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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The Idea of Perfection

Iris Murdoch
March 1, 1964

New Books in Review

Poems and Books of Poems
Thom Gunn
October 1, 1963

The Public Garden

Robert Lowell
October 1, 1962

Outside Faction

Thom Gunn
June 1, 1961

The Lost Ingredient

Anne Sexton
July 1, 1959

Poetry as Written

Thom Gunn
January 1, 1959