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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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Eliot Among the Ruins

The Waste Land remains prophetic, but what did it foretell?
December 12, 2022

Alice Munro

The short-story writer's prismatic final collection
April 1, 2014

A Curious Cologne

April 1, 2009

The Plains of Troy

April 1, 2008

Two Epigrams, Lovers’ Tears

April 1, 2008

Where You Are

October 1, 2007

A Good Sport

July 1, 2007

After Chicago

July 1, 2007

The Republic of Letters

Edith Wharton at the Start of Her Career
April 1, 2007

Summer Vacation Reading

January 1, 2007