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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On Rhyme

April 1, 1999

The Burning Heart

January 1, 1999

The Erotic Philosophers

October 1, 1998

A Fall

July 1, 1998

Look Deep

July 1, 1998

New Constructions

April 1, 1998

The Hammock

April 1, 1998

Air Mail

October 1, 1996

Blood Orange

October 1, 1996

Secret Maps

Holly Wright's Photographs of Hands
October 1, 1996