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
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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The Strangers

Jorie Graham
April 1, 1995
Young James Merrill with his pet terrier at "The Orchard" in 1930.

Cosmo

James Merrill
April 1, 1994

Mad Business

Charles Simic
July 1, 1993

The Supreme Moment

Charles Simic
July 1, 1993

Endings

Mona Van Duyn
April 1, 1992

Fiction in Review

Marilynne Robinson
April 1, 1992
Antoine-François-Jean Claudet, “[Multiple Exposures of the Moon],” 1846-52. Courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

In Those Years

Adrienne Rich
April 1, 1992
An open mouth; Illustration by Laura Padilla Castellanos

September Twilight

Louise Glück
April 1, 1992