Cover: Antek Walczak, Death (A Cup of Tea), 2017. Image: Omar Olguín. Courtesy the artist and Gaga, Mexico City.
Spring 2026
Volume 114, No. 1
Spring 2026
The Yale Review
Table of Contents
Nonfiction
Do You Actually Have to Finish That Novel?
A critic considers the strange moral pressure we feel to read to the very last page
March 16, 2026
James Schuyler’s Genius
Why our greatest poet of the everyday has become a poet of the moment
March 16, 2026
Solvej Balle’s Philosophy of Time
How a novelist transformed a single day into a radical literary experiment
March 16, 2026
The Body I Couldn't Abstract
Motherhood reshaped how I see shame, art, and the female body
March 16, 2026
Fiction
Poetry
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Do You Actually Have to Finish That Novel?
A critic considers the strange moral pressure we feel to read to the very last page