to society


The Apostle of Love

How Thomas Mann discovered sensual education in The Magic Mountain

A. Philip Randolph

Remembering the civil rights leader and my friend of over four decades

The Common Reader

Virginia Woolf in The Yale Review

"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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Reading and Misreading

October 1, 1975

Pynchon’s Gravity

July 1, 1973

Summer Solstice

January 1, 1971

Impermeable

October 1, 1968

Strangers May Kiss

October 1, 1968

My Cousin in April

June 1, 1967

Four Summers

March 1, 1967

Bounty

March 1, 1965