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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How Should One Read a Book?

Read it as if one were writing it
September 1, 1926

August Night

July 1, 1926

Dedication

January 1, 1925

Let It Be You

January 1, 1925

There Will Be Stars

January 1, 1925

When I Am Not With You

January 1, 1925

I Will Sing You One-O

October 1, 1923

Nothing Gold Can Stay

October 1, 1923