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Who Was the Foodie?

What it would mean to take taste seriously again
Alicia Kennedy
Interviews

Michael Wolff

Why Trump's Epstein problem won't go away
James Surowiecki
Essays

Trump Is Only a Symptom

The crisis that America can’t change at the ballot box
Rana Dasgupta
Books

Thomas Pynchon Is Angry

In Shadow Ticket, the novelist takes on America’s indifference to history
Richard Beck
Portrait of Miriam Toews on a muted gold-and-yellow background split diagonally
Shakespeare and Company Interviews

Miriam Toews

The author of A Truce That Is Not Peace on how writing resembles loss
Adam Biles
Memoir

The Talented Ms. Highsmith

I worked for the novelist in her final months. I thought she wanted to kill me.
Elena Gosalvez Blanco
A black-and-white photo of Patricia Highsmith smoking at her kitchen table in Tegna, Switzerland
Sepia-toned image of Mary Oliver by the sea
Books

Is Mary Oliver Embarrassing?

Shame seemed like an obstacle to appreciating the poet. Instead, it became the key to understanding her work.
Maggie Millner
Essays

A Unified Theory of the Handbag

Was an accessory the secret to evolution?
Audrey Wollen
Essays

A Moral Education

In praise of filth
Garth Greenwell
Interviews

Aminatta Forna

On suffering, trauma, and resilience
James Surowiecki
Essays

A Common Seagull

On making art and mourning
Sheila Heti
Essays

Louise Glück’s Late Style

The fabular turn in the poet’s last three books
Teju Cole
Objects of Desire

My Face

When I look in the bathroom mirror, I see my past and future selves
Melissa Febos
A Closer Look

Rembrandt’s Reclining Female Nude

What the print reveals about a body at rest
Rachel Eisendrath
Folio

Poems on the Divine

Nine poets at the edge of the signifiable

An Annie Ernaux essay, only in print

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Folio

Everything Always Going Away

Andrew Motion
Folio

A Room in Dumb Bitchville

Emily Skillings

From the Archives

From the Archives

Fall of Freedom

Selections from The Yale Review's archives
A painting of a woman reading at a table.
From the Archives

How Should One Read a Book?

Read it as if one were writing it
Virginia Woolf
Jan Brandes, Ananas, 1785. Courtesy Rijksmuseum, Amserdam.
Poetry

Sunrise

Louise Glück

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What “After the Hunt” Gets Right

I left academia. Luca Guadagnino’s new film reminds me why.
Annie Julia Wyman
A still of Ayo Edebiri and Julia Roberts in Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt
Books

Green, Lively, and Full of Decay

Why Claire-Louise Bennett’s epistolary style is the one for our times
Audrey Wollen
Books

The Richard Siken Effect

How Crush changed American poetry—and found a second life online
Richie Hofmann