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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
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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Air Mail

Jeffrey Eugenides
October 1, 1996

Blood Orange

Charles Simic
October 1, 1996

Secret Maps

Holly Wright's Photographs of Hands
Charles Simic
October 1, 1996

Slaughterhouse Flies

Charles Simic
October 1, 1996

The Street of Martyrs

Charles Simic
October 1, 1996

Love Explained

John Barth
January 1, 1996
Graphic with pudding. Illustration by Laura Padilla Castellanos

Cantilever

John Ashbery
October 1, 1995

Gods

Vladimir Nabokov
translated by Dmitri Nabokov
October 1, 1995
Graphic with dishwasher and birdhouses. Illustration by Laura Padilla Castellanos

I, Too

John Ashbery
October 1, 1995

Submitting

Jorie Graham
April 1, 1995