From the Archives

The Common Reader

Virginia Woolf in The Yale Review
Claire Messud

Byron and Mr. Briggs

With an introduction by Edward A. Hungerford
Virginia Woolf

"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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An open mouth; Illustration by Laura Padilla Castellanos

September Twilight

Louise Glück
April 1, 1992
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram

Short Talks

Anne Carson
July 1, 1991

"The Waste Land" Revisited

Helen Vendler
December 1, 1990

Ash-Wednesday

Richard Wilbur
December 1, 1989

Fiction

Mark Strand
July 1, 1989

Shéhérazade

Wayne Koestenbaum
December 1, 1987

A. Philip Randolph

Bayard Rustin
April 1, 1987