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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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
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