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Unfathomable Life

As a philosopher, I thought I understood risk. Then I tried to get pregnant.
Anna Hartford

How Emily Wilson Reimagined Homer

Her boldly innovative translation of the Iliad is an epic for our time
Emily Greenwood


The Choice Plot

Why are so many new novels obsessed with whether–and how–to have children?
Sanjena Sathian

10 Ways Ms., Sassy, and Jezebel Changed Your Life!

How contradiction drove fifty years of feminist media
Maggie Doherty
A Closer Look

The First Cover of Ms. Magazine

Why the feminist magazine's inaugural issue remains its strongest
Maggie Doherty

Poems also often seem like shapeshifters to me, in that the leaps they make can transform what you thought you were reading, or writing, several times between a beginning and an end—and in that way they challenge their own borders.

Elisa Gonzalez The poet on sisterhood and grief

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The Nature of Shelter

Brenda Shaughnessy

Lorraine Hansberry’s Queer Archive

The playwright’s lesbian fiction has gone largely unpublished. But she wanted you to read it.
Alec Pollak

Theater Selfie

Gregory Pardlo

In the Shallows

Why do public intellectuals condescend to their readers?
Becca Rothfeld
Black and white photograph of a basketball hoop shot upwards from below

Winners

Merritt Tierce

Paternal Leave

Caroline Gioiosa
TYR Talks

Garth Greenwell on the Ethical Limits of Teaching and Making Art

An excerpt from The Yale Review's Spring Festival
Garth Greenwell
Portfolio

Found Frame Works

Y. Malik Jalal’s wrought portraits of Black life

Naming Joan Custard

Leanne Shapton
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Sheila Heti

Temperatures

Leopoldine Core

Press-Ons

Justin Jannise

Bass Notes

Leopoldine Core

Announcing The Yale Nonfiction Book Prize

A new book prize, co-sponsored by Yale University Press and The Yale Review. Submissions open January 15, 2024.
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Service or Servitude?

The Bear and The Menu give us very different views of capitalism
Daniel W. Drezner

Bystander

Jamel Brinkley

Jamel Brinkley

The writer on perspective and positions of power
Elliott Holt

Oprah Winfrey wears a tiara, standing with cast members of SNL
Television

Has Anyone Talked About How It Feels

Oprah Winfrey’s reign
Kathryn Lofton

My Mother and The Exorcist

How horror reconciled me to loss
Marlena Williams