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The Yale Review’s Political Archive
What six historical pieces reveal about American democracy today
James Surowiecki
The Poet as a Young Critic
In Thom Gunn’s early work for The Yale Review, he valued style above all else
Langdon Hammer
The Role of the Modern Writer
In his work for The Yale Review, Thomas Mann grappled with an artist’s relationship to society
Morten Høi Jensen
A. Philip Randolph
Remembering the civil rights leader and my friend of over four decades
Bayard Rustin
"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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A Courier for Jacques Lacan
The psychoanalyst invited me for lunch at his Parisian apartment—and drew me into his orbit
Eileen Simpson
April 1, 1987
A. Philip Randolph
Remembering the civil rights leader and my friend of over four decades
Bayard Rustin
April 1, 1987
Meeting Matisse
I came looking for the genius behind La Ronde—and found a man sulking over old clippings
Quentin Bell
April 1, 1987
