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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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Byron and Mr. Briggs

With an introduction by Edward A. Hungerford
Virginia Woolf
March 1, 1979

Messages

Mary Oliver
April 1, 1978

Reading and Misreading

Jonathan Culler
October 1, 1975

Summer Solstice

Po Fei Huang
January 1, 1971
John Ashbery, Samos, collage, 2010. © Estate of John Ashbery. Courtesy Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York.

Impermeable

John Ashbery
October 1, 1968
John Ashbery, Palette, collage, 2011. © Estate of John Ashbery, courtesy Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York.

Strangers May Kiss

John Ashbery
October 1, 1968

My Cousin in April

Louise Glück
June 1, 1967

For S., at the Boat Pond

Jean Valentine
March 1, 1967

Four Summers

Joyce Carol Oates
March 1, 1967

Bounty

Cormac McCarthy
March 1, 1965