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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Poetry as Written

January 1, 1959

The First Psychoanalyst

August 1, 1956

Walden—1954

September 1, 1954

Closed for Good

July 1, 1949

Men With Their Big Shoes

March 1, 1947

Germany and the Germans

December 1, 1946