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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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This Notebook

James Schuyler
October 1, 1984

The Same Time

Octavio Paz
translated by Eliot Weinberger
January 1, 1983

Mallarmé and Bataille

Richard Howard
October 1, 1982

The Future of Democracy

Richard J. Barnet
September 1, 1982

The Middle of Summer

W. S. Merwin
July 1, 1982

Pride

W. H. Auden
January 1, 1982

Tide Music

John Ashbery
January 1, 1981

Unusual Precautions

John Ashbery
January 1, 1981